Custom Radio Network Jango, a Poor Realization of a Good Idea
I recently received an email from a lady by the name of Benaz Hossain, who wrote to let me know about Jango, a music social networking site about to launch. After checking out the beta link that she sent along in his email, I was intrigued by the idea. In a nutshell, Jango is a Last.fm type custom radio site that utilizes a fairly impressive internal music catalog. This allows the user to listen to any artist on the site, and then build a social network of friends who are interested in the type of music they’ve been listening to.
This all sounds great until you realize that you’re limited to what Jango has online. More annoying than the available music is the fact that no unsigned artist has any chance of getting their own work on the site, because unless you’re already on Allmusic.com, which is unlikely for even the moderately well known artist, Jango doesn’t want to hear it.
As far as Jango’s launch catalog goes, it’s quite a bit less than impressive. I was able to find bands like The Microphones and Animal Collective, but nothing I hadn’t come across before. Jango seems to be a good idea realized poorly, and although I’ll be keeping tabs on it, I doubt it’ll be worth your while.
