Jogli - The Next Frontier in Streaming Playlists
Listening to streaming music on the web is one of its best daily uses. Over the last several years there have been quite a few sites that offered different services of streaming music. Pandora.com was one of the first noticeable ones that took it a step further and offered you to get acquainted with music similar in style to the one you like, by taking the artist you like and playing for you his/her music along with music by similar artists.
After Pandora shut its doors to the world(i.e. anyone who's not in the US), a new contender proved supreme. Last.fm came to the rescue and provided a much needed alternative to Pandora, with a much better service. No longer do you need to register with the site just to enjoy it to the fullest, and the music selection is huge.
All the while, there have been a few out shoots that sprung up. Musicovery.net and Musicmesh.net to name a few. While Musicovery took the same style of operation of Pandora and Last.fm, it added extra features that are not available in either of its predecessors.
Jogli came to my attention when TechCrunch reviewed them. After reading the review, I had to try it myself.
I found the site to be very well versed in most of the music I was looking for. I think only one band or two were not found, and all the rest were easily brought up to specs.
What's nice about Jogli, in my opinion, is found within two fronts, both important. First, it plays the songs continuously without pausing for you to press play again (just like Last.fm does). Secondly, it allows you to save your own playlists of the specific songs that I like, without any addons or stipulations.
Being able to save myown playlist and build it any time I want is a great service for a person to use. You can build it at home in the morning, and hear it at work, rebuild in the afternoon and hear at home, and so on.
So far, I've come to realize that Jogli is one of the long anticipated music reliefs I was hoping for, but didn't know how to put it in words. If they keep it up, add more features and music into their structure, I am confident it will change the way we stream our music online.
UPDATE: Well, like all new sites and services, Jogli has its share of bumps and quirks. Over the past week, about have of my playlist doesn't play. It's as if the movie was taken down in Youtube, and Jogli haven't yet synchronized it yet with another video. So, as you can imagine, I am back to good-old Last.fm, where at least I know the music will keep on playing.
I do hope they solve that problem. The site has a lot of potential, but if half of my playlist is non-functional, I can't make any use of it, and there is no point in using it.
I will check out the site some time later to see they've solved the problem.
After Pandora shut its doors to the world(i.e. anyone who's not in the US), a new contender proved supreme. Last.fm came to the rescue and provided a much needed alternative to Pandora, with a much better service. No longer do you need to register with the site just to enjoy it to the fullest, and the music selection is huge.
All the while, there have been a few out shoots that sprung up. Musicovery.net and Musicmesh.net to name a few. While Musicovery took the same style of operation of Pandora and Last.fm, it added extra features that are not available in either of its predecessors.
Jogli came to my attention when TechCrunch reviewed them. After reading the review, I had to try it myself.
I found the site to be very well versed in most of the music I was looking for. I think only one band or two were not found, and all the rest were easily brought up to specs.
What's nice about Jogli, in my opinion, is found within two fronts, both important. First, it plays the songs continuously without pausing for you to press play again (just like Last.fm does). Secondly, it allows you to save your own playlists of the specific songs that I like, without any addons or stipulations.
Being able to save myown playlist and build it any time I want is a great service for a person to use. You can build it at home in the morning, and hear it at work, rebuild in the afternoon and hear at home, and so on.
So far, I've come to realize that Jogli is one of the long anticipated music reliefs I was hoping for, but didn't know how to put it in words. If they keep it up, add more features and music into their structure, I am confident it will change the way we stream our music online.
UPDATE: Well, like all new sites and services, Jogli has its share of bumps and quirks. Over the past week, about have of my playlist doesn't play. It's as if the movie was taken down in Youtube, and Jogli haven't yet synchronized it yet with another video. So, as you can imagine, I am back to good-old Last.fm, where at least I know the music will keep on playing.
I do hope they solve that problem. The site has a lot of potential, but if half of my playlist is non-functional, I can't make any use of it, and there is no point in using it.
I will check out the site some time later to see they've solved the problem.
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