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Aupeo App Gets European Certification for MirrorLink

Aupeo, the supplier of loading audio for the automotive marketplace (a part of Panasonic), released this week the accreditation of the “Personal Stereo by AUPEO!“ program for MirrorLink from the Vehicle Connection Range.

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AUPEO! announced the availability of its infotainment service to Volkswagen cars. Already collaborating with Audi, the audio streaming platform extends its service to additional Volkswagen Group brands through the integration with MirrorLink. And we are proud of given chance to do this MirrorLink integration!

Our roots

It's been a long time since we've joined forces with AUPEO! team. We've made first modern and high-quality app for Android users and modernized it later. The next aim was to built an application for Windows Phone 7, update it to Windows 8 and create version directly for Windows 7 and 8 Desktop. And now, during AUPEO! expansion and theirs new opportunities, we're announcing AUPEO! Personal Radio first audio application certified for MirrorLink by Volkswagen!

What is MirrorLink?

MirrorLink started as a research project by Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, US. They took results from the noBounds! project and applied them to the automotive domain. Over time, the Car Connectivity Consortium made up of various auto and electronic manufacturers, has joined together to set up an industry standard for certifying apps and devices. The main goal was to ensure both safe and useful for drivers - that's how MirrorLink was created. The joint effort by car manufacturers and phone makers is aimed at developing open standards to define possible operations of smartphones linked to cars.

MirrorLink integration advantages

MirrorLink offers seamless connectivity between a smartphone and the car infotainment system. Drivers just connect the phone with a cable and immediately gain access to phone applications via the car's navigation screen, also either dashboard steering or wheel buttons. A unique element of MirrorLink is its ability to show the smartphone interface from a variety of mobile OS platforms on the audio head-unit display.

How we used MirrorLink

Use of MirrorLink gave us quite a lot of possibilities in implementation. We're interested in supplying connectivity between your private phone and car audio system what brings a lot of benefits, such as comfortable app navigation from steering wheel. We also took care of safety driving and implemented clean and modest user interface, not taking unnecessary notice of driver by reducing animation and adapting colours. Until now we've been preparing AUPEO! app with MirrorLink support for Volkswagen cars and are going to extend this product to the next brands in Volkswagen Automotive Group. If you would have any business offer, please feel free to contact Concise Software and familiarize our managers with your great concept.

What is AUPEO! ?

We had the great honor to consign the newest Android version of Aupeo! app to the Google Play market.

AUPEO! is free, personal, internet radio with a focus on the discovery of new songs and artists. It offers radio stations compiling an individual program for listeners and recommend similar music. Aupeo currently provides streaming services in more than 40 countries. Founded in 2008, the service also offers more than 6,000 channels of terrestrial radio, podcast streaming and other services.

The latest release offers fresh new app design to provide best user experience. Together with Aupeo team we decided to put more emphasize on visual design through both a larger  “love” and “ban”  buttons as well as prominent album cover. Visual design was optimized and simplified to make the user interface truly intuitive, friendlier to recognize and easily scalable over fragmented Android market.

In order to improve usability easier access to the stations was enabled. Now stations are arranged by genre, featured station, featured artist and mood. On top of that more than 150 curated stations from all genres and time periods increase the power of the app. All of them were put into diversified catalogues which gives users opportunity to have rich musical cruise on the gorgeous sound’s deck.

We also want to emphasize that our release coincide with first day of one of the biggest electronics and technology trade show – 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. What’s more, Aupeo! with Panasoniccompany presents their connected to in-car entertainment systems which soon will make a breakthrough in full surround sound in your car using new DTS-HD sound format. “The technology combination of our platform, which is designed to provide personalized audio content in multiple formats to consumers, and DTS’ codecs to deliver multichannel decoding for in-vehicle use or two-channel decoding for headphone use is very appealing to consumers that want to take full advantage of their car audio systems but also want extend this listening experience to mobile consumer devices. We are pleased to be working with DTS and content providers to launch this service later in the year.” said David Taylor, CTO and managing director of Aupeo.

We are keeping our fingers crossed for Panasonic and Aupeo! success in this field and Concise Software collaboration with both companies on these exciting IT ventures – we are pleased to invite you to enjoy our fresh released Aupeo! Personal Radio app. You can download it from here:

By Andrew Apanov of Dotted Music and Stand Above The Noise (now seeking patrons at Patreon).

In this Stand Above The Noise episode, Fraunhofer's Steffen Holly discusses the sophisticated algorithms behind AUPEO! Personal Radio, why the only way to affect the amount of plays of your tracks on AUPEO! is to create good music, and how to actually place your music on the radio (hint: you better have a physical CD release to send over to their Berlin office).

This is the second part of an interview with Steffen Holly, CTO of AUPEO! at the time of the interview in 2012. Part 1 focused on AUPEO! Personal Radio versus the role of traditional radio. Holly currently leads the business unit of Media Management & Delivery at Fraunhofer in Berlin.

Steffen Holly Discusses AUPEO! Personal Radio

00:17 - Is it possible to increase the amount of plays of one's tracks on AEPEO?

04:06 - How to get music on the AUPEO! Personal Radio?

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Carsten Steffen - applaudTo - MLOVE- Mobile X Music from MLOVE.com on Vimeo.

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Are you ready for the best designed music app to hit AppRadio so far?  It's called Aupeo!  Go download it now.

Aupeo! is a personal radio service that generates playlists based on what it thinks you'll want to listen to.  In that way, it's very similar to Pandora.

You can also select from existing playlists, that get way outside of the traditional (and too vague) Rock, Alternative, Jazz and Hip Hop categories.  With Aupeo!, I headed straight to Seattle 1990's, and then went to West Coast Hip Hop.  Aupeo! does a great job of selecting tracks for you, and allows you to give it feedback on what you like and don't like.  The best part is that Aupeo! tries to find music to suit your taste no matter what category you're in.

The interface is beautiful, and specifically designed for safe driving.  Lists can be scrolled with your finger, or with well sized and responsive buttons.  The app is very snappy and quick, with an experience so far much better than Rdio's or AppRadio's iPod app.

Aupeo! has also kept your data plan in mind, with a setting to optimize audio quality based on your connection to save bandwidth costs.