The company’s founder, Rob Lewis, believes the system will draw in those for whom the current apps feel like too much hassle, and will turn listening to music into a shared experience. “We want everyone to be able to listen to the music they want, and to be able to listen together. Life is best lived with the sound of music, not silence. TV is still the number one bit of kit in the living room, and we’re going to fill it with the music you love.” Everyone in the music industry who we’ve talked to has noticed that less and less people are engaged in music,” Lewis said. “Technology has pushed a lot of people away from music by making it this annoying thing. There used to be 200 million people who would buy at least one CD every month. Streaming services have been around for 10 years, but only 40 million [people] have signed up to use them. We’re trying to make streaming as easy to use as the radio. The challenge for the design team was to build something that people can take out of the box, plug in, and they’re instantly listening to music.” The Electric Jukebox Company Electric Jukebox's user interface incorporated neon [14] iconography and music songs and albums represented as spinning disks – a digital manifestation of a physical music product; a CD. The user interface was met with mixed reactions from commentators; several technology-focused media outlets have said the user interface is overly simple compared to other services [15] while mainstream consumer media view the simplicity of Electric Jukebox as opening up music streaming to audiences who are alienated by the complexities of music streaming. [6] CNET commented "Here's an easy way to think about Electric Jukebox: Remember when the Nintendo Wii came out, and suddenly the whole family, who didn't know their Atari from their elbow, was jumping around the living room playing video games? Spotify is the PlayStation, Sonos is the Xbox – and Electric Jukebox is the Wii." [4] Features [ edit ] Voice search [ edit ] I love a good old fashioned jukebox, although you don’t see these very often now. Also, they are absolutely huge things and must take up a colossal amount of room. No regular home these days has room for something like that, but also the way we are with music, no regular jukebox could possibly supply the amount of music we require. The Culture Secretary’s former boss, Margaret Thatcher, became an evangelist for technology entrepreneur Sir Clive Sinclair in the early 80s when his ZX Spectrum became the most successful British home computer ever made. The PM personally presented a Spectrum to the Japanese Prime Minister as a symbol of British technological prowess.

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of the consumers here in the UK are not doing streaming. If you go to France it’s 95% or 96%. Fundamentally what we’re trying to achieve is the idea that, a bit like the CD player made CDs a format that was just plug and play, let’s create a device that does that for streaming, focused on the home and for the whole family to share.” Crow provided this quote for the company’s press release: “I love Electric Jukebox because it brings people together. Listening to music and sharing those experiences together is what life’s all about. With headphones and iPhones we’ve somehow lost all that. Electric Jukebox plugs into your TV and turns it into a jukebox with all the music you want, played out loud in your home for you to listen together. Simple, fun, and no fuss.” The Electric Jukebox Company It also hooks you up with a variety of radio stations as well as offering music-based entertainment. a b Travis, Ben. "Electric Jukebox: The plug-and-play device for listening to music in your home", The Independent, London, 23 October 2015. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.There is the set-top-esque brains of the operation, and a wireless controller wand that also doubles up as a microphone. I had a call with a journo late last night who was going ‘why are you going into the streaming market? You’re mad!’ Perhaps I am…” You plug the HDMI dongle into your TV and the user interface appears on the screen. You can either use the TV’s onboard speakers or connect your TV to a soundbar or A/V receiver. Lewis suggested that many of those retailers have been shut out of the music-streaming ecosystem thus far, which he sees as another opportunity for Electric Jukebox.

It would sit in John Lewis right next to those radios, and would have all the same radio channels. But on top of that it’s full on-demand, and roughly the same price as a Roberts Radio. That’s the kind of next product we’re looking at.” If that’s all a bit physical, you also have the option to search using voice command. Music library Building a music-streaming service is just one part of what we’re doing here. We’ve obviously got manufacturing, industrial design, logistics, retail channels to support, TV shopping channels, and then layered on top of that getting the rightsholders on board with economics that actually make this a sustainable business,” saidLewis.

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Newton, Thomas. " Chromecast-for-tunes service Electric Jukebox summons Stephen Fry and Robbie Williams to take on Spotify", Recombu, London, 14 October 2015. Retrieved on 12 November 2015. Bupa shuts cash plan of 78-year old woman that paid in for almost 40 years - with less than three months notice Apple turned up with the iPod / iTunes combination, and the iPod was easy to set up and easy to use. iTunes had that too, but they made their money by having a reasonably decent margin on the hardware, and a relatively small margin on the content,” he says. Electric Jukebox featured exclusive playlists from a range of celebrities, including; Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field, [16] Sheryl Crow, Alesha Dixon and Stephen Fry. [17] Curated music channels [ edit ] Snider, Mike. "Plug and play device transforms your TV into the Electric Jukebox", USA Today, London, 14 October 2015. Retrieved on 6 November 2015.

Users control their selection from a voice-operated Wii-style “magic wand.” The Electric Jukebox only works via a television set and cannot be used to build a music collection on mobile devices, flying in the face of current digital music trends. It’s perhaps easiest to look at Roxi as the musical equivalent as your set-top streaming telly box. It even connects your TV. Granted, soundbars and external speakers are available but one of the selling points of the Electric Jukebox was its cost and ease of use. Rob Lewis made a point of the high cost and relatively low adoption of multiroom speakers, such as Sonos, to use with streaming services. There’s the cost of improving the sound from your television if you care about audio fidelity and don’t have existing equipment, which seems at odds with Electric Jukebox’s main selling point. But, as Rob Lewis puts it, “Electric Jukebox isn’t for everyone but it is still for hundreds of millions of people”.In true karaoke fashion, plenty of reverb is added to your vocals. I did notice quite a bit of lag from singing to hearing my voice through the telly. I'm a postman - morale is at an all-time low: What posties REALLY think of Royal Mail... and why you're waiting weeks for post We’re 11 years down the road now with streaming, and although we [in the industry] all think – because we’re massively into it – that the whole world streams music and has Spotify subscriptions, clearly the vast majority of people out there on the street are not doing that,” he said.