SONGTASTE SongTaste is a music sharing product.

SongTaste listen to each other through music

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When you turn on your computer, the first thing you may do is put on your headphones and turn on the music player. But finding the music you like is not easy, and it may be even harder to find friends who share your musical tastes. We are committed to building a public sharing system that records and analyzes everyone's music preferences, automatically finds songs you may like, and calculates the similarity between any two users. Every day you find new friends, listen to the same music, and even drink the same coffee.

This sounds interesting, but it is not easy to implement. We will work hard to do better.

If you can give everyone more music, then you will get more from everyone:)

SongTaste is an Internet product for music sharing. I think most The students are all familiar with it. Since the early UI was seriously plagiarized from Last.fm, many students labeled it as the Chinese version of Last.fm. At the beginning of this year, they released a new version of ST2.0, which has been completely the same since. Last.fm draws the line!

Because the early version of SongTaste’s Last.fm had too many traces, I have always had serious resistance to them; and just in the past few days, I discovered that there is a discussion on Douban’s group about SongTaste’s appearance rate. Extremely high, I couldn't help but sigh like this: Why is this station not dead yet? So when I couldn't help but turn to ST to find out, I was not disappointed. The new version of ST is more and more similar to the mature foreign Web2.0 style from tone to style. I believe this is not just a deliberate move by the webmaster. imitation, but more from the design trends guided by Network 2.0. After a brief experience, although there is not much qualitative leap in the functions of ST2.0, I can't help but have a good impression of SongTaste.

SongTaste & Xiami/Xiami

These are two websites, but they both have the theme of music sharing, so they are mentioned together.

Let’s talk about SongTaste first. This website still does not have a Chinese name. Its domain name consists of Song (music) + Taste (taste), which is a fairly intuitive meaning. However, this does not affect its success. Now SongTaste is one of the most well-known music sharing websites in China. In the beginning, like many domestic Web2.0 websites, SongTaste's creativity and concepts were copied from abroad. The current music collection community Last.fm under CBS is the source of SongTaste. In the early days, SongTaste was called the Chinese version. Last.fm is because it imitates Last.fm too much. After realizing this, SongTaste deliberately made changes. After several revisions, SongTaste began to rapidly improve towards Douban in terms of interface and functionality. Come closer, its developers are well aware of Chinese netizens’ preferences for self-recommendation, speeches, and groups. Through simple user uploads and recommendations, they have created a music website with a very comfortable experience, which is really worthy of praise. The technical support of SongTaste is Guangguang International, which has strong streaming media technology development technology. The latter's more famous product is fs2you (now rayfile), a network hard disk that few people are aware of. SongTaste's music storage relies on the space of rayfile, so Although cooperation saves costs, SongTaste's millions of music resources are all linked to another site. The risk of losing both is like a sword of Damocles hanging over the users' heads, which is very worrying.

Let’s talk about shrimps. Xiami is a music website with the same theme of music sharing that was officially launched this year. It is still in Beta version, but this website has grown very quickly and gained a great reputation in a short period of time. Different from SongTaste's messy, random and scattered style, Xiami pays more attention to complete albums - music albums collected and produced by users based on their own tastes and preferences. When many white-collar workers start a busy afternoon at work, they open Xiami, click on a favorite album, then minimize it, and spend the afternoon listening to music. At this point, Xiami never hesitates to help users think of the best ideas. Intimate, let go of the selection, comment, collection and other operations. You only need to click, and then quietly listen and do things.

But there is a question: If they are all such users, how can the content sources needed by users be created? So Xiami is building his own set of virtual currency system, working hard to create content - users who upload music, make albums, and write introductions can get a virtual currency called "Huami", and this kind of virtual currency can be used Download high-quality MP3s of 192K to 320K on Xiami - this is quite attractive to music-loving netizens, but it seems not attractive enough because Xiami's current album update speed is still not satisfactory.

Because the traditional record industry cannot satisfy consumers with music needs, and the ambiguity of online music copyrights makes it possible to enjoy music at a low cost on the Internet, music websites have always been a hot spot for entrepreneurship in China. Due to the fierce competition between each other, the music supply model is constantly updated, which also makes the life of music websites often very short. Unlike other types of websites, the music websites that were popular a few years ago are now gone. There is no news, and a music website called Jiujiu China went bankrupt less than a year after it was launched due to the withdrawal of capital from venture capitalists, which is even more sensational. SNS models like SongTaste and Xiami purely rely on users to upload and share music independently. Being increasingly imitated, this has also successfully avoided copyright risks from a certain perspective. However, in the long run, music still needs to be systematically classified so that any piece of music can be indexed in the database, which is in line with this trend. Except for Google, the technology has not yet been developed on a large scale, which can not but be said to be a bottleneck and blind spot in the development process.

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About SongTaste player:

SongTaste player currently has a maximum song capacity of 200 songs. The song name above the song preview (player progress bar Above) Click on the song name to directly enter the song membership page (of course I am also one of the members).

The special thing about the SongTaste website is that some of the good songs included cannot be found on Baidu or Google, so SongTaste provides many people with a good base for online listening of music.

Let everyone enjoy themselves in the ocean of music!