Jango (website)
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Jango is an advertising-supported Internet radio and social networking service founded by Daniel Kaufman (former executive and co-founder of the now-defunct Direct Revenue).[1] Its main product is a streaming radio service that provides user customized music feeds.
Jango's music discovery engine recommends and plays additional songs based on the users' musical tastes, established by their individual listening activities on the site. The content is delivered through the Panther Express network.[2] As of March 2008[update], Jango has 1 million users who have created 3 million customized stations.[3] Every several songs, the service gives users the power to "make or break" an up-and-coming artist. Users have the option of clicking "make" to give the artist more air time, or "break" to reduce it.
[edit] Features
- Customizable stations
- Recommendations based on the user's rated songs and artists
- "Play often", "Play sometimes", and "Never play" features
- Choose the amount of recommended artists played.
- Available in many countries where competitor Pandora is not.
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- Playback, fast forward, and rewind are not possible
- Play-on-demand is not possible on all songs
- Some artists have an unusually small number of songs available
- Banner ads
- Pop-up ads
- Impossible to cancel personal account, the option does not exist and can only be done by emailing the administrators.
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