Songza A Truly User Controlled Free Internet Radio

Well I started off looking into a service I used to really enjoy called AmieStreet.com wondering if they had plans to enter into the mobile market anytime soon. Sadly it looks like that will not be happening at this time but the other service their company is evolved with Songza.com that is hoping to release both iPhone & Android apps but could not say much about firm plans on that topic. Having been using the service now for a few hours I'm rather impressed with the service and I for one will be waiting for the mobile app and hoping to see the Android one release first or along side the iPhone app. The service unlike most internet radio stations only plays songs you select for it to play not a random music selection basically giving you a streaming playlist. Sadly right now the stations are only in public form but they said that they are adding private stations soon enabling you to have playlist that are locked just to you and who ever you want to help add to it.

Correct. It only plays the songs that you have added to the list, making it the most user controlled free internet radio station currently online. Right now all stations are public so anyone can add a song to any station. We are about to add multiple features that will give you the ability to manage your station, who can add songs, deleting songs, and whether it is public or private. Right now, if you make a station and share it with friends, say the Caleb rocks station, it is unlikely that a lot of people will search for that exact station and start adding songs to it, so in that sense it's private.

I will be looking forward to those features as well as the mobile app but if the team working on this does this right this could be the best streaming service out there. And the community feature seems like a great idea and I for one could see this being a very useful tool for say a church service background music before and after service, and for other group and club meeting or just in the office. Hoping that there will be some way to enable scrobbling on the service something a lot of streaming service either over look or avoid as a possible competing service.

And just for fun people here is a station that I had users send me sujections for a Android Radio Station its a public station so feel free to help add tracks to it that make you think Android lets see what we can get going.

TekHawk Android Beats Station

Their Press Release:

"Look Mom, No Algorithms!”

Songza Launches Shared Radio:

Create a station, build it with friends, listen together

August 3, 2010 (Long Island City, NY) – Songza.com released today the simplest way for people to create their own radio stations, for free.

The new Songza.com gives users the ability to collaborate with friends, family, co-workers or even strangers to create the perfect shared station for any occasion, with a library of over 8,000,000 songs to choose from.

“Much of the joy we get from music comes from how it connects us to the people around us,” said Elias Roman, CEO of Songza. “Songza is unique in making it easy for people to connect using shared, collaborative radio stations. We believe this makes for a far more social and relevant experience than radio based on 'experts' or algorithms analyzing tone and timbre.”

Creating your own radio station on Songza is quick, free, and easy, and so is getting your friends and colleagues to add songs and help you improve it. Songza gives communities of any size and type—from classmates to co-workers to party-goers—a free and legal way to create the most relevant radio stations.

After serving more than 225,000,000 song streams in just over two years, the release marks an exciting new chapter in the company's history. The new Songza.com consolidates three streaming services (Songza Sets, Songza Radio, and the original Songza.com), incorporating many of their features and members as it moves forward pioneering social radio.

The new Songza is currently in beta with many features yet to be released, including mobile applications. The non-interactive radio service is DMCA compliant and ad-supported.

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