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Posted by Kit on 08-27-2011 at23:03:
Turntable.fm reactions
I go in this room called "Folk/Bluegrass/AltCountry/Etc" on occasion. For about an hour, we were playing just covers. These are two Roe related covers I chose. The room was kind of slow at the time but it picked up later in the day to where there were 30 or so people in there...
Posted by Doctor Love on 08-28-2011 at20:58:
RE: Turntable.fm reactions
Never heard of that. What is it?
Posted by Kit on 08-28-2011 at22:10:
RE: Turntable.fm reactions
It started getting a lot of traction a few months ago, and Lady Gaga and Kanye West both recently made big investments in it.
Turntable.fm is a web site you can log into using your Facebook login ID (or apparently Twitter as well). It's just a giant network of listening rooms (public and private) created by users where people can DJ for an audience. Most rooms are going to have 2 to 5 DJ seats. Turntable rotates between each seat, and while you are in a seat, you play whatever song you have queued up. Once it finishes, it moves on to the next person. Of course, if your song gets enough "lame" votes, it gets skipped, and then you don't play another one until after it rotates back to you. Once someone steps down from their seat, someone else can step up (some rooms have rules though where there is some kind of DJ list you have to get on). There is a vast database of songs that I think are all ASCAP (both of the aforementioned songs are in it). You just search a song in that database, and you can add it to your queue...or you can upload something as well from your computer. I imagine there's copyright issues with uploading someone else's song though. Not really sure how they are policing that. Also, you can't play a certain amount of songs from one artist all in a row. A friend of mine and I found that out when we tried to play a bunch of songs from The Clash and turntable auto-skipped after the 2nd one I think. Some artists have already used it to have listening parties for new material (Guster being the only one I know of).
Anyways, it's kind of fun sometimes and I was addicted to it for a while. I still do it, but not as much as I was a month ago.
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