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Twitter Music App Goes Live Today

42 points by jordn 14y ago

buzzkillr2 14y ago
Not live for me, what does everyone else find?
- jvzr 14y ago
  Apparently, it's later today. I guess it's tomorrow for japanese :)
- jordn 14y ago
  Yeah I think Twitter originally announced only that it would be going live today (http://gma.yahoo.com/twitter-music-app-launches-for-iphone-and-web-listen-and-discover-trending-music--120539705.html http://gma.yahoo.com/twitter-music-app-launches-for-iphone-a...) and Techcrunch has paraphrased that poorly. Edit: added 'Today' to title to clarify.
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JimmaDaRustla 14y ago
A lot more details on theverge.com: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4238138/twitter-unveils-new-music-service http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4238138/twitter-unveils-ne... The service WILL launch today - iOS app and website. It will work with Spotify, Rdio and iTunes. I hope at least one of two things happen - they somehow support Xbox Music (ZunePass), but I doubt that will happen since it isn't web based and probably has no interface...OR Rdio gets more music.
ved_a 14y ago
Not live. Techcruch did not get paid properly I guess
pseut 14y ago
I'm disappointed by the description (but I never used wearehunted; if I had I probably wouldn't be surprised). I was really hoping for an easy way to share individual songs over twitter (in a way that doesn't require me or the people that might listen to the songs to have external accounts). Right now I use embedded youtube videos which has gaps in coverage, quality, etc.... Twitter might have the resources and influence to pull something like that off. The flip side being that if it's easy for people to share songs, and there's an easy way to play a stream of songs w/in twitter, then you get "discovery" from curated playlists.
- dave1010uk 14y ago
  I think http://toma.hk/ http://toma.hk/ is the closest to that right now. It would be great to link up with something like http://musicbrainz.org/ http://musicbrainz.org/
kmfrk 14y ago
... in some countries. Right now, the service is available in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Over time, we will bring the service to Android as well as to more countries. http://blog.twitter.com/2013/04/now-playing-twitter-music.html http://blog.twitter.com/2013/04/now-playing-twitter-music.ht...
- ra 14y ago
  Woohoo! For once Australia and New Zealand aren't 3 years later. Well done Twitter (and We are Hunted).
  - varikin 14y ago
    I wonder if it is because Twitter Music is from buying We Are Hunted which, if I recall correctly, was an company from Australia.
- dombili 14y ago
  Well, that's a bummer. Why do they include services like iTunes and Spotify if they were going to limit the product's availability? I doubt that I'd use the service regularly, but I was excited to check it out.
k-mcgrady 14y ago
Playing with it now and it seems pretty good. The trending chart is obviously full of the usual suspects (Psy is #1 right now). The emerging chart is actually quite good. I haven't heard of anyone on it but already heard a few good songs. The suggested chart (based on artists on you follow which the app finds automatically when you link your Twitter account) is also quite good. It's finding me tracks by artists I know but haven't heard in a while and a few new ones too. The play interface is a bit clunky. I've already accidentally switched to the next track and there doesn't seem to be a way to seek so when I went back I had to start the previous track from the beginning again. The app makes sharing what you're listening to pretty easy and includes a link to the track on the music service you've linked your account with (Spotify or Rdio). Search is a bit funny. It says 'search for artists' but really just returns a list of twitter users matching your search term. I could see twitter introducing some sort of artist account. It can't be that hard to verify an artists authenticity through checking if they have music on Rdio, Spotify, or iTunes. It seems like it could be a good service and is soemthing that will be useful to me immediately but they do have a few things (mainly the playback interface and search) to work out. Edit: The website is now live: https://music.twitter.com https://music.twitter.com
- jordn 14y ago
  Is this on your iPhone or on the web? Can you provide a link to it live anywhere?
  - k-mcgrady 14y ago
    On my iPhone. I user a link from The Verge's article: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter-music/id625541612?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter-music/id625541612?mt...
- InAnEmergency 14y ago
  Not sure about the app, but on the web interface you can seek inside a track by clicking around the disc image.
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ishansharma 14y ago
Why all the hype about Twitter Music app? I just don't get it. Can someone please explain? It seems to me like Google Drive all over again, nothing new to see but since its a big company launching something, hype!
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  Have you played with it? Until today all we really new was 'Twitter is launching a music app/service'.
workbench 14y ago
Crappiest launch ever? Public facing landing page for about a week that asks you to sign in then just does nothing, not even an error? Can't even be arsed looking at it now after that mess.
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  From the blog post: "You can download Twitter #music from the App Store today, or enjoy the web version, which will be rolling out over the next few hours: music.twitter.com." So the web component will be rolling out later today. The app is available and working. Edit: It's now working for me https://music.twitter.com https://music.twitter.com
- kmfrk 14y ago
  I also found that infuriating. Maybe management is working the engineers really hard or something. It just seems weird that they couldn't even implement the most basic handling for a view that only contains a single button.
dmsimpkins 14y ago
Can you play full songs from Spotify on the app with a standard Spotify account? Since the Spotify app only allows full catalog access on mobile devices with a premium subscription, it seems strange that they would allow the Twitter Music app to do this.
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codeulike 14y ago
Bands now have a strong reason to get very spammy on twitter. Hope it doesn't go the way of MySpace, which ended up being LinkedIn for people who want to promote their band. (there was a lot of other things wrong with MySpace, but when it just became a bunch of bands spamming each other, anyone who wasn't a band had little reason to be there anymore)
plg 14y ago
Q: do most people really have the data plans on their mobile devices to be able to listen to music all day? I'm in Canada and we certainly do not.
- arihant 14y ago
  Not about Data plan, actually. When I was in Delhi, a $25/mo data plan gave me unlimited data usage with 100GB fair usage limit. I still could not listen to music and video all day - the battery bottleneck is much tighter.
- pseut 14y ago
  Yes: I have wireless in my office and house (and no data plan for my iphone).
  - creativityhurts 14y ago
    So what's the point in listening to music in your iPhone at home?
    - pseut 14y ago
      I plug it into my radio speaker through the aux in cable in my living room.
- rkuykendall-com 14y ago
  The trend is towards capped usage, which is a shame. Unlimited data was the norm in the US until recently. As an American who living in Canada though, you guys are screwed beyond belief. My girlfriend pays for internet BT THE SERVICE. I think the android plan allowed twitter/AIM/Facebook, and BlackBerry was email/bbm or something. That's the kind of thing Americans only imagine as a dystopian future: http://www.microsiervos.com/images/TieredInternet.jpg http://www.microsiervos.com/images/TieredInternet.jpg
- shawabawa3 14y ago
  Yes. I'm the in UK and I have unlimited data (+calls+texts) for £12/month.
janlukacs 14y ago
still not exactly sure what it does. it pulls music from other services based on trending stuff on twitter? who would want that? so much hype for nothing...
raulonkar 14y ago
Amazing app....i am lovin it
blocke 14y ago
Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy. The first, Vine, looks like it'll flame out by the time they ever toss a half broken app across the corporate firewall. Are they running out of cash or something? Their competition doesn't seem to be having a problem with supporting more than one platform. Edit: I'd also like the point out the irony of hitting "Play Full Tracks", picking Rdio, then immediately being presented with a Facebook logo and login option but no Twitter SSO. /facepalm
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  >> "Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy" They do have the website which works fine on mobile.
  - blocke 14y ago
    That's a piss poor Android strategy. And as a side note I'm still getting this on Android: http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png Hopefully it's just a cache issue.
    - creativityhurts 14y ago
      I'm getting that on iPad as well. I guess the site is not ready.
- varikin 14y ago
  Well, that is the Rdio login which supports username/password or Facebook. And yes, that is hilarious.
- mkr-hn 14y ago
  Nothing would please me more than people moving away from mobile-specific apps toward web applications.
  - blocke 14y ago
mkr-hn 14y ago
It won't let me connect my Spotify account. I'm going to assume it's from so many people trying to do the same thing. Looks interesting from what little I can do with it without the connection.

42 points by jordn 14y ago

buzzkillr2 14y ago

Not live for me, what does everyone else find?

jvzr 14y ago
Apparently, it's later today. I guess it's tomorrow for japanese :)
jordn 14y ago
Yeah I think Twitter originally announced only that it would be going live today (http://gma.yahoo.com/twitter-music-app-launches-for-iphone-and-web-listen-and-discover-trending-music--120539705.html http://gma.yahoo.com/twitter-music-app-launches-for-iphone-a...) and Techcrunch has paraphrased that poorly. Edit: added 'Today' to title to clarify.

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JimmaDaRustla 14y ago

A lot more details on theverge.com: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4238138/twitter-unveils-new-music-service http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/18/4238138/twitter-unveils-ne... The service WILL launch today - iOS app and website. It will work with Spotify, Rdio and iTunes. I hope at least one of two things happen - they somehow support Xbox Music (ZunePass), but I doubt that will happen since it isn't web based and probably has no interface...OR Rdio gets more music.

ved_a 14y ago

Not live. Techcruch did not get paid properly I guess

pseut 14y ago

I'm disappointed by the description (but I never used wearehunted; if I had I probably wouldn't be surprised). I was really hoping for an easy way to share individual songs over twitter (in a way that doesn't require me or the people that might listen to the songs to have external accounts). Right now I use embedded youtube videos which has gaps in coverage, quality, etc.... Twitter might have the resources and influence to pull something like that off. The flip side being that if it's easy for people to share songs, and there's an easy way to play a stream of songs w/in twitter, then you get "discovery" from curated playlists.

dave1010uk 14y ago
I think http://toma.hk/ http://toma.hk/ is the closest to that right now. It would be great to link up with something like http://musicbrainz.org/ http://musicbrainz.org/

kmfrk 14y ago

... in some countries. Right now, the service is available in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Over time, we will bring the service to Android as well as to more countries. http://blog.twitter.com/2013/04/now-playing-twitter-music.html http://blog.twitter.com/2013/04/now-playing-twitter-music.ht...

ra 14y ago
Woohoo! For once Australia and New Zealand aren't 3 years later. Well done Twitter (and We are Hunted).
- varikin 14y ago
  I wonder if it is because Twitter Music is from buying We Are Hunted which, if I recall correctly, was an company from Australia.
dombili 14y ago
Well, that's a bummer. Why do they include services like iTunes and Spotify if they were going to limit the product's availability? I doubt that I'd use the service regularly, but I was excited to check it out.

k-mcgrady 14y ago

Playing with it now and it seems pretty good. The trending chart is obviously full of the usual suspects (Psy is #1 right now). The emerging chart is actually quite good. I haven't heard of anyone on it but already heard a few good songs. The suggested chart (based on artists on you follow which the app finds automatically when you link your Twitter account) is also quite good. It's finding me tracks by artists I know but haven't heard in a while and a few new ones too. The play interface is a bit clunky. I've already accidentally switched to the next track and there doesn't seem to be a way to seek so when I went back I had to start the previous track from the beginning again. The app makes sharing what you're listening to pretty easy and includes a link to the track on the music service you've linked your account with (Spotify or Rdio). Search is a bit funny. It says 'search for artists' but really just returns a list of twitter users matching your search term. I could see twitter introducing some sort of artist account. It can't be that hard to verify an artists authenticity through checking if they have music on Rdio, Spotify, or iTunes. It seems like it could be a good service and is soemthing that will be useful to me immediately but they do have a few things (mainly the playback interface and search) to work out. Edit: The website is now live: https://music.twitter.com https://music.twitter.com

jordn 14y ago
Is this on your iPhone or on the web? Can you provide a link to it live anywhere?
- k-mcgrady 14y ago
  On my iPhone. I user a link from The Verge's article: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter-music/id625541612?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter-music/id625541612?mt...
InAnEmergency 14y ago
Not sure about the app, but on the web interface you can seek inside a track by clicking around the disc image.
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ishansharma 14y ago

Why all the hype about Twitter Music app? I just don't get it. Can someone please explain? It seems to me like Google Drive all over again, nothing new to see but since its a big company launching something, hype!

k-mcgrady 14y ago
Have you played with it? Until today all we really new was 'Twitter is launching a music app/service'.

workbench 14y ago

Crappiest launch ever? Public facing landing page for about a week that asks you to sign in then just does nothing, not even an error? Can't even be arsed looking at it now after that mess.

k-mcgrady 14y ago
From the blog post: "You can download Twitter #music from the App Store today, or enjoy the web version, which will be rolling out over the next few hours: music.twitter.com." So the web component will be rolling out later today. The app is available and working. Edit: It's now working for me https://music.twitter.com https://music.twitter.com
kmfrk 14y ago
I also found that infuriating. Maybe management is working the engineers really hard or something. It just seems weird that they couldn't even implement the most basic handling for a view that only contains a single button.

dmsimpkins 14y ago

Can you play full songs from Spotify on the app with a standard Spotify account? Since the Spotify app only allows full catalog access on mobile devices with a premium subscription, it seems strange that they would allow the Twitter Music app to do this.

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codeulike 14y ago

Bands now have a strong reason to get very spammy on twitter. Hope it doesn't go the way of MySpace, which ended up being LinkedIn for people who want to promote their band. (there was a lot of other things wrong with MySpace, but when it just became a bunch of bands spamming each other, anyone who wasn't a band had little reason to be there anymore)

plg 14y ago

Q: do most people really have the data plans on their mobile devices to be able to listen to music all day? I'm in Canada and we certainly do not.

arihant 14y ago
Not about Data plan, actually. When I was in Delhi, a $25/mo data plan gave me unlimited data usage with 100GB fair usage limit. I still could not listen to music and video all day - the battery bottleneck is much tighter.
pseut 14y ago
Yes: I have wireless in my office and house (and no data plan for my iphone).
- creativityhurts 14y ago
  So what's the point in listening to music in your iPhone at home?
  - pseut 14y ago
    I plug it into my radio speaker through the aux in cable in my living room.
rkuykendall-com 14y ago
The trend is towards capped usage, which is a shame. Unlimited data was the norm in the US until recently. As an American who living in Canada though, you guys are screwed beyond belief. My girlfriend pays for internet BT THE SERVICE. I think the android plan allowed twitter/AIM/Facebook, and BlackBerry was email/bbm or something. That's the kind of thing Americans only imagine as a dystopian future: http://www.microsiervos.com/images/TieredInternet.jpg http://www.microsiervos.com/images/TieredInternet.jpg
shawabawa3 14y ago
Yes. I'm the in UK and I have unlimited data (+calls+texts) for £12/month.

janlukacs 14y ago

still not exactly sure what it does. it pulls music from other services based on trending stuff on twitter? who would want that? so much hype for nothing...

raulonkar 14y ago

Amazing app....i am lovin it

blocke 14y ago

Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy. The first, Vine, looks like it'll flame out by the time they ever toss a half broken app across the corporate firewall. Are they running out of cash or something? Their competition doesn't seem to be having a problem with supporting more than one platform. Edit: I'd also like the point out the irony of hitting "Play Full Tracks", picking Rdio, then immediately being presented with a Facebook logo and login option but no Twitter SSO. /facepalm

k-mcgrady 14y ago
>> "Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy" They do have the website which works fine on mobile.
- blocke 14y ago
  That's a piss poor Android strategy. And as a side note I'm still getting this on Android: http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png Hopefully it's just a cache issue.
  - creativityhurts 14y ago
    I'm getting that on iPad as well. I guess the site is not ready.
varikin 14y ago
Well, that is the Rdio login which supports username/password or Facebook. And yes, that is hilarious.
mkr-hn 14y ago
Nothing would please me more than people moving away from mobile-specific apps toward web applications.
- blocke 14y ago

mkr-hn 14y ago

It won't let me connect my Spotify account. I'm going to assume it's from so many people trying to do the same thing. Looks interesting from what little I can do with it without the connection.