By Lauren Goode
Online deejays, start your engines: Turntable.fm has gone mobile.
The growing social streaming music service has launched a free iPhone app in the Apple App Store.
TechCrunch previously reported that a Turntable.fm iPhone app was in the works [1] .
Turntable.fm was launched earlier this year by tech entrepreneurs Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein, and was spawned from an earlier venture called StickyBits, an app for scanning barcodes. With Turntable.fm, the company took a new direction, creating a communal music service online, in which users can crowd virtual rooms and take turns spinning songs for one another from one of five deejay spots. The room also has a chat box, and users can rate the songs they hear, as well as purchase them through iTunes or Amazon’s music store.
The free Web service is currently only available to users through Facebook, contingent on at least one Facebook friend already having access to it. Despite the limited access, its virtual rooms have become increasingly crowded in recent weeks, and the service has spread quickly amongst the digerati.
Turntable.fm, like Pandora, operates under the Digital Copyright Millinium Act, or DCMA, which enables the companies to stream music from content libraries without charging for it, but does put some restrictions in place.
Just a week ago, your Digits blogger noted that its biggest missing feature was the lack of a mobile application, to take Turntable.fm on the go.
It is unclear where there will be an app available for other mobile devices, such as Android or RIM BlackBerry. Turntable.fm did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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