FYI, the term "social listening" has an entirely different meaning in the marketing industry (it means social media monitoring). So some people might get confused as to what you're showing.
This is by far my favourite new app, I love finding out about new music from all sorts of people, and it's great to just put on when you have some great DJs in the room.
One suggestion I have is to have some sort of "Schedule" (or "Happy Hour") function for the rooms. Because the issue I have is when I log on and check out if there are rooms I like are active, most of the time there wont be any DJs in the room. I'm not usually going to hang out in a room by myself (nor I expect other people to wait around for more people to join). So, if we had a function where admins/mods of rooms can send out a message/email to people who have favourited the room to "come back at 8:00PM EST for Happy Hour". And also have schedule messages for people in the room so they know when to come back and there will be more people.
Could definitely be one of the /bot functions too (I saw one of the EDM rooms doing this but it requires some organization by the admin's part, which most people wont bother with).
For somebody who consumes as much music as I do, this is one of the greatest things ever created to discover new music.
Especially...if you get a handful of like minded individuals in a room putting their minds together to make the best set ever.
I usually listen to about 8 hours of music a day on the application and have added around 4,000 songs to my Spotify Library. Most of the songs are songs that I have never heard before.
I also think that tying it to the Spotify Premium subscription is important so that the site can avoid any issues with labels.
In the past there was another site like this called turntable.fm while it was shut down I gained a bunch of friendships, and I could honestly say it is the reason why I became a developer.
In other words its awesome.
This is awesome. I was a DJ back in the early 2000s using Shoutcast [0] to stream. A lot of issues with obtaining music and obviously streaming rights.
This is so easy to whip up your own station with a legit music source. Barrier to entry is much lower than having to figure out how to configure all of the software and connect to the actual stream server. The DJ software had some cool features like fade-in/fade-out, etc. but the music and the DJ's ability to speak to the audience were the important part. The chat element here could replace that. Something like this seems like it could be the next evolution in online radio.
Awesome work!
I remember this from a recent discussion about cross-platform mobile stacks, so I now know it is built on React Native :) Great work!
I'm not sure how the licensing works, but would it be possible to allow guest users to act as a "speaker" - and only require Spotify Premium when upgrading to DJ features?
If I have a group of 100 people in a similar physical location, I'd like to be able to have 100 speakers in sync. Requiring them all to create an account, let alone purchase Spotify Premium, is unfortunately too much to ask.
If you have some control over the payment model, I'd even be interested in paying an extra fee as a DJ in order to enable more remote speaker connections.
Definitely going to check this out. I'm a big fan of social listening sites. I run a bot in a room on Dubtrack.fm[1]. Before Dubtrack we were on Plug.dj. I love that you have Spotify integration.
Any chance you'll add the ability to queue up YouTube and/or Soundcloud songs?
First of all - awesome app will give it a good testing this week! I've been using Discord's party-listen (or whatever it's called feature). Spotify enforced some random restrictions like - if I'm talking for more than 30 seconds then it assumes that I'm illegally streaming to music so it pauses the song immediately.
Have similar silly restrictions been enforced on JQBX to your knowledge?
This is awesome! I'll use it at work with colleagues. We have tried https://www.ampme.com, which I really didn't like. It was more targeted at playing exactly synchronised on the speakers of multiple devices to boost the volume (and at least when I tried it, it was mobile only).
Great work! Looking forward to using it!
That looks amazing. Does anybody remember grooveshark? It had their own little group of popular DJs who would live-edit their playlists and thousands would listen in. This leads me to the question: Do I need to know the person(s) I'm listening with or can someone actually generate a following through your platform? Also, what do you need camera access for?
I’ve been using JQBX for a month or two - I hang out in The Jungle. Very nice software; congrats @jqbx_jason. The bots are fun.
I have struggled to log in on mobile, it would be great to integrate Facebook’s official log-in API for those of us with FB-based Spotify accounts. Otherwise the process is quite painful.
I've been on JQBX just about every day for a while now. The sense of community on this site is amazing.
I've been a fan and user for over a year. JQBX is a great replacement for turntable.fm
I love this app!
My only problem is that it’s too fun — I have a hard time using it at work because I get too engaged chatting, saving great tracks and adding my own to a channel.
Next I plan to use this at the gym to keep myself and a few friends workout playlist in sync.
As an aside, I love the color design of this site. It's dark, which I prefer, but it has a lot of color. The colors might be a bit.. awkward, but for some reason I still love them.
This is awesome for a silent disco home party! Or silent disco’s for larger areas where connection is an issue
With that in mind; maybe voting for the next song instead of current?
Been addicted for a few months now, really great to see how it's shaping and developing in this rich community. Hope it sticks around for a long time.
I remember finding this few weeks ago, and one thing I found lacking was a way for multiple users to add songs to the same queue... Is it possible now? Or at least are there any plans for it?
(in case it's not clear what I mean: IIRC, last time I checked, if you had multiple DJs only the songs from the first DJ would play, followed by all the songs from the second one and so on)
How do I import my already created play list from my account. I can't seem to see the playlists I'd like to play as a DJ.
It's a really good app. Surprisingly addictive and fun. Come hang out in the jazzcats room!
I really love this concept. I usually use YT recommendations to find new music, but it's too narrow-minded to come up with things which are totally new to me. Dumb noob question - would making this app "Spotify agnostic" amount for a complete rewrite?
I love this! But I get "Sorry <song> not available in your country" for many songs even though I can play them on spotify directly. Some of these songs are actually added by me when DJ-ing. Any reason for this?
The download for macos seems to be a bit broken, it's meant to be going to download.jqbx.com but it's not redirecting. I think it might be a cert issue (firefox dev edition). Looks cool though, going to give the web app a go.
Squarepusher, avalanches? Damn, how well do you know me? I gotta try this later.
Very cool! I'm impressed! Even just as a replacement for the Spotify UI.
Will this work with / any plans to make it work with a Sonos speaker?
Any way to create a general front-end that can hook into multiple streaming services? This looks cool, but I'm on Google's whatever-they're-calling-it-now music subscription plan.
I'm having an issue where songs will play but it randomly moves to the next song without finishing the current song. Is anyone else seeing this? Is there a Spotify setting I need to change?
Any particular reason this can't work with Spotify free account?
I could see this being super popular, looks really well done!
Great but you are dependent on Spotify. I don't use spotify, I often listen off youtube for example and it would be good fallback.
Any plans to support Apple Music?
The ghost of TurnTable.fm!
Chinese app Xiami already has this
Hi everyone, I posted a comment a little while ago that gained some traction so I'm posting my solo project here. JQBX is a social listening platform that lets you listen to music in real time with anyone anywhere. You can also chat, vote, and save tracks that other people have played. JQBX uses the Spotify as the backbone for all this so you need a Spotify Premium account to use the app. Happy to field any technical questions anyone has. Thanks!