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I guess the market is saturated with similar apps. It's getting all the listeners and bands both to come together on one platform which is the difficult part. It's also a chicken and egg problem.

I do love thesixtyone.com, i thought they'd done a good job for discovering new music... until their new UI design.

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Post by willphipps »

sidmitra wrote: post #2

I guess the market is saturated with similar apps. It's getting all the listeners and bands both to come together on one platform which is the difficult part. It's also a chicken and egg problem. I do love thesixtyone.com, i thought they'd done a good job for discovering new music... until their new UI design.

Cheers, Sidmitra!

OK, so the market is saturated with similar apps. - however - it is still very early days with regards to internet radio and there is still plenty of opportunity and room for innovation and indeed, profit. More so, if done in a collaborative, non profit kind of way...if you get me..

Existing apps. are by no means perfect - Last.fm makes very obvious recommendations - I type in Jimi Hendrix and it plays me The Doors. I want it to play me Space Guitar by Johnny Guitar Watson but I didn't know that. Or perhaps some 60's Jap Rock...

So there's that and there's also the apps. that just focus on indie/unsigned music. I think they are leaving out a lot of the good stuff by limiting themselves to offering just unsigned material.

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