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.
We’ve recently launched our My22 function, for those who want to collect their favorite tracks from all genres in both Amsterdam and Brussels in one list. We were curious about the taste of some interesting Belgians and asked them to share their My22 list with us. Take a look!
My22 by: Christophe Lefrog (Libertine Supersport / Jojo Project)
My22 by: Julien Mourlon (Laid Back Radio)
My22 by: Jef Neve (JefNeve.be)
My22 by: Fredo (Avenue L)
My22 by: Bobby Ewing (Discobar Galaxie / Dj Bobby Ewing)
My22 by: Rick Shiver (Libertine Supersport)
My22 by: Deejay Kwak (Strictly Niceness)
My22 by: Sam De Bruyn (Studio Brussel / Samtex)
My22 by: Kirsten Lemaire (Studio Brussel / Canvas)
My22 by: Stijn Maris (Studio Brussel / Beats and Bleepz)
My22 by: Ben Van Alboom (Studio Brussel / Strictly Personal)
Haven’t got a My22 profile yet? Register one right now! Click the ‘login’ button in the top right on our website. Add tracks to your personal My22 by clicking the heart icons infront of any track in any genre.
Finally! Our Android App has arrived and is now available in the Android Market. We decided to release the app for free for a short period of time. In a couple of weeks it’ll cost €1,59, just like our iPhone app, so be sure to get it now. You can submit any problems and errors you encounter over here. The 22tracks Android and iPhone apps are available in The Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg. The United Kingdom will follow this winter, other countries in 2012. The Android app is developed by FONKMobile, design by Niek Dekker.
My22 is back! We’ve totally rebuilt this great way of collecting gems from all genres in Amsterdam and Brussels into one nifty favorites playlist, your personal My22. You can login via Facebook, Twitter or Google. Try it! Or dive into the current favorites of the Amsterdam and Brussels Chiefs Venz and Koen to see how it works. They’ve selected 22 favorites within the 22 genres of their city. Since My22 is a pretty straightforward functionality we decided not to create a huge how-to guide. Be sure to collect and share your own favorites right now by clicking the heart icon in front of any track!
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! It’s been like a rollercoaster ride these last couple of months at 22tracks. So much happened and still so much to do. Here’s a retrospect and update:
Retrospect
Less than three months ago Vincent & Gilles combined forces together with the experts to make 22tracks grow into what it is now: 22 playlists in different genres, each filled with 22 tracks, selected by the best experts in their genre (dj’s and music journalists from Amsterdam). Right now we stream over 100.000 tracks per day. With the knowledge that tracks are only online for a maximum of four weeks these visitors contribute to the online sales of new music by clicking on the shoppingcart to buy these tracks via iTunes. New music is finally being promoted, discovered and bought in an easy effective way. No registration, no hassle.
My22
Last month we launched My22: a new function to create your own personal list of 22tracks favorites. Now two weeks later more than 1.500 users signed up and started making their own lists of favorite new music. Soon you will be able to tell your friends about your expert knowledge by sharing your My22 url.
iPhone app
With a great iPhone app in development (same functionalities as 22tracks.com itself), scheduled for release in early 2010, we’re pretty sure new music will be heard on an even bigger scale. You’ll finally be able to carry the newest music around in your pocket.
Music rights management
So what about music rights management? Well, the only thing we can share about this subject right now is that we are working together with BUMA/Stemra (Dutch music rights association) on a license. As you might have noticed we are against illegal downloads, don’t offer any downloads ourselves and point visitors towards iTunes when they want to listen to the tracks longer than the maximum of four weeks that they are available. Besides that, we think artists should earn that what they deserve for making the amazing music they do. Considering this we urge BUMA/Stemra and the music industry to work on a tailormade license. Only future will tell if the music industry is ready for a new way of music promotion and contribution to music-sales the way we do. We’re delighted with the already received support of big and smaller music labels and will keep you updated on this subject at this blog.
Media coverage
We’ve received a lot of attention from music lovers, bloggers, magazines and other media from all over the globe. From Tokyo to Moscow, from the States to South Africa. Mentioning all these sites in this blog would make this post even longer than it is right now. We are grateful for all the coverage we get. If you haven’t spread the word yet: please do so! Do it for the love of new music!
Meeting us in person
As you might know we organize a get together in MiNiBAR (Prinsengracht 478 / Amsterdam) every 22nd of the month, including this upcoming 22nd of December from 20:00 o’clock. You’ll be able to meet and have a chat with us and some of the experts in person. Besides these get togethers you will also see us at several seminars in 2010 starting with Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen where we will participate at the Cross Media Cafe panel discussions. See you at one of these events?
Yaay! It’s (almost) Christmas!
Merry Christmas! 
Thanks for these great first months of 22tracks and the love you’re sending on Twitter and via e-mail! Enjoy this wonderful collection of songs, compiled by Oscar Smit who has been collecting Christmas music for over 30 years. Oscar hosts the radioshow Beautiful Extremes at Studio 80 Radio and writes for magazines like Gonzo Circus, Subbacultcha and OOR.
Have a fantastic Christmas and NYE! Spread love, spread new music!
The 22tracks team.
We just launched My22! Your personal list of 22tracks favorites which you can access from any computer anywhere in the world. So, how does it work?
You need to register first by clicking on one of the hearts in front of every track in any genre or by clicking on ‘My22′ in the left bottom of the website. After registering you’ll receive an email with activation link. Be sure to check your spambox if you haven’t received it within 5 minutes. Click or copy the activation link from the email in your browser. Once activated you can login and add 22 separate tracks from any genre to your My22. Do so by clicking the hearts in front of the tracks you want to favorite. These tracks are added to your My22. You can use the arrows (up / down) to order your list. Use the delete (x) icon to remove the tracks from your My22.
Since our experts (the dj’s) decide which tracks are hot enough to be featured on 22tracks (they add about 5 every week / deleting the old ones at the bottom of their list) you could be surprised that with logging in the next day some of your My22 tracks are greyedout. You can’t play them anymore but can still buy them via the shoplink (cart icon) or visit the artists their homepage / twitter.
P.S. Yes, we are working on a iPhone app, and yes you’ll be able to access your My22. Release is scheduled for January 2010.
Play your My22 everywhere! Spread new music, the easy way! Please leave comments, suggestions or bugs you came across in the comments of this post by clicking on the post title.
We tried launching it earlier this week, My22, your list of 22tracks favorites. Unfortunately we seemed a bit to eager. We launched it in the midday and decided taking it offline only a few hours later. It wasn’t ready, yet.
The guys from Venour (Steven!) worked around the clock from that day on to finish to what we have now. A good working beta of My22! Here’s a screencapture. Testing goes on up until launch. Tomorrow? Follow us!
From now on 22tracks has it’s own get together, every 22nd of the month, at the MiNiBAR in Amsterdam. Every 22nd of the month from 20:00 o’clock we will celebrate new music and tell you about the latest developments, launch new features, genres, dj’s and anything else that has to do with 22tracks. Together with some drinks, served by yourself from one of the minibars, you’ll be able to ask us (Vincent Reinders & Gilles de Smit) anything you want or give us and the dj’s some love. Be there or be…
On the 22nd of November 2009 we launched My22, a simple new feature to create your own personal list of favorites from 22tracks. Love a track? Add them to your list by clicking on the heart icon and you’ll be prompted with a log-in or register option. From now on you can access your My22 anywhere in the world by simply logging in. Since it’s really new and barely finished in time for the launch it probably still has some bugs. Note that the tracks which are deleted on 22tracks will be greyed out in your My22, don’t whine about the loss you should have bought them, go add some new!
Since you found this blog you probably were at the first 22tracks get together or heard about the *secret* url. Now go spread it for the love of new music!
Music discovery service 22tracks.com, curated by local top DJs from Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Paris, is the perfect guide in a crowded musical landscape.
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