TruSpot: Africa's Rhapsody - Who knew about this site?

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I was just browsing one of my favorite blogs and ran across a site started by Ikenna Iruzu, basically a spotify, or rhapsody for African entertainment. The website now mainly features Nigerian, Ugandan, Ghanian songs, videos, etc. but it's expanding into SA and other African countries in the future.

Who knew about this site? Get your favorite songs, radio stations, etc anywhere. Download an app to listen for mobile but it's only for blackberry OS right now. iOS and Android are in the making.

link to site: http://www.mytruspot.com/

TruSpot: Africa gets its own Spotify

http://www.techcentral.co.za/truspot...spotify/28432/

Orizu says TruSpot has 89 000 active users a month — or “addicts”, as he calls users who use the service for more than an hour a day on average. There are also more than 35 000 subscribers to the site’s various radio stations. “We’re hoping to double the subscriber figure within the next month.”

At launch, TruSpot focused only on Nigerian music, but Orizu says shortly thereafter “the dream got bigger” and the company decided to look at Africa as a whole. “It was hard to find Nigerian music online, and the same problem existed for the rest of Africa,” he explains.

Ghana and Uganda followed shortly thereafter, and Orizu now wants to take the service to every African nation he can. “Last month, we got an SA representative to work with local record labels,” he says. “We’re working on the SA landing page and hope to launch it properly next month.”

He says the service has a strong presence in Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana and is in the top 500 most popular websites in each of those markets. Eventually, he hopes to have a custom landing page and service offering for every African nation.

The greatest challenge facing the service is the lack of bandwidth in Africa. To cope with this, the service dynamically adjusts the rate at which content is streamed, depending on speed of the user’s connection. At highest quality, TruSpot offers 256kbit/s streaming audio, and between 96kbit/s and 128kbit/s on the low end.

“The music is African, but we say we offer music and entertainment by Africans,” says Orizu. He says the site includes US and European music, too, because much of it is African-influenced.

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well now you do!