04 April 2011

Soundtracker Working With
Nokia For Multi-Platform Success

Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, discusses their multi-platform mobile music service. Daniele describes Soundtracker as the "first geo-social internet radio". It offers more than 11 million songs, which consumers can play in real time with friends and broadcast via Facebook and Twitter.

The free, ad-supported service, is available in 10 languages on a broad range of Nokia S60 and Symbian touch-based smartphones, as well as Nokia Series 40 phones. Building the app in Java, and making it work for more than fifty different Nokia phones, was "a little bit challenging for us," notes Calabrese. He adds, however, that "it was worth the time and effort because now we have an amazing reach."

Soundtracker has been available for Windows Phone since the debut of the platform, in the fall of 2010. Calabrese called the announcement of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership an "eye opener". "I was amazed by the fact that the two companies would work together, and I really wanted to be there from day one," he says.

Soundtrckr is an application that brings to Nokia phones the social listening and music discovery experience, where friends share stations and listen together in real time.

Soundtrckr has the largest fully licensed music catalog for Internet radio in the world. 8M tracks to create and share station with any artist, any genre, any language. Soundtrckr is social listening and discovery, where friends share stations and listen together in real time.

Soundtrckr is also leveraging the location-based-service capability of Nokia smartphones to hyperlocal listening and discovery. Users can tune into nearby stations created by other users, and play what’s hot around the city.

Users can also share stations via email, Twitter and with other Soundtrckr users using the app. We have also added a find and invite friends features that uses Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.

About Soundtrckr

Soundtrckr is the first Geosocial Internet radio. Soundtrckr has the largest fully licensed music catalog for Internet radio in the world. 8M tracks to create and share station with any artist, any genre, any language. Soundtrckr is social listening and discovery, where friends share stations and listen together in real time.

Soundtrckr is also hyperlocal listening and discovering allowing users to tune into nearby stations created by other users, play what’s hot around the city.