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"Berlin startup Aupeo turns your iPad into a personal radio station with a beautiful,\u00A0lightweight\u00A0and amazingly fast new app.\r\n\r\nFor very good reasons, music streaming services have become extremely popular.\u00A0While you for sure know about Spotify, last.fm and Pandora, chances are, you haven't heard about Aupeo yet. This is despite the fact that the company's music discovery services come preinstalled on more than 25 million devices, amongst them Sonos popular wireless home entertainment products.\r\n\r\nAupeo's catalog comprises more than 900.000 titles, similar to what Pandora offers.\u00A0Based on algorithms developed at the\u00A0renowned\u00A0Fraunhofer Institute, inventors of the MP3 format, Aupeo constantly learns about your music habits and makes discovering new tunes a fantastic experience.\r\n\r\nFor those frustrated by the limited geographical reach of apps like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify, Aupeo's service is already available in over 40 countries across the globe.\r\n\r\nThe Aupeo iPad app truly turns your tablet into a great personal radio station.\u00A0It by far is the most intuitive and easy way to discover new music on an iPad. Through an extremely smooth user interface with high quality animations everywhere, you\u00A0pick your genre, fine tune via the so-called 'mood tuner', and Aupeo starts building your 'music DNA'.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe app is fully integrated into the iPad's music player controls and seamlessly\u00A0continues\u00A0to stream your favorite music while it's running in the background.\u00A0I soon found myself listening to it all the time, whether I was reading books with the Kindle app, surfing the web or responding to email.\r\n\r\nSo far, the issue with infinite music access \u00E0 la Spotify has always been the lack of discovery. Aupeo solves it in the most elegant way we've yet seen on an iPad. Besides the algorithm driven compilation, users can also pick from hundreds of music stations, curated by DJs worldwide or simply pick their favorite artists.\r\n\r\nAupeo is a free download from the App Store, supported by ads. The company also offers a premium subscription for US$ 4.95 per month.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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