While Spotify and YouTube are popular destinations for student’s music needs, Josh Weisleder is working to introduce a different musical service that would be a one-stop shop.

The sophomore Bandier student is the first representative for Soundsgood at Syracuse University.

Soundsgood is a playlist creation service that allows users to take content from various music streaming outlets such as Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube.

Weisleder has been working for Soundsgood since the beginning of October. His position is “brand ambassador,” as his goal is to give the Paris-based business a North American presence.

This completely free service allows the user to connect their social media profiles for easy sharing, just as one can do with Spotify and SoundCloud.

Soundsgood only utilizes streams, so a person would be unable to drag mp3 files from their iTunes library and other mp3 sources into their customized playlists. The year-old playlist-creating site serves as a tool to also expose average individuals with undiscovered music.

 

Soundsgood’s overall goal is to enhance the music consumption experience for both artists and their audiences. Artists can rely on Soundsgood as another outlet for providing exposure and statistical data. The service intends to help users consolidate the music that they listen to on different platforms, organizing all of it in one place.

“The beauty of this is that you don’t have to have a relationship with just one service,” Weisleder said. “Soundsgood works together with Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube — we’re a tool in the streaming sphere that’s trying to help everybody else.”

Soundsgood is more focused on playlist curation than getting a large fan base.

Unlike other popular streaming companies, Soundsgood does not restrict its users in what songs are available. If the music is streamable on the Internet, it’s fair game.

All users have to do is copy the link from the original streaming source where the song came from and paste it into Soundsgood to start the playlist.

Soundsgood also differentiates itself from other sites in that it allows listeners to avoid exclusive loyalty to one specific source for music consumption.

When a music consumer listens to a song through Soundsgood that was originally derived from another source, that native source will still get credited for the number of listens played on Soundsgood.

The site also gives people the option to add a profile picture and custom artwork to accompany the playlists they have made.

“What’s great about Soundsgood is that it’s a program that can get music listeners noticed for being knowledgeable in a day and age where it is very challenging to get attention online,” Weisleder said. “The service is just really great for people who simply want to organize their music through playlists.”

Soundsgood strives to generate a community of people who have similar taste in certain genres of music and help grow artists that the company is promoting.

The music streaming website gives listeners the opportunity to select the order and themes of the playlists.

“I see playlists as modern radio,” Weisleder said. “They allow people to be a DJ in a time where radio is dead, and, just like radio, listeners can track down the songs they heard and liked.”

Soundsgood will be launching its official app in 2016 that will let people manage their own accounts via mobile phones compared to the beta app, which only let users engage in company-created content.

Soundsgood brings people together from different pulses within music. Users can know what’s worth listening to based on their personal interests and what’s trending in their communities.

“This is a really globalizing product that is a fantastic product for any music listener,” Weisleder said.

Published on November 17, 2015 at 9:51 pm

Contact: rcplaut@syr.edu