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Re:Earbits (YC W11) Brings A Twist: Online Radio Where Bands... by sev on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @11:52PM (#2308098)
That sounds good. It's just that it's easy to get carried away with an algorithm you own which produces money by "selling out" and doing what your highest bidders want you to do in this kind of business. As long as it's monitored and done in such a way to make money and be appealing to non-mainstream as well as mainstream styles, this will be very useful.
Re:Earbits (YC W11) Brings A Twist: Online Radio Where Bands... by earbitscom on Thursday March 10, 2011 @12:00AM (#2308125)
Yeah...we're forcing ourselves to focus on quality by not charging the band until someone has listened to 30 seconds. If we get a lot of skips, we lose money, so we're forced to focus on the right matches and high quality music. We want to do this right.