[jechen]

Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. For the avid listener, there are hundreds of quality music blogs dedicated every niche out there. It seems like Twitter decided they wanted a slice of the pie- I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter (if it's even part of the core product at all). That being said, I hope they prove me wrong.

[kristopolous]

There is a group of highly dissatisfied users (like me) who have found that current solutions are really inadequate. You'll have to trust me on this.

Using suggestion models based on curated reputable crowdsourcing as opposed to simply volume of popularity is a way around this.

Here's a contrived example; say I'm looking for something that goes well with say, Lonnie Smiths' 1980 "In the Park" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPSf-VoDZk) and say, Jon Lucien's Listen Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bm7c0z_0ws) and let's toss Fela Anikulapo Kutis' Witchcraft in there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31cGWpe8_L0).

There is no software in the world that can curate music like that based on predictive modeling that I've seen.

I've been trying to make one for years that can span decades, nations, and genres like that.

I've found that if I aggregate a selective circle of people than I can get there. But that's the only way I've found so far.

Ok, USE CASE 2.

What's Justin Bieber or Keith Richards currently listening to? What about a talent scout at BMI? What if you could follow and tap into those people's personal playlists like twitter allows you to tap into what's on their plates for dinner and other personal things?

And I mean right now. Shania Twain hits play and it sends that to the server. Thousands of users world-wide tapping into her personal radio station immediately get a non-time-shifted instant feedback.

I think it would be compelling and addictive.

It's the classic celeb allure that's been twitter's mainstream pot of gold.

[devonbarrett]

take a look at grooveshark its the best social music experience I've had

[jfb]

It will fail as all other attempts at algorithmic music discovery have failed. Curation (via blogs, &c.) is still by far a better experience.

[bcoates]

I'm listening to Pandora right now (I even pay for it!), does it not count?

[MayankJ]

I am not sure if I would say algorithmic music discovery have failed but yes, I would pick curation over algorithms any day. It just gives me more context.

[k-mcgrady]

We haven't even seen the service yet. I think there will be a lot more human curation than algorithmic discovery.

[notatoad]

>I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter

obviously no product is going to fit everybody's use case. but if you look at the number of links to music videos on youtube that are passed around every day, it's pretty clear that music on twitter fits a lot of people's use case.

[Splendor]

I use Spotify as my primary music listening service and their music discovery is terrible. I'll gladly listen to Spotify through Twitter if it means better charts of new music, popular music, etc.

[onedev]

Use Spotify for music library management and access across all platforms. Use Pandora for music discovery.

Problem solved!

[redditunes]

Hey everyone. I made the site http://www.redditunes.com. I'll be honest, there are some major flaws but you should check it out sometime if you want to try something different!