Sohood let me know about a piece of software I am surprised we have not mentioned before. Its called Strands Social Player and is intended to help you find music you will like on your Berry. Kind of like a social network for music. The features sound pretty cool and it is definitely worth checking out if you listen to music on the go. It even includes Last.fm & Twitter scrobble support.
The desktop install can be found at this link on the product page but I cannot seem to find an OTA install option. Let me know if you find one.
The award-winning Strands Social Player is a music player that lets you discover new music, connect with people, and share your tastes with friends. Install, listen, discover… and enjoy.
A powerful music tool for your mobile device
- Discover like-minded people, who like listening to the same songs you are playing, with the innovative “Who’s Listening” feature.
- Send messages, discuss upcoming artists, see what other users have listened to, keep an ear on what’s hot.
- Connect with a social network of music enthusiasts with song recommendations from over 6 million songs featuring free previews and cover art.
- Scrobble to Last.fm and Twitter.
- The Strands Social Player is available for Symbian phones (Nokia S60 3rd edition), Java/J2ME phones (Nokia S40), Windows Mobile devices and now also for use with BlackBerry. Download the Strands Social Player to your BlackBerry today!
Luciano ES ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 448
Posted: February 6, 2009 at 3:22 PM EST
I would like to have that application. But lack of OTA is a major inconvenience to me. I won’t be booting into a Windows machine anytime soon.
Bla1ze ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 8
Posted: February 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM EST
Need an invite code, otherwise you just sit in beta land waiting for someone to get back to you.
Paul Not Registered
Posted: February 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM EST
This program isn’t quite what I was expecting. I was hoping for something like Slacker, where you can listen to new music from their servers.
Strands is more of a monitor for stuff you have put on your memory card to listen to. Pretty much just a Scrobbler (for those last.fm users).
It’s interesting, and I probably won’t delete it quite yet, but not what I was expecting.
prp2 Not Registered
Posted: February 8, 2009 at 4:23 AM EST from my BlackBerry 8320
This looks like something I’d like to use, since currently there’s no other way really to scrobble my songs to Last.fm from my BB. The problem is that this program keeps hanging (and eventually getting terminated) at the “Building Library” step. Rather annoying.
NotSoStable Not Registered
Posted: February 8, 2009 at 10:15 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9000
Okay, I got it installed but it won’t let me connect to anything.
I couldn’t create an account using the application so I did it through my browser. When I try to sign in using the app it keeps telling me invalid user/pass. Same thing for my Twitter.
Not off to a good start.
Doc Not Registered
Posted: February 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM EST
Anyone successfully got it to scrobble to last.fm? It shows a scrobble option under twitter settings, but i dont want to fill up twitter with every freaking song i listen to.
Truth Theory Not Registered
Posted: March 4, 2009 at 2:10 AM EST
I have this app installed and it works accept I keep getting an error (invalid username/password) when I try to log into twitter to scrobble there. It works fine for last.fm, but no joy for twitter, any help?