Deezer announces ‘App Studio’ for developers, ‘App Centre’ store and Echo Nest partnership

Deezer announces 'App Studio' for developers, 'App Centre' store and Echo Nest partnership

Deezer may not be the number one player in the music streaming game, but it’s looking to gain ground on its biggest rival with the release of its “App Studio.” In addition to an “App Centre” for showcasing software that integrates the service’s catalogue, developers “can now place feature-rich apps inside Deezer.com.” The company also hopes that a partnership with Echo Nest should make it easier for devs to use music in their projects. A modest 8 items will be available in the App Centre at launch, including the edjing app for mixing Deezer tracks on virtual decks, and the cheeky Spotizr app for importing your Spotify playlist. The French streaming outfit has also been busy improving its social aspects in Facebook and through updates to its Android and iOS apps. Check out the PR below for more info on recent news, details on how to get developing, and the full list of launch-day App Centre wares.

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BBC in talks to build Playlister, a streaming music service for its own music archive

BBC in talks to build Playlister, a streaming music service for its own music archive

The BBC is home to a massive archive of highly desirable music that, sadly, due to licensing reasons, remains gathering dust in is enormous vaults. The Telegraph is reporting that the corporation’s music head, Tim Davie, is trying to put some or all of that material online for users to enjoy without additional charges. He’s said to be in talks with Spotify, Deezer and Apple to help build a service called Playlister, using the trio’s bulk-deals with the record labels to get around the long-winded wrangling that would otherwise be required. If successful, it’ll launch in 2013 free to license-fee paying Brits in a similar fashion to the wildly successful iPlayer — although we’d pay a little extra if Fearne Cotton was excluded from the catalog.

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