What is Songza?
Songza is an ad-supported music streaming platform that provides users with expertly curated playlists and streaming radio stations tailored to their mood, activity, or listening occasion. Launched in 2010, Songza aims to provide the perfect playlist for any moment.
Rather than offering just genre-based stations, Songza offers stations curated by music experts around specific activities, moods, or situations. For example, users can choose playlists like "Focusing and Studying," "Dinner with Friends," or "Songs for a Rainy Day." Songza also has genre stations, but the focus is on the context - songs that fit a certain moment or feeling users are experiencing.
Key features of Songza include:
- High quality curated playlists based on genre, mood, activity, decade, and more
- Intuitive concierge providing playlist recommendations
- No song skipping limits
- Sync across devices - use on phone, tablet, desktop apps and web
- Free ad-supported listening
In total, Songza provides access to over 500 expertly curated stations. While it lacks some features of leading on-demand streaming platforms like Spotify or Apple Music, Songza's contextual playlists tailored to activities and moods make it unique in the streaming music space.
Spotify, Deezer, Last.fm, TuneIn Radio, Discogs, Funkwhale, Pandora, TIDAL, Jango, iHeart, Jamendo, Libre.fm are some alternatives to Songza.