#roqbot

With the amount of media content that is now available, there is a growing need for new services that help curate people’s entertainment libraries. By identifying and analysing individual’s interests, conversations and peer recommendations,  new platforms are creating personalised entertainment channels that streamline existing content, and help the user discover new things. Interestingly, as more of our content moves off our computers and onto the cloud, people will be able to access this content anywhere and on any device. ROQBOT: Roqbot allows users choose what music is playing in various venues via their smartphones. By checking in to the location, their musical preferences (such as their Facebook likes, profile listings, and the music on their smartphone) affect the soundtrack. They can also use the apps to vote for tunes and add them to the queue. The Gap store, San Francisco has become the first retail partner for Roqbot, allowing its customers to decide what they listen to while they shop.

SHELBY.TV: Shelby.tv is an online platform that aggregates all of the videos being recommended by family and friends on Facebook and Twitter into a single video channel (like a personalized YouTube). Instead of redirecting users to multiple sites, the service offers a continuous stream of content that’s both effortless and relevant to what individual users are interested in.

CHANEL 4SEVEN: Launched later this year, Channel 4seven will give viewers more chances to catch the most popular and talked about Channel 4 shows from the last seven days. It will schedule the main channel content that is creating noise – amongst social media, bloggers, commentators and of course via contact our viewers have directly with us – and incorporate this buzz into the look and feel of the channel. OUR OPINION As we see more of our attention taken away from the ‘ad break,’ we need to adapt. More and more, we’re looking less at the TV for guidance on what to buy, and getting this information from our friends instead. Channel 4od is one of the first examples of how this is becoming mainstream.

Turntable.fm and their slew of competitors showed us how voracious music lovers can be when they can come together to play tracks. The next craze: digital jukeboxing. We're seeing a handful of startups pop-up, all with a similar goal in mind: let patrons at bars choose what they're listening to on the house speakers via their own mobile phones and music libraries. The most common features so far are voting on tracks in the que, point and reward systems, and new approaches to music discovery. This is who Cantora has talked to so far

AmpCloud

Roqbot

PlayMySong

Roqbot co-founder Ketu Patel was sick of missing his turn at the bowling alley every time he put a new song on the jukebox, so he and his friends built a better jukebox -- one that anyone in a venue can access through their smartphone in order to pick songs and vote on each others' picks.

According to the company's co-founders, venues will use Roqbot most of the time to provide background music to establish their venue's identity, and that's where The Echo Nest comes in.

The Roqbot app (iPhone and Android), which took top honors at the SXSW Music Accelerator awards and made a splash in the press, lets venue owners create customized background music that's consistent with the ambience they're trying to create, in minutes, using The Echo Nest's Artist Similarity API.

Venue staff need only choose five artists, and Roqbot uses The Echo Nest's deep musical intelligence to recommend the right mix of tunes. Venues can also shift between these stations based on the time of day.

The Echo Nest is crucial in powering these stations, so important to venues, because they need music that reflects their overall vision. Nobody at a metal-themed bar is likely to enjoy the pop vocal stylings of Justin Bieber, for instance.

This award-winning, widely-acclaimed Roqbot app comes in two versions: one for patrons; and another for restaurants, bars and other venues, which can dock a device into their sound systems to play tunes powered by their customers -- and by The Echo Nest.