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Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example
In Playlist, you can find others who share your musical tastes and join group chats where you listen to playlists together in real time
Petersen, both Stanford engineers and serial entrepreneurs
Katz previously co-founded AdSpace Networks and another social music platform, Jam Music
She also was a founding executive team member at Photobucket, and founded a company called Project Playlist, which was like a Google search
for music back in the Myspace era.Peterson, meanwhile, has 35 patents and more than a decade of experience in digital music
later sold to Nvidia for $357 million
period, Playlist (which was listed under a different name on the App Store), saw a huge number of engagements as a result of its real-time
It also leverages machine learning for its social recommendations, as well as collaborative playlists, large-scale group chat, and
social aspects of the app involves a following/follower model, and presents playlists from the people you follow in your home feed, much
like a music-focused version of Instagram
A separate Discover section lets you find more people to follow or join in other popular listening and chat sessions.At launch, the app has
a catalog of more than 45 million songs and has a music license for the United States It plans to monetize through advertising.The core
But the app sometimes overcomplicates things, it seems
For example, importing a playlist from another music app involves switching over to that app, finding the playlist and copying its sharing
URL, then switching back to Playlist to paste it in a pop-up box
It then offers a way for you to add your own custom photo to the playlist, which feels a little unnecessary as the default is album
making it harder to find.The player interface also offers a heart, a plus (+), a share button, a mute button and a skip button all on the
hard to argue with the results
available Playlist app, which has some 80K installs as of last week, according to Sensor Tower data.The company also plans to leverage the
assets it acquired from the old Project Playlist, which includes some 30 million emails, 21 million Facebook IDs and 14 million Twitter IDs
raised $5 million in funding (convertible notes) from Stanford StartX Fund, Garage Technology Ventures, Miramar Ventures, IT-Farm, Dixon
Doll (DCM founder), Stanford Farmers Angels, Zapis Capital and Amino Capital.The Palo Alto-based company is a team of six
full-time.Playlist is a free download for iOS
An Android version is in the works.
