June 30, 2011
While our initial test didn't go so well, it's probably important to remember this is still in Beta. Radical.FM says it has pretty much rolled up all the popular music services into one service. It's a tall order when you say you've packaged Pandora, Slacker, Rhapsdy and Spotify into one service. We went on the service last night to test it out and noticed two things right off the bat that switched us right back to Slacker.
Somehow, after deleting a song, it continued to play over the next song. So, two songs were playing at the same time and we couldn't figure out why or how to make it stop. And, the content matching was pretty radical. Jimmy Buffet matched up Foreigner, Al Martino and Andy Williams. So far, Pandora is the best at matching the Jimmy Buffet content.
Radical.FM says a feature called RadCast will permit personal music streams to be shared in real-time, while soon-to-be-released DeeJay allows a user to speak to all who are listening to their RadCasts. Radical.FM is initially offering free personal radio services, with full Play-On-Demand functionality for premium subscribers coming at a later date. To sign up for the free public beta, and giver it a go yourself, go to www.Radical.FM and let us know what you think.
(6/30/2011 12:11:24 PM)
I find it interesting that your article is only focusing on minor Beta development issues.I found the site to be tremendous. It's a remarkable concept. I suspect when people start to get what the true horsepower of the site is Radical will start to separate themselves from the pack.I haven't seen anything else remotely like it.
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