They don’t work full time on it, but have been working steadily for several years, doing a great job. The source code is openly available on Github, and is maintained by what appears to be three German students. I have tried it without discovering any bugs, which together with having the basic features locked in, a clean UI, and no-installation setup, makes it the best social jukebox app out there, as far as I can tell.
It has a nice UI, a search function, fallback playlists, and more.
Participants join by visiting a url or entering the party name on the landing page. Festifyįestify is a web app that uses Spotify’s Web Playback SDK to play tracks directly in the party host’s browser. What will follow is the apps and websites doing that function that I know about, and concluding remarks about what yet another such service can do better and differently. The solution is, an idea as old as the good old jukebox, a computer program selecting songs in order based on input by the participants at the party. With Spotify’s queue, a carefully crafted queue can be ruined by one well-meaning contributor clicking the wrong button and erasing the queue. It can default to some bland music because nobody is willing to risk their reputation as a music connoseur by playing their guilty pleasure songs. The party’s playlist can often be handled by a tyrant who has a very specific taste in music. Having participants at a party voting for songs to be played is a common app idea that is often mentioned, or silently thought about, when IT students have parties and social events with music. My take on the current available “social jukeboxes” out there
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