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Turntable.FM

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What - no talk yet of Turntable.FM ????

Social music sharing/streaming. Awesome concept and have some game like elements as well.

Y'all got to check it out. If you are friends with someone on Facebook who has it already, you can get in on the beta.

So head over to http://www.turntable.fm and see if you can get in!

--*Rob
 
Honestly, I don't see why it is so amazing.

It functions like a fancy interactive shoutcast station, only the station/playlist is programmed by people who most likely have little to no experience on playing music for someone other than themselves. I don't see this being a success in the end. For one, it requires a ton of interactivity to function ideally. Something that people should not be doing while they work, which is when most people will be listening/ being a dj. It can't give you the well-rounded music listening experience that a shoutcast station can offer, and it can't give you what you want to hear like Pandora/Slacker can.

The only thing the site has going for it in my opinion is the interactivity, which a lot of people seem to love. But it is impractical for everyday listening. Perhaps I am alone in my thinking, but I don't want to play a game to hear music.

Not to mention, the DJ/Playlist aspect of playing music on-demand that you don't own costs a lot more in licensing. Substantially more, which makes me believe that a subscription or a microtransaction-like system will be required to survive. There has been a lot of talk about Pandora not being able to make ends meet, but this site will have to pay even more as they will have thousands of dj's to cover as well.
 
Plus you have to be INVITED to boot

That's just like telling people to log onto a chat room during a live show WITHOUT giving instructions as to how to do it because YOU FORGOT TO PUT THE INSTRUCTIONS ON YOUR WEBSITE

And you wonder why there's no "Love" for your station?

NO ONE will wanna mess with your operation

Thanks, but I'll stick with Live365. At least I don't have to worry about GETTING MY ASS SUED OFF by SoundExtortion on there !!!

Just my opinion.....

Cheers :D
 
Well that sure didn't take long. A turntable.fm clone has already been launched called rolling.fm.

I blame this completely on turntable.fm for being... stupid. Even though the clone appears to be Facebook-login only, it seems easier to get invited. Had turntable even been remotely close to knowing how to run a business, they would have known that making a service that is difficult to join would be duplicated by someone who actually knows what they are doing. Turntable built a product that is extremely difficult (and impossible for many) to join. How was this a good idea? No doubt turntable wanted to build up hype, but now those people who wanted to join all this time and couldn't will flee to rolling.fm. Had turntable been completely open, there would not have been room for this service.

As far as usability goes, compared to real services, there isn't any. As many have mentioned, the idea of using it at work does not go over well. I can assure you I would not let it be accessed on a network I have control over. The idea of using it in the car, which many teens and dumb adults alike will no doubt try to do, is suicide.
 
Just to counter the whole "being invited" thing - the reason for that is simply that it is in beta. If you're friends with someone who already has it - you can get in. That is an easy way to scale the addition of new users so you don't get inundated with way more new users then the service can support. Google has piloted this method - many years ago with Gmail and Google+ is also invite only.

As for the service itself - yes - it might not be good for some who want music while at work. On the flip side - it's a good music service while relaxing and web surfing.

--*Rob
 
The problem with the way turntable is handling it is the requirement of Facebook. That alone makes roughly half the nation disqualified. Another problem with that is the requirement of only Facebook friends who are are invited. Unlike google+, if you must have the person who invites you be a friend on Facebook, there is a very small chance of invites transferring between non-friends. In other words, I can get invited to google+ with a simple invite, even from a complete stranger. To get invited to turntable, I could do the same, but then I would have to add them as a friend on Facebook. That could create a security risk as well as be inconvenient. If you notice, it seems I am not alone in my thinking. Google+ invites are being handed out just about everywhere with people they never met. Turntable has not had the same reaction. Not even close in-fact.
 
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