LetsListen: A Social & Face-To-Face Music Locker Experience

LetsListen is
a social music locker that allows users to store music in the cloud, play it
back anywhere, and listen and interact with their friends in real-time. While
their social listening component was once limited to just chatting via text,
the San Francisco-based startup has unveiled integrations with Google+ Hangouts
and SoundCloud that take their experience to a whole new level. The Google+
Hangouts integration allows users to listen and share music together
face-to-face, while their integration with SoundCloud gives users instant
access to free tracks all over the web. 

A social listening experience showing shades of Turntable.fm,
LetsListen users can store and play their music library online and then notify
their friends via Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to join their room where
everyone hears the same music at the same time. Room guests can request what songs
they’d like to hear next, and can even give DJs songs from their own collection
– all while having the ability to chat with anyone in the room.

“Users can create their own rooms, drop in on friends rooms, or
just explore public rooms to find new music and cool people,” said founder Cole
Flournoy. “They can sit in and listen with others in the room, share some of
their own music, suggest songs to the room owner, or start their own room where
they have complete control over what plays and if other people can
enter. LetsListen also gives users full access to listen to
their music library privately, as is typical with standard music lockers.”

The platform’s SoundCloud search integration allows users to build
their library
with free tracks pulled from SoundCloud and then listen to those with friends
in real-time. The new Google+ Hangouts app integration allows users to
listen and share music together face-to-face (up to 10 friends) on a Google+
Hangouts group video chat.

LetsListen works nicely as a functional cloud music
locker, but it’s clearly the social aspects at play that provides its real
draw. The fact that at any point a user can turn a private music experience
into a public one is definitely a cool concept. Instead of the cute avatars we
saw with Turntable.fm, users can actually hangout face-to-face, which is a nice
personal touch when it comes to the sharing of musical tastes.

For a closer look at LetsListen,
check out the video below:

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