There’s a social network for just about everything these days, why not music? iJigg went live on January 15th and is a Digg-like social network for music. It’s not the first social network for music by any means, but to my knowledge, it’s the first Digg-like one. Here’s how it works: Artists upload their songs, and then they get “jigged” by fellow jiggers which then influences the music that becomes popular. The music can be shared by embedding it into a blog/site, sharing it via email, or by posting it to a Facebook account.
The interface is clean and simple, and they break the music up into ‘Most Popular,’ ‘Recently Posted,’ ‘My Favorites,’ and ‘Genre.’ For artists, it is easy for them to come and post music, and for listeners, it’s just as easy to come listen. They use tags so that it’s simple for people to search and browse the music.Right now only MP3 files can be uploaded, however there are plans to include other formats in the future. Below is an example of an embedded song. I went to the “Most Popular” section and found the song “Unravel” with 77 Jiggs which seemed to be the most out of all the listed songs.
A few of the downsides: First, you’re unable to download music, so if you really like a song, you’ll be stuck at iJigg all day listening to it. Because it’s a social network for music, you’d assume that you could create a friends list. Unfortunately you can’t. And of course, just like Digg, they will be battling with spammers, it’s a given.
With it’s clean easy on the eyes interface, iJigg is a good place to go to find independent music. Hopefully the gaming and spamming won’t get the best of them. So far it appears to be under control. Good luck iJigg!
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Hi Ashley, thanks for writing about iJigg. Both the features you mention(download/friends list) are pretty high up in our list of things to do and in coming weeks and months we’ll be addressing them.
-Zaid
cofounder & ceo
iJigg.com
Great, thanks for stopping by to let us know!
The interface is clean but the selection is slim right now but I guess that it will pick up as the site grows in popularity.
Also, they say that artists upload their songs. How do they determine if I’m the artist of a song? Can someone upload copyrighted music?
That’s another issue. I believe they’re counting on the honor system right now which isn’t a reliable method at all. I’m sure they would do their best to remove all copyright material, but at some point, it’s bound to appear if it hasn’t already.
I didn’t login myself to try the service, but I’m sure there is a way that users can report a song. A lot of people would probably be tempted to let it slide by but there are always a few honest people out there that would click the button to report a file.
iJigg is too chaotic. For example: it has no genre filter. And what if people start uploading music that they don’t own?