LetsListen is the first true social cloud music locker. It lets you store your music in the cloud and play it back anywhere, plus you can let your friends come and listen with you in real-time. If you are interested in us, check us out on AngelList, or for the latest update subscribe to the founder's blog at ColeFlournoy.com.

We absolutely love the music industry and we aim to help it. We don't use license workarounds like grabbing music from youTube videos - we pay license fees for the music you listen to with friends so that in the end, the bands get the hard earned money they deserve.

At our heart, we are a music discovery platform. Nothing gets people more excited about music then when they listen to it together with friends. So - that's what we let you do. Chances are you will hear something you like, and if you want to hear it again or share it in your own room, you can buy it and do that.

We play by the DMCA rules too (we fall under the non-interactive compulsory license). These rules basically say that we can allow your friends to listen to music with you if we pay a small per-listen fee, so long as your friends aren't allowed to have on demand access to your songs (else they wouldn't have any reason to buy the music themselves). We are registered with Ascap, BMI, SoundExchange and the US Copyright Board. To put things simply - our primary revenue model is selling music and because of that our interests are aligned with copyright holders, where it should be.

Here are a few key points on how we comply:

1. We don't preannounce what you are playing. Users can search and see what songs you played previously to get an idea of the type of music in your room, but they can't search for songs coming up in your queue. Users can see songs in the play queue only after they've joined a specific room, and even then - the play queue is not a matter of fact list of what is going to play, because the room owner is adding, deleting, and reordering songs in the queue in real-time.
2. Users can only suggest a song to a room owner, it's the room owner who decides to put the song in the queue or not. Users are not able to request songs on demand or at a certain time in the future.
3. Our users agree that they won't play music which doesn't comply with or is in an order which is not allowed under the non-interactive compulsory license (e.g, 3 songs from the same recording or 2 songs from the same recording in a row, any music not licensed for the US, ect., a song within an hour of being requested), and if someone gives us complaints about a user violating this, they may get their account terminated.

We love music, and hope you do too. If you have any comments, questions, ideas or bugs to report - please let us know here