Listener-annotated audio with SpotDJ
Do you like the way that radio introduces music before you listen to a song? Do you miss that kind of personalized introduction in iTunes? SpotDJ offers a new way to bring the human warmth and information richness of radio intro spots into your iTunes listening experience.
To get started, you'll need to sign up for a SpotDJ account and then download either the Mac or Windows client. After installation, you launch the client and log into your SpotDJ account. The software automatically detects when you're listening to music in iTunes, and adds "spots" between tracks.
If the mood so takes you, you can join in the DJ club by recording your own spots and uploading them to SpotDJ. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the available spots I listened to. SpotDJ offers a star rating system for spots to help promote the better spots and DJs and to put limits on the bad ones.
This is Web 2.0 in all its glory. Social computing applied to iTunes.
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blatz said 5:46PM on 3-01-2007
This is really the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time.
Isn't the point of the whole iPod/iTunes revolution to get AWAY from soulless, "professional" radio-esque listening experiences? I don't understand why you would want to defile your own music with canned "DJ" bumpers and intros. If you're gonna do that, why don't you just listen to the radio (internet or otherwise?).
File under: Web Two-dot-Dumb.
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Zachary Krannert said 9:44PM on 3-01-2007
I thought this was pretty interesting and then I went and listened to some of the spost and they are the most annoying sounding terribly recorded spots I have ever heard in my life. I am glad I didn't install this. I do like the idea though.
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