Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Baboom: it's serious

Russell Brown

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:47:18 +1200

On Friday EDM.COM signed up with 10,000 artists and 8.8 million followers and have started putting hundreds of releases live on their page

Nice work. That's a biggie.

Mikee Loop

Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:41:52 +1200

BABOOM launched Monday with a call to artists for content and we pretty much launched straight after beta that trusted artists were involved in. Since launch hundreds of independent artists have signed up on their own accord and dozens of labels such as Darla and BBE are testing BABOOM with…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:51:32 +1200

silverback chair?
baboon
You 'Bush Doctors', eh...
A mammalian audio system descended from the Grea Tapes?
I wonder if they have a discount for stuff from Mandrill Studios?

:- )

bob daktari

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:26:25 +1200

There is an offline mode – maybe only on the mobile app? I’ll have to go and look again.

on my mobile devices baboon automatically downloaded the tracks I'd bookmarked , or whatever they all it, on desktop – this was most excellent for me (sure others will hate that)…

Russell Brown

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:08:04 +1200

Baboom would have the better UI (newer, I guess) and the ability (which I didn’t test) to upload your own music collection. It seems a bit thin on content, especially if your tastes don’t align to the Loop Recordings catalogue.

Yes, they're open about that – the soft launch is…

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:06:37 +1200

Also, what I would like to see is an integration of (alternative/student) radio into a streaming service, such that you can listen to a radio station's livestream and get given options to buy / favourite the tunes you hear.

Personally, Active is my main curator and guide for music (in…

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:01:26 +1200

I had a play with Baboom and, for comparison, Spotify.

Baboom would have the better UI (newer, I guess) and the ability (which I didn't test) to upload your own music collection. It seems a bit thin on content, especially if your tastes don't align to the Loop Recordings catalogue.…

Russell Brown

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:36:01 +1200

And right on cue: Streaming Music is Ripping You Off, which proposes the same payment model as Baboom is using.

It's worth a read for a deeper look at why the current model sucks.

Russell Brown

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:39:41 +1200

Does it do a stream of suggested music, or do you need to select your hundred tracks and it shuffles them?

The latter (although shuffling is optional) – but the former would certainly be worth them looking at.

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:13:38 +1200

Thats a mighty big house … does it cause some navigational problems for all the container ships bringing us music players from China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5qbFfdlTDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ges4THjP6iI

we all live in the one big room…
:- )

I'm still on the Cale-o Diet...

FletcherB

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:59:43 +1200

Hmmm... management in Auckland, in-house programmers in Portugal...

Thats a mighty big house, I would have thought I'd have noticed it, does it cause some navigational problems for all the container ships bringing us music players from China?

BenWilson

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:34:50 +1200

Thank the stars you're talking about music. I thought this was going to be the most insensitive headline ever on PA.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:16:40 +1200

Does it do a stream of suggested music, or do you need to select your hundred tracks and it shuffles them?

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:40:42 +1200

That sounds like a genuinely good royalty structure – I hope it’s successful.

It strikes me that it aligns with what people think they're doing through other streaming services.

chris

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:37:38 +1200

Its investors and management are in New Zealand.

It sounds good, I joined up after your post last night and I was interested in:

We’re always excited about meeting new people and growing the team, so feel free to get in touch if you are:

but I was a little…

Dylan Reeve

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:34:18 +1200

That sounds like a genuinely good royalty structure – I hope it's successful.

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:20:58 +1200

so you recommend purchasing ALAC files? Concerned about storage space on devices. (and as yet I can’t add my own content to Rdio).

ALAC will save you 40-60% on file size, so it's still biggish. You can get iTunes to sync 256k versions to your mobile device to save space…

Russell Brown

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:18:48 +1200

Doh…
Badaboom is down at the moment.

Hmm. Must have been brief. It's working now.

Eediot

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:08:15 +1200

um... how do I post a screengrab again?

Eediot

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:04:15 +1200

Doh…
Badaboom is down at the moment.

BTW: taking your your points on your recent post about purchasing where possible (I’m a premium Rdio subscriber- who goes to as many local gigs of my fav artists as possible), so you recommend purchasing ALAC files? Concerned about storage space on devices.…

Public Address

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:04:15 +1200

Discussion from blog post.