Tastebuds is a
dating
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and
social networking website and
iOS
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app that matches people based on their tastes in music.
Overview
Users can connect with
Facebook
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,
Spotify
Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active us ...
or
Last.fm
Last.fm is a music website founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, e ...
, or enter some of their favorite musical artists to be matched with people who share their musical preferences.
Tastebuds is integrated with popular events service
Songkick
Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. The service allows users to search for upcoming concert events in their area, and also track individual artists to receive notifications of upcoming shows in their area. It also p ...
allowing users to arrange to meet at concerts they're attending.
Messaging is free on the iPhone app, however, it is not free to new website users as of January 2014. Existing users can message anyone.
Tastebuds acquired one of its competitors, moosify in 2014,
Tastebuds Acquires Music-Based Dating App Moosify
/ref> bringing along approximately 100,000 members with it.
See also
* List of online dating websites
This is a partial, non-exhaustive list of notable online dating websites and mobile apps.
All services in the list that have an entry, whether they support heterosexual connections, currently support homosexual connections.
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* Online dating service
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References
Mashable.com
Friday 18, 2010 Mashable.com feature on Tastebuds.fm
Guardian.co.uk
If music be the food of love Tastebuds.fm is on to a winner
Glamour.com
Glamour.com article on Tastebuds.fm
Time.com
Tastebuds.fm Finds Your Musical and Romantic Soulmate For You
Consequence.net
Finding Love Through Music: Online dating app Tastebuds.fm does just that
MTV.com
Is this Music Dating Site the new Tinder?
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External links
Tastebuds website
Tastebuds iPhone app
Online dating services of the United States
Internet properties established in 2010
2010 establishments in the United States