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SoundCloud updates Stations feature
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 6 July 2016
SoundCloud has announced an update to its Stations feature, which was added to the platform earlier this year.
As well as being able to use the service to play tracks similar to any you listen to on the platform, you can now also choose to play ‘Artist Stations’, which allow you to play tracks similar to the artist you’re currently listening to. And if that sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve used any of the various personalised radio services that have been around in the last fifteen or so years.
“Just like Stations you’ve started from tracks, Stations started from an artist profile will be saved to your Collection so that you can easily revisit them later”, enthuses a blog post on the subject. “The tracks in a Station are refreshed every time you start one again and you can also skip as often as you’d like while listening”.
Also, if you’re thinking this all sounds a bit like the new Suggested Tracks feature SoundCloud launched recently, stop thinking that because you are wrong. “The algorithm behind Stations serves content in a different way than the Suggested Tracks feature we recently launched”, scolds the blog post. “Stations serve a longer queue of songs that are a mixture of similar, new, and popular tracks related to the track or artist you started the Station from, for an experience closer to listening to the radio”.
So that’s you told. And if you’re one of the four people using SoundCloud Go, you will have access to the entire 125 million+ track catalogue on the new service. Might take you a while to get through all of them though.
