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Jango celebrates one million users with widget

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

January 15, 2008, 2:10 PM

Jango, the "social jukebox" site which launched in public beta in November, announced today that it has already exceeded the one million user mark. To continue this growth, the company says, it has made available the Jango jukebox embeddable widget which was promised several months ago. The widget, as seen below, contains a scrolling repertoire of artists and continuous free stream of music in a simple skinnable form. A Facebook version of the jukebox will be released next.


While legal constraints prevent many artists from appearing on the site, increased user participation could eventually bring absentee musicians around. Some artists available through Jango, most notably Steve Albini's Shellac, do not even officially sell digital media. This makes Jango an excellent starting point for curious listeners who cannot find a good enough sampling elsewhere.

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By jblade

edited Jan 18, 2008 - 10:12 AM

Great widget, i just hope they put some viral implementation on it, would definitely help the site and really get the word out. Services like Clearspring http://www.clearspring.com/ really can help expand a widgets functionality for free..

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By Galway

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 2:52 PM

Love the site, if only they fixed the bad songs it would be awesome. They messed up queen bohemian rhapsody and tubular bells ... its just not on.

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By PC_Tool

edited Jan 15, 2008 - 8:51 PM

A few linkin park songs were ripped at slower speeds as well.

All in all, I love the service. There are a few glitches, but I see some of it improving every week, so hopefully soon it will be much better.

The widget here has been available for weeks, though, at least through my accounts. It's been sitting on the right side bugging the hell out of me. It'd be much nicer if you could preset it to specific stations of yours instead of having to basically build a new station for each jukebox.

...and Tim, is that your jukebox? I thought *my* tastes were wide ranging... Elvis Costello, Shellac, and Slayer?

Wow...

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By TIM

posted Jan 16, 2008 - 10:31 AM

It is!

..and motorhead lacks an umlaut too, at least in my browser...which bugs me for some reason.

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By PC_Tool

posted Jan 16, 2008 - 2:11 PM

Heh... they finally fixed Motley Crue. For the longest time, it was gibberish.

I thought that was supposed to be motorhead. Couldn't read the name...so unless you are using firefox/flock as well, it ain't just the browser.

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