Shuffler. FM: from the ashes of social music service Twones.Shuffler. FM is the latest music site to set its sights on iPad-owner of music fans, revealing a revised version on Tuesday, while submitting a native app Apple to for approval.
The site was born in 2010 from the ashes of social music service Twones. The new site transformed music blogs to streaming radio stations, play the songs embedded in their posts. Today's useful looking site styling itself as an "audio magazine", although with the same core functionality.
New features include the ability to play a radio station from an individual blog, browse the most popular songs and artists in Shuffler. fm's aggregated chart, search for individual artists, and create a personal channel with favorite tracks and updates from specific blogs.
Visit the site on an iPad, and despite a warning at the top of the screen about a missing Flash plugin that is missing, it is perfectly usable. Press a specific channel – for example – and Indie music starts playing, complete with the appropriate record from the whatever blog that tracks buzzing.
Its capabilities for aggregation and curation bring Shuffler last.FM for similar area Hype Machine and RCRD LBL, albeit using different technology. Both launched apps native iPhone this year, and Shuffler. fm after them on to the App Store.
Its iPad app has been submitted to Apple, and judging from the preview version, we have played with, doing a good job of simplifying the site's interface for Tablet usage, throw in YouTube videos alongside blog posts.
Tablets have particular potential as a music discovery service units: Shuffler last.FM accedes apps such as Aweditorium, Discovr music, Hitlantis and Hunter on the iPad, all of which offer various degrees of song or artist recommendations.
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