Hands on with Frenzapp, a social music-discovery app

17.06.2011
Having given iOS users a way to via its app, iOS developer Bitsmedia is now turning its attention to music.

The free iPhone app helps users share their favorite music with their friends on Facebook and Twitter and get recommendations for new songs based on what their friends like. It's a pretty cool idea--though it depends on a bunch of your Facebook friends and Twitter connections also using Frenzapp Music.

Through the app, users can post music recommendations as status updates on either Facebook or Twitter. Friends can also go through a user's profile within Frenzapp Music, where they'll find all the songs the user has marked as his or her favorites.

Frenzapp music also provides various ways to discover new music. The app takes a look at all the songs that social connections have marked as favorites. Tap a button within the app, and you'll jump to a page listing a constant stream of songs friends are listening to and liking.

Another way the app helps you look for new stuff is by using the iPhone's location features to let you scan your neighborhood for songs liked by users in your immediate vicinity. You can also take a look at the iTunes top charts and, in fact, search the whole iTunes Music Store.

Anytime you see a song anywhere within the app--whether it be in a friend's favorites list, a popular song nearby, or something on the iTunes charts--you can tap on it to bring up controls to listen to a 30-second preview of it. You can also mark it as a favorite, post it as a status update, or go to the iTunes Music Store to buy it.