Jukestar - Party Host - Social

Jukestar App

About this app

Love great music and have Spotify Premium? Use the Jukestar jukebox to start the music democracy at your next party. Fire the DJ; with guest request and voting capability, now everyone can get involved in the music:
★ No one can hog the playlist
★ The good stuff gets played
★ The bad stuff disappears!

Create a party and share with your guests. They can now use their phone (without needing Spotify) to make requests from the millions of tracks available on Spotify, vote for the songs they like and veto the songs they hate.

The Jukestar jukebox will automatically distribute the songs in the playlist based on who requested what, when they requested it and what other guests think of the songs in the jukebox.

Features:
★ Guests can request from the millions of tracks available on Spotify using their phone (without needing Spotify)
★ Guests can upvote or veto any of the songs in the playlist
★ The upcoming queue is distributed and updated automatically
★ Guest requests will be spread out in the queue so everyone’s music gets played
★ The more guests upvote someone's song, the sooner it will be played
★ The more guests veto someone's song, the further it will move down the queue
★ When enough guests veto a song, it disappears from the queue
★ As a host, you can overrule any song
★ As a host, you can force any song to play next

The host app requires a Spotify Premium account (a 30 day free trial is available from Spotify). Guests do not need a Spotify account.

Are you a GUEST at a Jukestar party? Download the Jukestar Guest app. It’s free!

The Jukestar Guest app uses tokens for requesting, but don’t worry: We have carefully designed the token system so that guests can participate without having to pay for tokens. In fact, more than 95% of Jukestar parties run without guests paying. More info here: https://jukestar.mobi/tokens-wont-cause-issues-and-well-explain-why/

Ratings and reviews

Decent but needs work - Great idea, technically works well, but similar to the guest app it's layout let's it down a lot Needs better controls, a bigger play button, the skip button shouldn't be hidden away and volume controls would be good. Would also be nice to easier change the backup playlist Should include features of the guest app rather than needing to switch apps if host wants to add a song? Backup playlist should be allowed to repeat concept 5* User friendliness 2*

It is good but two problems that make it unusable for me: 1. Getting the app installed for guests and logging them on took between five and ten minutes per guest. 2. After a while there was only one person adding songs, and they were good choices, but he could only add two and then had to wait for an amount of time or buy tokens. So I gave up on jukestar for our party and i just sent everyone a collaborative spotify playlist to add music to. And then the party was fun again!

Token based system makes the user experience slow and painful to the point where nobody was interested in taking the time to buy into the contrived system required to gain any functionality. Could have been a good app that provides a function that Spotify desperately needs and should have already developed and integrated into their interface.

What's new

📻 INTRODUCING JUKESTAR RADIO 📻: Interactive radio stations where everyone is in control of the music!
★ We’ve made parties awesome, now it’s time to bring the music democracy to radio stations!
★ Instead of a single DJ or a Top 40 list, why not let all the radio listeners be in charge of what gets played?
★ After updating to the latest versions of the Jukestar Host and Guest apps, use the Jukestar Guest app to find and join a radio station.
★ https://jukestar.mobi/introducing-jukestar-radio/