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HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by rjtavares »

The name is really confusing. A music app called HipHop that isn't focused in hip hop music in particular? That's like naming a bookstore "Comics" and selling all kinds of books.

Rapgenius may be branching out (and I have the same doubts in them keeping the rapgenius name), but at least they actually started with rap.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by daGrevis »

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening.

That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by papa_bear »

rjtavares wrote: post #3

The name is really confusing. A music app called HipHop that isn't focused in hip hop music in particular? That's like naming a bookstore "Comics" and selling all kinds of books. Rapgenius may be branching out (and I have the same doubts in them keeping the rapgenius name), but at least they actually started with rap.

In your example, I'd argue that hip hop is a more dominating segment of music than comics are of books. Maybe a book store called "Novel" that sold all kinds of books, which sounds less far fetched for some reason.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by bru »

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

However, unlike Popcorn Time, this one is closed source.
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