Watercress FM 4.0 release, increase active search function

Recently, Watercress FM from 3.0 a year ago to upgrade to 4.0 (click here to download), in total, this update to keep the product of the control style of watercress. First, the version adds a search function (which can be searched for single), changing the mode of listening to the radio only passively. In addition, when listening to their own like MHz, users can click on the lower left corner of the music to identify "listen to similar songs" to help users find more amenable music. Users can also import mobile phone local music to listen to.

It is noteworthy that, in addition to the more flat, this version of the UI and interactive is very commendable, look at the product team's intentions. Let's get started on our own experience.

The new version also to the previous radio mode to do a certain degree of supplement, the same is followed by the "development of UGC resources" thinking-on the platform on the accumulation of beans Friends of the song (with watercress Music people share music) did "program" processing, is found to be a function of music.

These "programs" are very similar to the popular scene music listening mode, such as Songza, which was recently acquired by Google 39 million dollars, and Jing.fm, which was recently closed. Music streaming with scenes as its characteristic is not so much a kind of music service as it is a complementary function that can be used by all, which is one of the reasons for the less optimistic development of this kind of music service.

But compared to a lot of competing products, the action of watercress is still slow a lot ... As far as the number of songs is concerned, watercress only 200,000 of the song with NetEase Cloud Music released one year accumulated by the so-called 32 million UGC song, the disparity since see-this may be with NetEase cloud music to support the introduction of other music services, and Watercress FM can only create songs on the PC side of the relationship. The recommended function is also NetEase cloud music has already done very shaped, such as based on user taste generation, updated daily "song recommendation", according to the song recommended a similar song list, "like the song of the people also listen to" the music recommended ... Wait, wait.

Even so, the biggest change in the Watercress FM 4.0 is the shift from passive listening to active discovery and search, giving users more opportunities to discover amenable music.