iOS App V.2 is Out!

The Whyd iOS App has been out for about a month and half so far, and the reviews have been awesome. “Life-changing,” “the best music app out there,” and “I’m using Whyd more than Spotify,” are just a few examples of the praise from our music lovers. 

But like any V.1 there are limitations, and our mobile team consisting of Damien “Taylor Swift Code” Romito and Loïck “Dub was so 2013” Müller have been working like crazy to bring the Whyd app meet the social expectations it demands. 

The big news is that our famous “long tap” feature to like and re-add has been expanded to sharing. Now you can send your tracks - and entire playlists - to your friends on Whyd, Facebook, Twitter, and even via email or by SMS! Now, when you add a track that you know someone else will love, you can make sure they won’t miss it. And when your friend says, “yo man, I love this playlist,” you can send it to them directly, whether or not they have a Whyd account. 

The app also updates the player for better, continuous playback. 

PLEASE NOTE: For our music lovers who have already downloaded V.1, the new version tends to crash when you open the notifications in the update. We are working on a solution as quickly as possible, but if this happens to you, just delete the app and redownload it. The problem goes away and of course all of your music is still there! 

And, please keep giving us feedback so we can continue to improve the experience: tony at whyd dot com

1 MILLION TRACKS

When you are in a start up, it can be difficult sometimes. Watching the metrics sag, wondering about which feature will lead to explosive growth. Creating a road map and discarding it the next day. But sometimes, something happens that makes it all worth it, that gives you the confirmation that yes: what we are doing matters, and it’s working. Last night, we celebrated a major milestone, we surpassed 1,000,000 tracks added to Whyd

Our music lovers are the best on the planet, passionate about discovering the next awesome sound, and passionate about sharing those discoveries with everyone else. 1 million tracks later, we can say that the quality of music on Whyd is only improving: more activity means more discovery. More followers for our curators, a wider range of possibilities for our listeners. Tracks added from the web and now mobile. 

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Thank you to our amazing community of curators for all the music you’ve shared with us. For a small little team split between Paris and San Francisco, crossing the millionth track added to Whyd is a game-changer. It powers us forward, to get to 10 million tracks added and to keep constructing a place that is dedicated to music and music lovers. 

With your help, we will get there. 

Never stop jamming! 

BBQ is Back! [PHOTOS]

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It’s been nearly two years since the infamous BBQ that crippled our ability to host parties in the little garden behind our incubator, but it was too nice of a day to sit by without pulling out the old charcoal and roasting some merguez. Damn it feels good to be a grillster. 

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Adrien making some serious bread:

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Getting that fire going:

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Hot day in Paris, perfect for beer and BBQ! 

Next week, get your iPhones ready

Nearly every single music lover on Whyd has asked for it, and what a long project it has been: expertly managed by our lead dev Adrien, beautifully crafted and polished by our lead design Loick, and meticulously constructed and optimized by our tireless mobile dev Damien all the way out in San Francisco, we are proud to announce to you, our faithful community, that the Whyd iOS app will be out next week!

The significance might be lost on some people, who just assume that everything should also come in app form. But music is social at its core, and it is inseparable from our favorite life experiences. Music accompanies us through the difficult times, through the laughs and joys, through the stress and anxiety, always there, always helping, always enriching. 

To bring the Whyd experience to mobile is to help you get the most from your moments in life, by making sure that you always have the right soundtrack. If you’re in Paris come to our launch party and Play Off on Sunday afternoon, June 22nd to celebrate with us! 

Never stop jamming!

PS: Yes, Android users out there, we know iPhones get all the cool apps first. But we are already developing the Whyd Android app, so have no fear!

PPS: Windows phone users might have to wait a little bit longer…. 

The Paris Page Progresses

The Paris community has been rapidly expanding and the coolest music trendsetters are sharing their favorite tunes from Paris throughout the world. We’ve been very happy with the response so far, and our awesome intern Guillaume has been up to some serious rethinking of the way that we present you, our wonderful community. 

So we encourage you to check out the Paris page and click around to see what’s new, like the new cards for people, genre tags, and the idea to feature 3 playlists per day, resolving the issues of attaching too many playlists at one time with no description! The design will continue to develop, but we’ve come a long way! 

Let us know what you think! Send us your ideas for improvements to tony at whyd dot com and of course let us know which cities we should come to next! 

Goodies: Drive People To Your Whyd Profile AND We Will Feature You!

Are you a blogger? Trendy magazine? Music digger? Or just have a couple of other websites floating around the web? Do you want to help people find your musical personality and listen to your playlists?

A very effective way to do this is to use the goodies from your Whyd page, which are the elements that you can add to your sites to help people get to your profile. There are different size buttons (to match your site’s style) which will give you a specific HTML code to copy and paste. 

Once you’ve done this, send us the link to your website and we will feature it across our social networks! 

If you have any questions, we are available all the time at tony at whyd dot com. 

Paris: We Want Your Music — Whyd Paris Live Today

This post, written by our co-founder Gilles, explains everything you need to know about what Whyd is trying to do. 

Two years ago, I remember having a discussion around a coffee with fellow music diggers in Paris about the way we are used to discover and share songs today: music is everywhere but fragmented on many platforms like Youtube, SoundCloud, MP3 blogs etc…We didn’t have a place to gather and share all of our discoveries.

Our team of 5 music lovers — Including a DJ, pianist and epic drummer- started working on a simple and straightforward bookmarking tool to collect tracks from the different music platforms.

The prototype initially launched for a small group of 25 music diggers gained adoption in the vibrant Paris electronic community. 1,000 people joined the beta during the summer, while we were improving the tool. The amount of quality music shared everyday was amazing.

We started understanding how the power of community was going to revolutionize the way we discover music in the streaming era.

The launch of the Paris City Stream is a strong step forward in our mission: Empowering music communities to bring amazing music discovery to the world.

It’s not only a symbol but a tribute to the local Paris community who started the movement: bloggers, DJs, singers, concert venues, magazines, labels and all of the music lovers who come to Whyd everyday to share the tracks and playlists that move them. These guys are shaping the present and future of the Paris music scene. We want to amplify their voices.

For music listeners it also offers a fantastic new way to discover new songs and playlists. Push the “Start Listening” button and enjoy an endless stream of good music.

Whyd is now a growing community of 50 000 music lovers finding the best of the newest music everyday in 100+ countries around the world.

Paris is the starting point of our action. World, we want to hear your music.

Never stop jamming

Everyone Welcome Guillaume!

When the team split and we began our quest for world domination, we were feeling a little lonely with just half the team in Paris. So we decided to bring in some help, to develop the city pages, improve the experience of the Whyd community, and help us with the all-important growth hacking. His name is Guillaume, and he is a music lover.

He claims to love all music, and this is certainly a theory that we will test, but he is most passionate about 80’s funk, ripping off a list of artists and groups that we’ve never heard of before, which solicited a lot of respect, and intrigue. 

Guillaume will be here with us until June 20th, so make sure that you subscribe to him on Whyd for what is promising to be some very, very cool jams. 

From the Whyd team: Welcome Guillaume! Never stop jamming.

April Fools Day Joke: A Chance To Reaffirm Our Mission

Yesterday’s post nailed it: we pranked the community and said that starting today Whyd would be a $20/month subscription. We scared some people, which means that the April Fools joke totally worked. 

Of course, those who know us saw immediately that we were playing around, Whyd is not going to become some expensive platform for the rich, Whyd is about sharing music, no matter which platform you use, no matter where you are in the world. Music is universal, and so is Whyd. 

As we’ve said over and over again, Whyd is a community, brought together by our common love. Our mission is to create a world wide soundsystem featuring the best of the newest music and the coolest music lovers around. We’re thankful that we’ve already come so far, and we can’t wait to see where we will all go next. 

Never stop jamming

Whyd Paris: Coming Soon (OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY APRIL 24th)

Paris has long been one of the world’s cultural centers. From the Pagans who flogged witches on the marshy banks of the Seine to the philosophers and impressionists of the Left Bank to the music collectives of 2014, Paris has never followed. 

It is appropriate, then, that Paris, our sweet home, leads the Whyd community with our innovative approach of promoting our community to mainstream audiences. Whyd’s Parisien selectors are sharing some of the best music, no matter where it is coming from in the world. 

So, on April 24th, we will celebrate the launch of the Official Whyd Paris page, a place uniquely suited to give you the pulse of the music scene here, putting forward our trendiest music lovers and giving everyone a window of access into this whirlwind of sounds rotating around the Eiffel Tower. 

If you’re here in Paris, you’re invited to the official Launch Party at Le Dandy, organized in collaboration with our buddies at Bathroom, Thursday, April 24th. Tony will be cooking all day to bring you some delicious bites to eat, and of course, we have much to toast, so bring your drinking hats, and never stop jamming!