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"Fresh from increasing its focus on games with a dedicated fund for developers, mobile messaging company Tango is pushing itself as a place to share photos\u00A0after it launched a standalone 'music remix' app for its US users.\r\n\r\nUpdate: It seems the app is not quite really for a full rollout as Tango has removed it from the App Store. We've contacted the company for more details.\r\n\r\nTango Music Pix\u00A0essentially lets users create a slideshow of images which\u00A0can be\u00A0set to music. The tunes come from Spotify -- which already has a sharing partnership with Tango -- and the end result is something not unlike Snapchat's 'Stories' feature, which lets users cobble together images from a day in their life and has become more popular than the service's disappearing photos.\r\n\r\nThe app -- which is only available in the US App Store and is iOS-only for now -- was first spotted by Musically. Initially it asks you to select as many as 10 images from your camera roll, after which you pick\u00A0a 30-second\u00A0music clip for the background. You can chose to create a slideshow without music, but Tango is placing a heavy focus on the music side of things with its description of the app.\r\n\r\nThe pre-selected assortment of pop music isn't really my thing, but unfortunately I didn't have much choice as I wasn't able to search for specific tracks on Spotify, even though I am a registered user. (I'm not based in the US, which might be the reason, but that was frustrating.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOnce you have content and music, your creation is ready to be shared. You can share to your Tango profile page or directly into a chat conversation, while there is also the option to post to Facebook or Twitter.\r\n\r\nAlternatively you can go all web 1.0 and share via\u00A0email or just copy the link for pasting elsewhere.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTango has taken a lot of cues from Asian messaging apps like Line and Kakao Talk in the past, and both of these services do\u00A0have standalone music apps in\u00A0their own home countries. That said, this app definitely feels more like Snapchat given that the focus is on curating and sharing photos, albeit not those that disappear.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhile I'll freely admit that this isn't a service I will\u00A0use, I can imagine that it might be popular with younger people as a way to share their photos from a weekend at a music festival, a holiday or other\u00A0significant events.\r\n\r\nTango says it has 25 million daily users (from 200 million registered users) with the US its biggest market, though it doesn't say exactly how many users that it has there. The company is definitely ramping up its focus on content, so it will be interesting to see what comes next.\r\n\r\nThere's no immediate word on whether or when the app might make an appearance outside of the\u00A0US, nor do we know if there will be an Android version. We've emailed Tango for more\u00A0details and will update with any response provided.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Tango Music Pix for iOS | Via Musically\r\n\r\nHeadline image via\u00A0servickuz / Shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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