Over the past few months, a gem by the name of turntable.fm has been stealing hours and hours from our productive lives. Turntable.fm is a hybrid form of web-based browser, meshing social media and music.
When one visits the site, they will find hundreds of rooms varying in name, usually depicting the style of music being played inside. Once inside, the party begins. You are submerged into a room filled with endless beats and a social experience that of a house party.
At any given time, 5 members in the room can DJ to select tracks to share with the group. The party can vote the track up if it’s “Awesome” or down vote it if it’s “Lame”. Once voted up, the DJ gains a form of turntable.fm street cred by earning DJ points. If voted “Lame” by enough room members, the song gets skipped and the next DJ picks the track. Rinse and repeat.
If the opportunity arises that you get to DJ (It’s a dog fight to get a spot!), you can share personal tracks compatible with turntable or use their search engine powered by Medianet. You customize a playlist to share with the room. Hopefully, if your taste doesn’t suck, you’ll gain DJ points, which unlock different avatars to select as your turntable persona.
Also, members utilize turntable.fm to discover new music. If a DJ plays a unique track, room members can save the track to their turntable.fm playlists, find it for purchase on amazon.com or iTunes, find related songs on last.fm and locate it on Spotify and Rdio. It’s really quite the quintessential experience.
Currently in a beta stage, turntable.fm is accessible only through friends on your Facebook. If one of your Facebook friends is on turntable.fm, you’re allowed to participate. Kind of a friend-of-a-friend idea. Bugs and glitches still line the programming but are being filtered out as time passes.
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