Style Jukebox was a hi-fi

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cloud music streaming and storage player for the

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, Android and

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platforms. A Web Player was also available for Mac,

and

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. Style Jukebox allowed users to upload their personal music collection from their computer to Style Jukebox servers and listen to them from another compatible device ( Android,

, Mac, and

) by streaming or downloading songs for offline playback. Basic accounts had 10 GB of storage. Pro accounts could have up to 2 TB of music. As of July 2016, Style Jukebox had more than 250,000 registered users. On December 1, 2017, Style Jukebox discontinued their service with a very small post on their home page, and no further details were released.

Features

* Native music applications for Windows, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. * Automatic import from

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, OneDrive and

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available on Web, Windows, iOS and Windows Phone * Special upload native software is available for Macs * Store up to 2 TB of music as a Pro user * Stream music playlist over cellular data/ WiFi * Reduce data plan by downloading song on the phone. Selective download * Support for most popular music file formats:

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, AAC, WMA, OGC, M4A and lossless FLAC,

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and ALAC ( ALAC) * File size up to 1 GB * Audio quality up to 24bit/192kHz/7.1 surround * Browse music by Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres and Composers. * Edit song title, album title, artist name and genre from Style Jukebox or Windows or Style Jukebox Web Player. * Support for lossless audio playback on Chromecast (Google Cast)

Technology

Style Jukebox consisted of cloud-based services for user management, music storage and programmatic interfaces (

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s); and clients for music streaming and storage on desktop and mobile operating systems. Upload was available on the desktop client only; Style Jukebox enabled users to drop music files and folders in the music player to be automatically uploaded and synced with Style Jukebox cloud-based services and made available to any other of the user's computers and devices that also have the Style Jukebox client installed. Style Jukebox cloud-based services automatically transcoded formats to match the device's supported formats. For example, a 320kbit/s WMA was transcoded to 320kbit/s MP3 on iOS devices and FLAC lossless was transcoded to WMA lossless on Windows Phone devices.

References

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