Future Perfect Radio: Good programming, bad deployment
September 21, 2009 – 9:58 am
A mention of Future Perfect Radio made the new issue of Wired magazine. Future Perfect Radio is newish web radio featuring over 25 channels of independent music — everything from singer/songwriters to far out experimental and noise rock. And stations dedicated to upcoming music festivals add a particular uniqueness.
The past couple of days I’ve been listening to my fair share of mainly three of four of its channels. The programming is pretty damn good which is the most important factor.
Where Future Perfect Radio gets it wrong is in deployment and distribution — basically how you can listen. As far as I know, you must visit the site and launch a pop-up player. The ability to block an artist on the site’s player is a plus, but why no iTunes integration? Why no option to embed? I want to be able to listen in a variety of ways. Allowing multiple listening methods would only expand Future Perfect Radio’s span, scope and listenership.
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One Response to “Future Perfect Radio: Good programming, bad deployment”
Hey, Michael Schmitt here, music director for Future Perfect Radio. Wanted to extend a belated thanks for this write-up, and point out some recent developments which may help remedy our previously bad deployment.
An iPhone app from AccuRadio (FPR’s parent company) just got released: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=351425453&mt=8
You can listen to Future Perfect Radio streams on the go for free from that app, as you can on AccuRadio’s app for Palm webOS devices (Pre and Pixi)!
Embedding, iTunes integration and other features are certainly in the works. Thanks again for the write-up, the kind words and the very helpful criticism!
By Michael Schmitt on Jan 21, 2010