![]() ![]() ![]() Bop does not source local files and is purely a web-only service, although mobile is in the road-map.īop also gives free analytic reports to artists who share Bop links. We are technically first in line for many of these APIs.”ĭaredia also indicated that Bop is in talks with some major home audio companies. “We plan to integrate more major services when their APIs become ready for us. Bop is in conversation with “the majority of the major music services” says Daredia. “When we do albums, we don’t want to clutter the users view with multiple versions of the same album.” By applying the same deduplication technique Bop uses with songs to albums, Bop could potentially provide a clean, chronological list of albums as opposed to a confusing feed of reissues, clean versions, etc.Ĭurrently, Bop supports Rdio, Beats, Spotify, Deezer, YouTube and SoundCloud, and displays iTunes, Amazon and Google buy links next to songs. While Bop doesn’t have album pages yet, Daredia says they are on the roadmap. For example, audio playback on Rap Genius is powered by Bop.fm. And the service could be a smart tool for digital publishers who want to share songs and playlists their whole audience can hear - not just those that subscribe to one service - with a far more attractive embed than a YouTube video. “There is no single source for the zeitgeist,” he cited.īop is positioning itself to be that single source. The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere Jones left some songs off his “best music of the year so far” playlist, simply because they weren’t on Spotify. Users can also import, continuously sync and build off of existing playlists from other services to Bop. ![]() That heavy lifting includes the parsing, indexing, normalizing and deduplication of many data sets, as just one song can have a dozen different entities between album, single, explicit, clean, remix, international or U.S. “We do all the heavy lifting under the hood and just expose the nice clean song.” says Daredia. What if that YouTube video gets taken down? Bop says it will automatically find and replace it with a new source. Because Bop’s “catalogue” of songs consists of anything on Rdio, Beats, Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud (and Deezer for some international users) Snoop could create a playlist of songs from a variety of different of sources: “Nothin’ But a G Thang” (YouTube), the Four Tex remix of Sia’s “Chandelier” (SoundCloud) and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” (Spotify) could all co-exist on one (weird) embeddable Bop.fm playlist. Dre’s “Nothin’ But a G Thang” to a Spotify or Beats playlist, he can’t that song isn’t in either services’ catalogue. In one example Daredia gives, if Snoop Dogg (a Bop.fm-verified artist) wants to add Dr. For now, the verified artists are hand-picked, but Bop might open up the feature in the future. In an interview with Billboard, Daredia says the incentive for artists to use Bop is the ability to share one link on their social media accounts that will work for anyone, allowing their work to be accessed by the widest variety of listeners. In addition, select artists - including Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg, Tiesto, Wiz Khalifa, Depeche Mode and Christina Perry - now have verified pages with playlists, tour dates (powered by Songkick) and song lyrics (powered by Lyricsfind). Investors Put $2.4 Billion Into Music In 2013, Streaming Tops List According to Bop, founded by CEO Shehzad Daredia (formerly of Billshrink, Rho Ventures and Kayak) and CTO Stefan Gomez (formerly of Science and Billshrink), the funding will allow the team of six full-time employees to hire more engineers and expand business development efforts. “ reminds me of how Twitter simplified the sharing of information and opinion,” notes Charles River Ventures’ George Zachary, an early Twitter investor, in the company’s press release.īop isn’t sharing how many individual users have signed up yet, but the service has processed more than 50 million song plays since opening to the public in December 2013. Today, Bop announced a $2 million round of funding from Charles River Ventures and launched verified artist pages. The Y Combinator-backed startup lets users share universal song links and playlists that work for everyone by automatically detecting the user’s best available source. The creators of Bop.fm want to offer a solution.īop.fm CEO on Creating a Universal Platform For Music Services Spotify Content Chief Ken Parks Discusses Artist Royalty Payments Controversy, More with… ![]()
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