Navigate to the ‘Share’ tab on the website or the latest iOS and Android apps to see friends whose music you can play, and also to share your own music. The latest updates also shows you all Mixes created by your friends, so you can access and play them everywhere.

Sharing your tunes and listening to songs that your friends are grooving to has never been easier. So head on over to www.audiogalaxy.com and turn your friends into virtual radio stations!

• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday
• Everybody

We’ve also put together a poster showing how our recommendation database sees the Coachella artists. Follow the arrows from artists you like to artists you don’t recognize if you want to know who to listen for. Artists are color-coded by the day they perform (Friday, Saturday, Sunday):

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Give it a SWSW artist, and it will show bands we recommend for that artist, and noting ones that are performing this year. This can help you get a feel for what you are going to see before you get in line. If you want to visualize these relationships another way, we’ve also built some pretty graphs that show you the links between all the related artists.

The arrows mean there is a connection between the artists, and the darker green artists are actually performing at SXSW this year.

All of this relies on one of the engines that drive Mixes, our new internet radio service. So after you get back from Austin, come back to Audiogalaxy.com and try it out.

Audiogalaxy Mixes brings us closer to our vision of an ideal music experience. However, creating a music service people love and that is appropriately licensed is a difficult challenge. Music fans want to enjoy and discover new music while musicans, labels, and songwriters need to get paid for their work. We hope that the new Audiogalaxy provides the best of both worlds. Our Mixes feature follows webcasting rules so we pay SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and SEESAC to broadcast music that customers already love, and also new music in a radio-style format. New songs users love can be purchased via the Amazon MP3 Store. Mixes are currently available for US customers only – we wish we could offer the feature internationally, but our current licenses do not permit that.

Our secret sauce, we believe, is in picking the best tracks to play. We have developed our own recommendation engine to find the songs customers will enjoy in their Mixes, and as people use the service, we can refine their experience to ensure that they continue discovering great music.

There are also times when customers want to play specific songs that they own and love, instead of a radio-style experience. For such occasions, Audiogalaxy makes sure that their personal collection of music is always available to them no matter where they go, and is streamed directly from their computer.

We hope this expanded offering results in an enjoyable and fun listening experience for everyone, and we look forward to improving it even more.

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Offline Mode

After you pin songs to your device you can still enjoy your music the next time you’re on a plane or in an area with spotty network access. You are in control of what is pinned and what is streamed – simply swipe any row to pin or un-pin songs. You can pin entire playlists, albums, artists, genres or individual songs. Enter offline mode via the Settings menu, and jump back online using the ‘Go Online‘ button. In addition to making them available offline, pinning the songs you play most will reduce dataplan usage and improve battery life, because the local copy will be used even when you are online. (So go ahead and pin that ‘Most Played Songs’ playlist first!)

You can pin a limited number of songs as part of the free trial, and once you purchase the add-on there is no limit (except for space on your device) on how many songs you can download. You can purchase the add-on as an in-app purchase from the Settings menu, and can also check the status of your download. You can also get visual cues throughout the app to know when downloads are in progress – try it out!

Offline Playback Options

This new release also introduces the ability to swipe a song to like it, add it to any existing playlist or start a new playlist with the song. We’re excited to bring you these features, but we have some even better features coming up in the near future, so stay tuned!

Our users love the streaming experience that Audiogalaxy provides on mobile devices, with glitch-free audio even in areas with weak network coverage. Super-fast streaming directly from your computer to your device using Audiogalaxy is a great way to access all your music everywhere, without worrying about endless uploading to someone else’s cloud or worrying about hitting silly limits.

But even in our highly connected world, we sometimes find ourselves out of reach of the internet – on a plane, in the subway or in the wilderness. Additionally, you may be more conscious of how much bandwidth you are using on a limited data plan. Pinning the songs you like takes care of both of these problems as well as reducing battery usage.

Pinned songs

Offline Song Stats

Simply pin entire playlists, artists, albums or genres directly from the top-level tabs, or pick and choose individual songs. In addition to making them available offline, pinning songs you play most will reduce network utilization and improve battery life, because the local copy will be used even when you are online. You can pin a limited number of songs as part of the free trial, and once you purchase the add-on there is no limit (except for space on your device) on how many songs you can download. Remember, you can queue songs for download at any time but to ensure best performance, songs are only downloaded when you are connected to a WiFi network.

As you navigate your collection, you will see a pin icon alongside songs available offline, or songs queued for download. You can check the status of your downloads and the space consumed on your SD card from the Settings tab, and you can free up space by unpinning songs if you need to. Toggling between online and offline mode is easy – simply hit ‘Menu’ and select ‘Go Offline’ or ‘Go Online’.

Protip: The first playlist you’ll want to pin is your “Most Played Songs”. That will get you quick access to the music you are most likely to listen to. After that, pin your ‘Liked Songs” list. If you don’t have any Liked songs, look for the little heart in extra bar of options on the player.

Customize any song into a ringtone

The ‘Offline Playback‘ add-on in this new version joins the ‘Ringtone Creator‘ add-on, which lets you easily convert an unlimited number of songs in your Audiogalaxy collection into ringtones. With the Ringtone Creator, you can precisely configure the start time so that you can create that special ringtone which will be the envy of all your friends.

While streaming your music will continue to remain free, we hope you enjoy this first set of premium add-ons. We love getting feedback from users, so do let us know what you think about these updates.

PS: We’re also working on bringing offline playback to iOS, so iOS fans – stay tuned!

The Android app has intelligent scrolling, which lets you jump letters as you rapidly scroll up and down your lists. Did you know that to filter the list without scrolling, you can simply start typing what you’re looking for? For instance, to see all artists with the name “Michael”, switch to the Artists tab, slide open your keyboard and start typing. If your device doesn’t have a hardware keyboard, press and hold the menu key on your device to bring up the soft keyboard and start typing. Watch the list filter as you type. You can do the same thing on the albums, playlists or genres tabs.

To search your entire collection for all songs where a particular search term appears either in the song, artist or album name simply hit the ‘Search’ button on your device. Results are shown as you type, and you can even say the search string using the voice input button! Then, just queue or play the songs directly from the search results.

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Search everything or find a specific song

Instantly search your entire collection

On the website too, you can sort your collection to see the newest songs first, or you can use our nifty alphabetic sort bar to automatically scroll to the letter you’re looking for. The instant-search box lets you find any song in your entire collection from wherever you are on the site.

So go ahead and load up Audiogalaxy with all your songs knowing that your favorite artist, album or song is never more than just a few clicks away!

Here’s what is different from the sneak peek release:

• Add songs to existing playlists
• Filter songs by location, view suggested songs or browse global plays when you’re Exploring
• Bigger player bar with larger buttons
• Social buttons bar remembers whether you prefer it be hidden or visible
• Promote or delete songs that appear in the next up list in Genie mode

"Explore" Audiogalaxy

Expanded Player View

This new build has some huge, new features:

• All-new home screen
• New, always-visible player bar with quick controls
• Ability to see what others are playing and follow friends (other Audiogalaxy users or Facebook friends)
• Ability to like songs you’re playing, and songs which your friends have played
• Listen to songs (in YouTube, for now) that others are playing
• Lookup artist biographies on Wikipedia
• Search for lyrics
• Create a new account from the mobile app
• Easier sign-in using Facebook
• Tell friends about Audiogalaxy right from the app
• and more…

New Home Screen (beta)

Android Global Feed (beta)

“Genie” looks at the last five tracks in your playlist and then based on those tracks looks through your entire collection finding other tracks you want to hear.  For people with large music collections, this is the best way to create a multi hour playlist of what you want to hear.  If you haven’t tried it, please give it a shot – it works on the website, Android, and now iOS.  You won’t find the Audiogalaxy Genie anywhere else since it is custom engineered for our users exclusively.

We are only scratching the surface.  The community and social aspects of Audiogalaxy in 2002 were unmatched at the time and we look forward to bringing that excitement back to the relaunched Audiogalaxy in 2011.