Beats Music

Walt Mossberg hat den neuen Streaminganbieter Beats Music eine Woche lang getestet:

I’ve been testing Beats Music for about a week on an iPhone, and I really like it. I found that its human curation — from Beats’ own editors and a wide variety of outside curators, like music magazines such as Mojo, DownBeat, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone — offered much more satisfying playlists than other services I’ve tried. While other services have playlists from some outside curators, Beats makes them easier to find, and seems to me to make better use of them than its main competitors.
That includes the well-known Spotify service, which recently made its free version less restrictive and better on mobile devices.

Von den vier Modulen von Beats Music ist das vierte das interessanteste:

The fourth — my favorite — is called The Sentence. It lets you combine a location, a mood, the people you’re with and a music genre.

Der populäre Kopfhörerhersteller Beats Electronics steigt am morgigen Dienstag mit Beats Music in das On-Demand-Streaming-Geschäft ein. Besonders in den USA wird Beats Music mit Spannung erwartet. Wired hat sich die Strategie von Beats Music angeschaut:

Beats Music won’t be joining the most-tracks arms race when it launches Tuesday. Instead, the new subscription service brought to you by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre will win converts through a potent mix of smarter algorithms and human curation. From the moment you first open the app, every interaction is recorded and used to determine the next album, playlist, and track to serve up.

The result is more like a personalized mixtape than an online jukebox.

Den Long Tail und die Empfehlungswerkzeuge etablierterer Player, die bereits wertvolle Erfahrungen sammeln konnten, ist nicht unbedingt der beste erste Schritt.… Weiterlesen

Der geplante On-Demand-Streaming-Dienst von Beats Music will auf ‚Kuration‘ setzen. Janko Roettgers berichtet auf GigaOm über die Pläne:

Beats Music, the yet-to-be-launched digital subscription service spearheaded by Jimmy Iovine, wants to edge out competitors like Spotify and Rdio through human curation, but the company hasn’t really explained how this will work.[..]
At the core of the Beats Music experience will be playlists created by both well-known musicians as well as music writers. Musicians are presumably given more of a carte blanche to compile playlists based on the music they personally like, but the company also contracted with a number of freelancers who have been compiling thousands of playlists on an assignment basis.
Freelancers are given access to a special web authoring system that allows them to listen to songs and compile them in specific playlists based on requests from Beats Music editors.