Table Of Content
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jango.com
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What is Jango?
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History
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Why should you stream on Jango?
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Custom Radio
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Unlimited Skip feature
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Customizable Stations
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Fresh Music
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How to access Jango?
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Design
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Homepage
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Favorite Songs
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Banned Songs
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Station History
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Content
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Desktop/Mobile experience
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Plans & Pricing
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Suggestions I have for Jango
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Conclusion
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I remember how 5-6 years ago; Jango dominated the streaming music scene with its captivating social media features and artist support. However, things went downhill when the app tried to implement a clunky lyric feature coupled with intrusive display ads. Recently, Jango has seen a lot of backlash from its loyal users and is working to find a middle ground.
Jango quickly reduced its ad-per day from 5 to 1, which was welcomed by users who had been bombarded with commercial assault every five minutes before. Nevertheless, the platform has lost its charm because it no longer emphasizes on quality. Earlier, it was seen as a helpful hand for indie-artists. Today, however, it feels like a marketing hotbed that places too much emphasis on pushing the artist for money. This approach never goes well for any party involved and thus listenership has decreased on Jango Monthly.
What is Jango?
Jango is a music streaming platform that offers a wide variety of genres to its users. It was the first platform with integrated social networking into a radio station, and since 2007, users have been able to listen to playlists created by other users and even share their own. Jango has been very successful since its inception and continues to grow in popularity among music lovers everywhere.
In recent years, the site Jango has built its reputation on providing indie artists an opportunity to showcase their music for free. Therefore, by charging $30 for 1000 plays, Jango would recommend their songs alongside other popular artists. The particular feature of airplay known as the Jango airplay helps independent producers to put their work out there and get heard from the masses. Some of the key features of Jango airplay include: - Song played once within any two-hour period - Once a song is played, it will not be played again throughout the day - Any song with over 50 upvotes will be pushed to the regular playlist.
I love the fact that Jango is not completely commercializing the platform. It will help budding artists, but not at the expense of its regular listeners. Thus, when a particular song is aired and it receives backing from Jango, it'll automatically receive support. In case if it doesn't, it won't be played again, so both users and artists can be happy.
History
Jango began its journey in New York in 2007. It was launched by Chris and Daniel, who were the founders of Dash.com. Jango amassed 200,000 tracks from around 15,000 artists in its library just two years after its launch. Fast forward a decade, Jango has over 70 million songs and over 20 million active users.
Why should you stream on Jango?
Though the streaming services may have lost its appeal in recent years, it still manages to attract over a million users a month. And that's because it still offers quality features that providers dedicated users to tune-in to.
Custom Radio
Jango is really well-made and easy to use.
I have a custom radio called Jango which allows me to listen to whatever music I want. It's really easy to use and makes listening to music fun. You can create your own radio stations, share them with your friends, and even access other people's playlists. Choose your favorite band or singer and Jango will start playing songs from those artists. You can keep refining your stations and songs by playing them frequently. Jango is well-made and easy to use, so it's perfect for anyone who wants to listen to music the way they want.
Unlimited Skip feature
If you don't like a song, you can just skip it as many times as you want. There's no limit to how many times you can skip it. We've seen this feature in AccuRadio except that one comes with a pre-roll ad after every 3-4 skips.
Customizable Stations
Though this feature might sound common, it's not. First, you can ban a certain number of songs or channels which you don't like. Apart from that, you can add up to six artists on your playlist so it is customized as per your taste. My list has Redman, Post Malone, Twenty-One Pilots, Drake and Adele. This allows the service to adapt as per my taste and provide music based upon my preference. What I really like about this service is that you can even find music in which you don?t remember the lyrics under ?Misheard Lyrics? or ?Featured in Apple Commercials? category.
Fresh Music
I have a weird affinity for underground artists. There's something about the feeling of knowing an artist before they were popular that interests me. Jango provides access to such talented artists who can be huge stars in the future. Thus, helping you develop a connection with them before they even hit the mainstream stage.
How to access Jango?
You can access the Jango website by typing the keyword or by using the following link: Jango Custom Radio. Apart from this, you can even download the app which is available on Android and iOS platforms. Simply enter Jango in the search bar and you shall find the official app on the store.
Design
The font on Jango's website is terrible. There are dozens of options that make the website intuitive, but if the first impression is something you use to judge a website then Jango falls short. The most terrible part of the website is the font - it takes away everything good on the site.
It has an intro paragraph, featured artist, album art and lyrics (if applicable). It also has a disclosure box which says ??No playlists generated on this page??. I clicked on a playlist called ??Rock Hits of the 80s?? and it started playing.
I first visited the website and saw a landing page with a blue background - search bar at the center and tiny thumbnails under it. There were eight different categories with small album art cluttered into a thumbnail. Under that, there is a callout which says "Browse over 800 curated genre playlists." Honestly, I felt like bouncing off right away but since I wanted to review the service, I had to stick around. And so, I clicked on Popular Rock Hits and started my journey. It took me to a new page which is a standard format for all the pages - it has an intro paragraph, featured artist, album art and lyrics (if applicable). It also has a disclosure box which says "No playlists generated on this page." I clicked on a playlist called "Rock Hits of the 80s" and it started playing.
Since the website is unconventional, we'll have to dissect it based on different parameters. As soon as I visited the Popular Rock Hits page, I was able to rate songs and create stations as a guest. It allowed me to review everything in the settings menu. Furthermore, I created an account and logged in so I can see if it can keep up with my music taste. Throughout my 2-hour journey on the website, here are a few of the important bits that I'd like to share with you.
Homepage
The app loads a personalized section based upon the category you selected. It'll suggest radio stations, recent stations, and hundreds of other genres which you can access.
Favorite Songs
Using this section, you can access all the songs you've thumbed up. You'll be able to view the video of that song along with information about the artists. At any time, you can choose to add or remove the songs from that list.
Banned Songs
The "Thumbs Down" List. This section will have all the songs that you've thumbs down. Similar to the favorites list, you'll be able to see the information about the artist and be able to remove or add songs to this list.
Station History
Can you review and edit the station's list by using their history? This is one of the primary reasons why I logged in. I wanted to know if the platform can actually track my preferences, and I'm glad to share that it didn't disappoint me.
Content
I love the variety of music that Jango offers in high quality. All of the radio streaming services are trying to outdo each other with their best selection of songs, and Jango has over two dozen genres to choose from. They cover a lot of different music styles, including Rock, Pop, Country, Reggae, World/Latin, Dance, Electronica, Rap/Hip-hop, Blues, Gospel, Film/TV stations and R&B/Soul. Plus they have traditional stations too!
Desktop/Mobile experience
Though the service is receiving criticism, it doesn't compromise on quality. It offers good streaming quality with hiccup-free music from any connection. I was able to skip an unlimited number of tracks - a feature not even provided by premium services such as Pandora or Slacker Radio.
Plans & Pricing
Jango is a free software that you are free to use. It has advertisements which you must watch.
Suggestions I have for Jango
I'd be fine with paying $3.99/month if the developers can remove the ads. The ads along with the intrusive artist promotion just ruin the overall experience which is - unfortunately - great. Another suggestion would be to improve the website- it looks really bad and first-time users might feel rubbished.
Conclusion
Jango's music quality is on par with all the premium music streaming services out there. That said, its interface and annoying artist promotion ads don't help it in any way. Anyways, if you're looking for a free radio streaming service, you should check Jango out at least once.
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