With nowhere to find free streaming music online, turntable.fm launches Piki

With nowhere to find free streaming music online, turntable.fm launches Piki

Do you like Pandora, but hate the fact that it chooses music for you using a lame-o algorithm? Well, you’re in luck! Hypebot tells us that the friendly people who brought you Turntable.fm, the social set list site where you can take turns playing DJ with your friends, are now hocking a brand-new, state-of-the-art social media music listening experience (minus the math) called Piki. It’s not an encyclopedia of Pokemon characters, but rather a new way to listen to streaming music online that draws heavily from the Pandora model, shifting the focus to social-driven song selection (yay!) instead of robot mind control (boo!) or whatever it is they use over at Pan-snore-a.

I imagine most people use Pandora because their friends have shit taste in music and they need a computer to help them find new tunes, but if you want to let the people you’ve collected online to be in charge of what song comes piping into your ear holes next, then by all means sign up to be a beta tester here. An accompanying mobile app (for iPhones) is said to be on the horizon.

It’s yet to be seen if it’s a good idea to go into this market, what with Apple’s rumored upcoming entrance, but as a listener, it’s always good to have options.

• Piki: https://piki.fm

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