music discovery

SoundCloud’s TikTok-styled discovery feed is rolling out to everyone

SoundCloud said today it is rolling out a TikTok-styled discovery feed with vertical scrolling and short clips from songs. The music streaming company started testing the feature in March, and now it

Apple Music adds a new algorithmic station to let users discover new music

Apple Music has added a new algorithmic radio station to the app called ‘Discovery Station’ in a way to compete with Spotify’s personalized lists. Apple’s Sweden-based rival se

SoundCloud is testing a TikTok-like feed for music discovery

A lot of music streaming services and discovery apps have followed a formula for introducing new artists and songs to their users: an AI-powered vertical feed that highlights clips of songs. SoundClou

Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed

Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. But users often have to listen to many songs just to find some lika

SoundCloud’s ‘The Upload’ uses machine learning to help you find new tracks

SoundCloud made a name for itself among the landscape of music streaming services as the one where creators themselves uploadedĀ music and other sound recordingsĀ — picking up the moniker &#8220

Spotify seeks more personalized playlists after Discover Weekly finds 40M users

Apple Music, Tidal and, until recently, Spotify, failed at music discovery because they stuck to a blog-style format. But Spotify has cracked the code with a Facebook News Feed-style personalized, fre

Music Startup Spawnsong Wants To Be Kickstarter For Single Tracks

Holy incremental music startup, Batman! Spawnsong is a (very) new music platform startup with a strategy to elbow into the crowded digital music space by focusing on a very thin wedge: individual song

Fantastic For iPhone Is A Smart, Social Music Player That Learns What You Like & Suggests Nearby Shows

<a target="_blank" href="http://grokrlabs.com/">Grokr</a>, a company that had previously been working on a sort of "Google Now"-like <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/11/grokr-debuts-google-now-

Discovr Delivers Total iOS 7 Overhaul For Its Music Discovery App With Streaming And Social Features

Discovr is one of those apps that has managed considerable success on the basis of doing one thing very well, in a number of different ways. The Australian startup behind the Discovr apps, Filter Squa

Seenth.is App Helps Music Fans Wrangle Their Favorite Artists’ Multiple Social Media Feeds

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.seenth.is/">Seenth.is </a>lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite per

Shuffler.fm Brings Its “Flipboard For Music” Service To iPhone, Offers Sneak Peek At Spotify App

As the Web is stuffed with more and more content, we're increasingly in need of good curators to help us discover the things we'll love amidst the noise. <a target="_blank" href="http://flipboard.com/

Social Jukebox exfm Raises $750,000 For Its Music Discovery And Sharing Extension

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/exfm_128x128_reasonably_small.png" /><a href="http://ex.fm/">exfm</a>, a <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/chrome">Chrome</a> extensi