Jango (Website)
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Jango is a free online music streaming service that allows users to create and share custom radio stations. Users choose artists to stream, and the station plays music from similar artists.[1] Users can further refine their stations by rating songs and artists in their feed to play less or more frequently.[2]
The service also incorporates social networking by “matching” users with listeners that have similar musical preferences.[3] Users can share their stations or listen to stations created by others in the Jango social network.[2]
The site also provides independent artists the opportunity to showcase their music by recommending their songs alongside that of similar popular artists.[4]
Jango’s business model is derived from advertising revenues and transaction fees from selling music through the site. There is currently no premium services available for the site.[4][5]
Based in New York City, Jango was launched in November 2007[1] by CEO Daniel Kaufman and CTO Chris Dowhan, who were previously the founders of Dash.com.[4][6][7]
Features
- Customizable stations - type in what you want to hear - your station will play the music you want along with similar artists
- Recommendations based on the user's rated songs and artists
- "Play often", "Play sometimes", and "Never play" features
- Choose the amount of recommended artists played
- Android App / IPhone App
- Unlimited Skips and number of stations you can create
- "Radio Airplay" paid promotion service that gives emerging artists airplay on Jango's stations
Limits
- Playback, fast forward, and rewind are not possible.
- Play-on-demand is not possible.
- Banner ads
- Can only cancel personal account by emailing the administrators.
- Can only add up to 5 artists to any station currently.
- Cannot exclude artists, only individual songs.
- Stores your account password insecurely, and emails it in clear-text when you use the "Forgot your password?" function.
See also
References
External links
- ↑ a b [1] Retrieved 2012-09-12
- ↑ a b Jango: Refreshingly Simple Radio CNET, December 18, 2007
- ↑ Jango PCWorld, February 27, 2008
- ↑ a b c Jango AppAppeal, June 23, 2009
- ↑ Jango and Seeqpod Hope to Monetize Music GigaOm, January 9, 2008
- ↑ Dash.com Named Best Shopping Tool By TIME Digital PRNewswire, November 3, 1999
- ↑ Dot-Coms Retain Kanda Software to Rapidly Develop and Deploy New E-commerce Solutions PRNewswire, August 7, 2000