This Is My Jam Goes Beyond Single Songs With Spotify App & TIMJ API
This Is My Jam (TIMJ) caught attention for featuring one song at a time from each user. But it lacks a history of one's picks which fits their slow music philosophy but doesn't address the age of the playlist. So TIMJ released a Spotify app that creates playlists from one's "jams" and likes.
They're also working on an API that will allow for additional apps connected to other services.
This Is My Jam got off the ground last year with support from The Echo Nest but really took off this year. Users pick one song to be featured at a time and can discover other's picks through browsing and following. On the TIMJ website one's playlist is made up of the current featured jam of each of the people you follow.
Last week TIMJ released their free Spotify app that opens up the history of your picks as well as those of others allowing for the creation of playlists in Spotify.
In addition, the Spotify app "introduces you to like-minded Jam users based on what you listen to in Spotify, so you can hear what they’ve been posting, and follow them within the service."
Offering a Spotify app expands the discovery possibilities that were an inspiration for the creation of TIMJ. It's also the first of what is hoped to be a series of apps relying on TIMJ's API which cofounder Matthew Ogle discussed back in January:
"We have a pretty ambitious roadmap with some cool features coming up, and we've had lots of requests for integration with services like BandCamp, Instagram, Spotify and we want to do those too. An API will probably come sooner rather than later, as it makes integrations a lot easier, plus we're excited to see what sort of things TIMJ users might build if given the chance!"
That day has finally arrived with the release of the Spotify app and a request for developers to contact TIMJ if they want access to the still-in-beta API. It should be interesting to see what comes next though connecting TIMJ's one song at a time to Spotify's deep pool of music covers a lot of territory.
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