Melo is an audio-based social media app created to connect underground artists with listeners in a guaranteed fashion—think of it as a combination of TikTok and SoundCloud, where musicians post 30-second snippets to a TikTok-like feed, and listeners receive bite-sized chunks of really cool music from artists they've never heard of. If they like the snippet of a released song, they can stream it directly on any streaming platform.
So how does it really work?
For Artists:
Gone are the days where you have to act like a content creator just to go viral on social media. Melo is a "one-stop shop" for sharing your music and engaging with your fans; our algorithm ensures that we will find a quality, long-term audience for you. The best part? The only thing that matters is the quality of your music.
For Listeners and Fans:
In Melo, you can immerse yourself in your favorite up-and-coming artist's journey. Not only do you discover new music, but you can engage with the artist in new ways. The more you engage with artists, the more others will follow you for your music taste.
We look forward to changing the variety of problems that exist in the music industry, and with your help, we can make it a better place for everyone. Thank you for taking the time to join our community, and we hope you stick around to join this rapidly growing wave early!
Because we are at the earliest stages, we know that not everything will be perfect. Please give us any feedback so that we can make this the best possible platform for underground music.
Terms of Use: https://github.com/Melo-Music/EULA
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Is Melo free?
Yes, Melo is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Melo legit?
🤔 The Melo app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
Great concept, definitely needs some more work. Seems odd to me that you can only upload released music if you're on Spotify or apple music. So you can't link anything from SoundCloud. I tried uploading songs from my files (unreleased songs) but it doesn't even let me upload them. The app also kicks me out a lot randomly. I'm still hopeful for the future of this app though. Has a lot of potential
slay app. slay mission.
sick stuff! forever a melo supporter
Good
It’s a great app.. won’t let me upload a profile pic though.. lol
Great Idea, Not Great Execution
Love the idea and concept! It’s a really cool way to find new artists you might enjoy, and it isn’t as much sensory overload as TikTok/IG/etc. That being said, it needs some work from a programming and marketing perspective.
To say the app is buggy is an understatement. Uploading media to the app is kind of a nightmare, and notifications register about 20% of the time. Speaking of uploading media, an app that caters to enthusiasts of underground music, but has no option to upload WAV files makes zero sense to me. Connecting to servers takes way longer than it should as well. Needs some fine-tuning.
If you are a bedroom pop/rap/hiphop artist, you’ll find your audience on this app. If you literally do any other genre of music, there is no market for it. Much of what I find on the app sounds very similar to each other, and there isn’t so much an audience as there is a bunch of other musicians liking each other’s content. There is no way to reliably track metrics (I.e. who has actually seen what you post, how long they listened to the track), which can be hard to determine if your tracks are getting shown to anyone at all.
Love the idea and would happily endorse if the app worked better.
Potential
Great app, just needs continuous improvement and added features until it is pretty much as functionable as SoundCloud respectively , better searching and stations etc , just anything to make it more social and bandcamp soundcloud oriented
Just a few things
The concept of the app is really good and as an end user I notice a few things that could really improve the app such as:
Better Spotify integration
Maybe there is a quick way to like a song and it automatically gets added to your liked songs on Spotify
And a general polishing of the app would be nice other than that you’ve done a great job with the app and I look forward to future updates.
Terrible
I downloaded this app to find new music and promote my own. Ive had the app for two weeks and i have had a video up since the day I downloaded it and i haven’t received a single comment like or even one view. Also when searching for music they would not show the genres i had selected and instead inly showed other ones
Looking forward to my Melo journey!
firstly, i am stoked to begin my journey on Melo & what it could lead to with my music career!
super unique & innovative. i’m excited to see where Melo goes in the near future!
my only “complaint” would be tiny glitches here & there. my profile would be fully loaded, but the whole page is blank. i’ve only had one instance of it crashing on me.
perhaps an issue on my side?
perhaps little bugs that can be tweaked as time goes on?
regardless, i’ve already found great artists music! this app gets me excited to connect with underground artist like myself!
looking forward to the future for this app.
Great app but needs some more work
Conceptually really great for underground artists and it’s been nice to show my past releases to new people while discovering new music as well! App needs some fixes though:
- super long loading time for screens and overall some glitches here and there
- can’t reply to comments on a post
- need to link other social media like Tiktok and Twitter
- sound bite auto reset, once the 30 seconds are up it should reset for me to play the bite again instead of me having to drag the slider
- Spotify button and account integration so I can jump to Spotify to play a new song I found, only goes to Apple Music and at the moment I gotta write stuff down
- dark mode
With the right updates this app will be the perfect hub for underground artists!!
Needs work lol
I saw it on TikTok and was like aw that’s Wasup. I downloaded it and went to upload a song. It’s hard to choose a snippet of the song you want to post, It bugs and freezes. after finally getting it how I wanted, I posted it, i got a notification saying upload was successful and then a few seconds later it says upload failed. I’ve tried multiple different ways to get it to work but it fails. The app crashes too. Great concept and gots potential it just isn’t there yet. Hopefully they can fix the bugs. when they do I’m sure it’ll be a five star app. Until then this beta app isn’t any good.
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