SpotDJ: distributed radio-DJing

Posted on | October 20, 2006 |

SpotDJ is an innovative service aimed at people who are feeling bored by listening to a monotonous stream of playlisted audio-tracks and instead wish to get background-infos on currently played artist & track or just some moody rant - like radio-DJs did back in the day

using the locally installed SpotDJ application, listeners become radio-DJs by easily recording audio-comments on tracks they like. when listening to music, SpotDJ automatically searches for matching audio-commentary from other users, which are than injected into the playlist right after the song. since the service only switched to public beta two days ago, it’s no big surprise that comments appear to bit quite scarce. however, I was able to receive quite good comments on popular artists like Gorillaz, Massive Attack or Jamiroquai - the short clips feature users with an attitude celebrating their idols or recommending similar artists.

currently, SpotDJ works with iTunes (both Mac and Windows) only. according to this TechCrunch-article, SpotDJ plans to extend their service to the iPod as soon as possible.

 

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