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-soundtrack.io is a collaborative online jukebox.
+soundtrack.io is a collaborative online jukebox.  It is an experimental Internet radio platform.  Vote on what plays next, like Reddit for music.  Aggregates streams from sources like YouTube and SoundCloud, so when a song is queued, it has multiple locations to play from if any one source fails for any particular reason.
 
 ## Getting Started