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Groovebug: iPad Music Magazine Based On Your Music Library

This is an awesome start of creating something like Flipboard for music. What’s cool about it is it brings all the data you want to know about the artists you love into one place. 

From the press release:

Groovebug, a new Chicago based start-up, has created an application for the iPad that uses your music collection to create an iPad magazine tailored to your musical tastes.   The app scans your library, compiles rich content from the net, and builds a fluid magazine experience that you simply swipe through - similar to Flipboard.  Groovebug is powered byEchonest, Youtube, and a powerful custom aggregation engine. 

 Digital music downloads and devices like the iPod revolutionized how we listen to music, making it highly portable.  Artists and publishers moved music related content like videos, bios, images and articles to social networks, blogs and mircoblogs. Recently, music streaming and cloud services have given music fans access to vast libraries of recorded music from anywhere at very low cost.  Technology companies like the Echonest have created frameworks to discover music based on extremely sophisticated similar artists algorithms. There is incredible access to artists now through all of these yet lack the cohesive experience of the past (sitting with album art and packaging and reading liner note, looking at photos, reading their thank you lists, seeing where it was recorded and how, etc).  Groovebug offers a unique flip through of all things related to an artist in simple swipes of the iPad eliminating the need to go search several sites or possibly missing information by skipping a crucial site.

 The Groovebug journey begins on the home screen with a navigable list of artists from the user’s collection and featured content hand curated by artists, DJs, cutting edge labels and festivals. One can tap a tile to explore the performance line-up of an upcoming festival or learn more about an emerging genre.  Each collection of artists offer a new way to discover music. 

“In the move to digital music, we lost the immersive album cover experience.  We want to bring that back, but with all the capabilities of modern technology.  And music magazines don’t offer the personalization that fans want.  Personalization is one of our guiding principals.” says Jeremiah Seraphine, Groovebug’s co-founder and CEO. 

Here’s the download link for the app: http://bit.ly/grvbg!