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March 10, 2011 07:35 am GMT

YC-Funded Earbits Brings A Twist To Music Startups: Online Radio That Lets Bands Pay For Playtime

It's no secret that online music startups are incredibly challenging. It's tough to build an audience, and even when you do, the licensing fees associated with streaming premium content are often deadly. It's so difficult that Y Combinator founder Paul Graham asked imeem (and picplz) founder Dalton Caldwell to give a talk on the subject at last year's Startup School. Which is why today's news is interesting: YC has invested in Earbits, an online radio startup with a twist.From the consumer's perspective, Earbits is an online radio service similar in some ways to Pandora. After arriving at the site, you'll be asked to choose from one of over 40 radio stations (though unlike Pandora you don't seed your playlist with a band or song title ). Click on a genre and the music will start playing "a small, attractive player will be nested at the top of the page, and the rest of the screen will fill up with a large photo of the artist, with their bio and other relevant information below. In general, the design is very well done.

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