Have you ever wanted to have soundz.fm as a standalone desktop application? Although there’s no way we could have had time to code the application natively, you can achieve a desktop-like experience of soundz.fm. You can do it with use of the app called Fluid, which allows you to create a desktop app from any website. Read more on how to do this:
As you might know, soundz.fm team has been selected and took part at the Mini Seedcamp Prague a year ago. And since our friends over at touchqode were lucky to be selected for the upcoming Mini Seedcamp in Berlin, I wanted to help them with some tips and tricks how to get the most of this wonderful event. I decided this information might be valuable to other startups as well, so here are a few key points we’ve learned, mostly from the mistakes:)
It’s been quite a lot of time since the last blog post and quite a lot of you have been wondering what’s up with soundz.fm, we’ve even received some “is soundz.fm dead?” messages. But today, we’re hoping to prove all of these things wrong.
Good news, everyone! We have partnered with our friends from Radionomy to make Soundz.fm even more exciting. From today, you’ll be able to access the best user created radios from Radionomy and add them to the list of your favourites.
Radionomy is an online service ( techcrunch article ) that lets their passionate users create and run their own private radio stations and broadcast them to the world. Anyone can then listen to these stations, discover new music and be amazed. All of that for free. If this isn’t the new school style of radio then we don’t know what is. Soundz.fm database has been enriched with the top radios created with Radionomy and you, our users, now have a bigger selection of interesting and innovative content as a result.
We hope you’ll enjoy this addition and make use of a greater choice of new unconventional radios. Don’t forget to check them and Radionomy out!
Some time since our Seedcamp experience has passed and we started to have a pressing need to share our recent developments with others and get some constructive feedback. This urge combined with a relative proximity of Vienna meant only one thing. We went to visit a great Viennese hackerspace Metalab and attend their Startup Show-and-Tell. Read the rest of this entry »
A month has passed since our public launch and some serious dough has been flowing all the way to our pockets ever since. Now, many startups make a mistake of missing this opportunity to be real and start misbehaving. Not us. Read the rest of this entry »
We found some spare time while working hard on the soundz.fm iphone application (I know, unbelievable right?). So how’bout some nice eye candy for your desktop? If you’re bored with your current wallpaper, why not change it to one of our smooth, minimal soundz.fm-style desktop backgrounds? Pick from three styles and three resolutions that are available: 1920×1080, 1440×900 and 1280×800. Enjoy and send us some screenshots ;)
Hello everyone! We’ve had quite a few intense weeks lately, with a lot of exciting stuff going on. The Mini Seedcamp in Prague helped us to clear some of our ideas up. It made the decision of what development routes to pursue a little bit easier and shifted our focus on couple of interesting new features. Most recently, we’ve updated the metadata fetching mechanism, so that all the info about songs from every radio is now truly real-time. Read the rest of this entry »
After two-month private beta period in which we’ve received tons of valuable feedback from more than 300 registered beta users, it’s time we go public! Starting now, you can freely sign up for soundz.fm account.
What’s new? Well, quite a lot:) We built even more beautiful and usable interface, added a few features and removed lots of bugs. From now on, nothing interrupts your playback, browser can remember your password and you can browse radios and delete loved songs (in case you don’t love them anymore, you know:).
A big Thank You goes to those of you who helped with feedback, Sorry goes to a few which we haven’t had time to respond, don’t worry, your voice was heard. Your feedback and bug reports are always appreciated, either via our feedback center or directly via email, but most importantly, keep suggesting radios you want to listen to. And by the way, keep your fingers crossed for our Mini Seedcamp Prague presentation:)
We’re proud to announce that soundz.fm made it to top 20 for the upcoming Mini Seedcamp Prague. It will be held on 2nd March at the University of Economics Prague. We’re nothing short of excited to meet the top brains from the region and your favourite online radio application may get some valuable improvements based on the feedback from top industry professionals.
Check out the other finalists of Prague’s Mini Seedcamp or drop us a line if you want to meet in this wonderful city.