Great news for those of you with a Last.fm profile: It is now possible to automatically scrobble your listening behavior on 22tracks.
Have a look in the My22 settings menu (in the top right corner of 22tracks.com after logging in) and connect to your Last.fm account safely and easily. After hooking up your profile, any track you listen to will be automatically added to your personal statistics on Last.fm.
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Our completely redesigned iPhone app is now available in the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg App Store! We’ve also improved the sound quality, added a pause button, provide information about the artist (in landscape view), added a great lock screen view and fixed some minor bugs. Airplay is still found next to the volume slider.
Our iPhone and Android app will be available in the UK early 2012. More countries will follow as soon as possible. Development by FONKmobile, design by Niek Dekker. Enjoy the music!
To all the 22tracks supporters owning an Android device: we’re almost there! Today, on our second anniversary, we’re happy to finally enter the world of Android. Before the official release of the app in the coming week – in the Benelux only, for now – we’d like to invite 222 listeners to test our app.
Update: We got 222 testers! If you didn’t sign up don’t worry, we’ll release the app soon officially in the Android Market!
What, Radio538 on 22tracks? Dutch folk music by Buma NL? Malibu’s best cocktail hits? We’ve seen some surprised reactions in the past months, so we felt the need to clear something up. The homepage, the so called branded playlists, might not always be what you expect (or like). Yes, Radio538 is the biggest commercial station in The Netherlands. And yes, they focus more on mainstream music than we tend to do. But instead of seeing 22tracks as an competitor, and doing all they can to ignore us and keep us down, they advertise.
Advertisers make it possible for 22tracks to exist: free for everyone, without subscribing, without obnoxious popover banners and without commercials between tracks. Brands and festivals that advertise, support our business model. And for the first time ever, it’s even enjoyable! Lots of you tell friends about a playlist by Nike, Reebok, Converse Bacardi, Jameson, North Sea Jazz, Rabat or other great brands and festivals we’ve been working with by using our Twitter and/or Facebook share function. Thanks to these playlists 22tracks is able to pay for the huge costs to offer 22 genres filled with the best new music per city for free!
In other news: since everybody keeps on asking (thanks for that!), our Android app is now in development (by FONK) and will see the light on our second anniversary: October 22nd. A completely improved iPhone app will follow shortly after, and who knows what 2012 will bring on iPad and Blackberry?
Oh yes, we’re so excited and happy with our new website! Our Flash version, built by great Rotterdam collective Venour, was amazing. But we had to move on: we needed to be ready for the future, be more flexible in growing and gaining more statistical information. It’s essential for our future to give record labels and copyrighting societies the best data possible about what’s being played and where exactly. We have to have more control over our branded playlists, to do more amazing stuff and be able to offer more service to advertisers. These brands and festivals keep our website alive, thanks to them we can pay our licenses and hostings costs.
We want you to be able to share your My22 favorites lists, that’s why we had to rebuild the complete system. In July you’ll be able to enjoy the new and improved My22. And what about our artist information block? We’re learning more and more everyday about hundreds of artists, thanks to this feature. But the most important reason of all: we weren’t able to add a city in our previous website. Now we are, and it’s incredible how much people from Belgium and all around the world love the Brussels selections. We hope to add more cities in the coming year. One day, we hope to expand to 22 cities and become the number one global music platform for new music. Thanks for being a listener already!
Of course, a new website brings in some bugs. You’ve got tons of different browsers and browser versions. We’re fixing them one by one. Not our huge 22tracks team, but our one man technical team: Larix. Our hero! With the help of graphic designer Niek Dekker, he created this great new version. But as you all notice: since a new country (Belgium) massively visits us, our server slowed down. We’re adding a new server as we speak with the help of our greats friends at De Hosting Firma and Nedzone. And yes, an Android and iPad app will soon arrive. But just know, that unlike services like Spotify (with 100+ million funding) or Soundcloud (10+ million funding) we’re a self funded start-up. A couple of music lovers and 44 wonderful DJ’s from Amsterdam and Brussels, changing the music industry a bit. Or 22 bits. Amazing bits.
Visit this page if you’d like to let us know which bug(s) you’re encountering. Check out Facebook or Twitter to get all the updates about the music and the website.
Wow! What a party! 22tracks @ Toko MC last night was the shit! We celebrated a new 22tracks year with an amazing line-up: Djef, Job de Wit, Individualism (live), MPS Pilot, Henzel & Disco Nova and Brutuzz at Toko MC. The DJs loved it, the crowd loved it, we loved it. Thanks for being there. And if you missed it, shame on you, here’s some of the livestream footage we managed to save before the fuses blew up and we had to move back to the other room:
Djef | Originals
Job de Wit | Disco
Individualism | Live performance
MPS Pilot | Worldgroove
Henzel & Disco Nova | Brutuzz (until the fuses blew up) Electro | Dubstep
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