App Review: Playground.fm – Personalized Playlists from the People who Share your Taste in Music

By Steven Zeisler

Playground.fm is a 100% free, ad-less music app that allows you to browse playlists from people who share your taste in music. The entire platform of the app is dedicated to bringing the user a wide collection of music playlists, ranging from “Indie-ish Rock & Electro” to “Lazy Sunday” to “$WAG,” just to name a few.

Co-founder and head of product development Mehul Trivedi speaks for the Playground.fm team about their inspiration behind making the app. “We fell in love with the playlists created by music fans everywhere, but found it was too much work to find them. We wanted to build a music service that did the work of finding those playlists for us so we could just sit back and listen.”

The user interface of the app allows you to swipe down through a series of tiles organized into two columns, with each tile representing a single playlist. The tiles also show the current song that is playing, the cover art of that artists’ album, and the photo of the person that created the playlist.

Once you choose the desired playlist, you can follow the person who created it and share it to your Twitter followers. The app also gives you the ability to AirPlay your music to wireless speakers, Airport Express, AppleTV, etc.

Audition Your Playlists

In order to get your playlist featured in the app, the Playground.fm crew allows anyone – DJs, music bloggers, playlisters, and music fans everywhere – to submit their Spotify playlist.

“When users submit the playlists, our algorithms show the best playlists for you based on the music you listen to. So if you created a hip-hop playlist, your friends and people who like hip-hop would be able to see and listen to the playlist. The idea here is that what’s popular is boring, and what my friends are doing isn’t enough, so we can be smart enough to surface the right playlists for you and filter through all the noise that’s out there,” said Trivedi.

Think you know great music? Submit your playlist for consideration and download Playground.fm from the App Store.