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"As is usually the case with startups, Turntable.fm is not the only music-listening room service on the block. There's also Outloud.fm, which adds SoundCloud into the mix.\nOutloud.fm launched back in March without much fanfare. \"It's been live all along, though we never had a high profile public launch,\" says co-founder Mike O'Brien. \"Then as the 'social listening' phenomenon started to get a big influx of media attention, the word gradually spread and users also found their way to Outloud.fm.\" \nThe phenomenon that O'Brien is referring to is Turntable.fm, a buzzy, still-in-beta app that has in recent months caught the attention of both the tech and music scene.\nOutloud.fm is similar in use to Turntable and operates via the same principle of sharing music with friends. \"Mike and I worked together at Meetup.com, and during the day we\u2019d chat and share YouTube music links to keep ourselves entertained,\" says co-founder Number Two, Steven Huynh. \"We wanted to build a site to facilitate this in a fun and easy way, and were influenced by our days in AOL chatrooms, so a lot of that shows in the site\u2019s design and functionality.\"\nLike those AOL chatrooms, the site is pretty easy to use: Sign in via Facebook or Twitter and you'll be prompted to create a room. Invite friends to the room via the aforementioned social networks to start spinning tracks. You can also join a single public room, if you have no friends. The room itself looks just like your average chatroom \u2014 no avatars and decks like on Turntable.fm \u2014 with music and chat located in the same spot. To listen to music, you can either drag and drop files into the room's DJ queue or search for music on SoundCloud. \nGranted, this site is not as built out or popular as Turntable.fm. It also hasn't sealed any licensing agreements, as TT.fm has, and Outcloud.fm is basically a bootstrapped effort. Still, the addition of SoundCloud into the mix is an awesome one. We can see this service being extremely useful for bands and music industry folks who want to easily share and get feedback on their tracks, right from their SoundClouds.\nWhat do you think, Turntable adherents: Will you be checking out Outloud.fm?\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Steve Snodgrass"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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