It’s been a little over a month since we reported on Jango and a lot of exciting things have been happening. Their stable of music has expanded, though it still needs a bit of work, but we’re willing to bear with it as their catalog improves. Since their public launch in November they’ve enlisted 180,000 registered users and 750,000 listeners who have created over 1.5 million custom radio stations.
According to Compete.com, in the month of November Jango had 244,522 users compared to FineTune who had 149,106. Slacker garnered 329, 310 while last.fm and Pandora raked in roughly 1.4 million each. They obviously have a ways to go to catch up with the big dogs, but that’s not too shabby considering they’ve been out of Beta for just over a month.
So what’s Jango to do? Their algorithm appears to work much better (IMHO) than that of the music genome variety, but how are they going to drive those numbers up? Enter the Jango Jukebox. Try not to scoff just yet. Hear me out. The JJ is a slick embeddable widget that’s completely customizable and animated. There’s an interactive filmstrip of scrolling artist images where you can select who you want playing and you can skin them to suit your mood, if you please. It will surely liven up your personal pages or MySpace accounts. Create your own player in just a few seconds or have Jango scrape your list of artists from your MySpace and you’re ready to go in no time.
That’s not to say the Jukebox is perfect. It will surely hit MySpace like wildfire and it’s well suited for that crowd, but I’d like a smaller version that isn’t so in your face. The catalog of music still needs to be expanded, but both of these gripes will surely come to be addressed soon enough. You can get your own Jango Jukebox widget below by choosing the “get your own” button.
Product seems cool.. the Ad sucks
>the Ad sucks
or more precisely, the motion of the demo widget on the page, not really an Ad.
This is a lot cooler than any other MySpace player out there now!
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Hmm, I thought Deezer.com could do all this with their embeddable playlist feature?
E.G. http://www.fuke...streaming-site/
The Jango Jukebox looks killer on my MySpace. I already have a few comments since I added it. The animation is real cool — I like the filmstrip.
Had to drop last.fm — sorry fellas. Jango just juked you out of a listener.
I am not sure what ad everyone is seeing, but I think the chick on the trampoline is a nice touch. That’s a sure fire winner in any campaign.
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I like the look but… their search capability is piss poor. I search for Justice, probably the biggest group in electronic music of 07, and get “Just-Ice.” There is no option for ’search more artists” or “this isn’t what I want.”
Now I’m listening to a hip hop track and probably never coming back to the site again.
What is the deal with copyright infringement here? Could we get in trouble for putting one of these on a commercial website?
So the advantage of this over Seeqpod or Deezer or any of the the other embedable streaming widgets is….? Their flashy look? What if you don’t recognize bands by their pictures? Looks like a lot of commotion over a frustratingly uninventive widget. To make matters worse, their library is AWFUL (so are the others, I suppose…how does one get around that?). I applaud the idea of embedding custom streaming audio anywhere, but I have yet to see a truly worthwhile iteration.
Tip for getting Jango to play just what you want: “Edit” the station, either Trash or Add all the Recommendations until there aren’t any left. For my Blues and Jazz stations I got rid of all the Recommendations after about 50 clicks. For those stations I know everything I want and everything I don’t – I keep one Afro-Latin station free to hear new things I never heard of.
I like using Jango desktop which can be downloaded here: http://samuelha.../jango-desktop/ it is a windows desktop program that let you control jango.com from your desktop. Its great!