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# Music Tech Hopefuls Demo @ 500 Startups: Console.fm & SingBoard Evade Music Licensing
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/500-startups-consolefm-singboard/
- Published: 2011-08-18T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-08-18T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: Multiple startups being "accelerated" by 500 Startups demoed this week and at least two were focused on music. Console.fm and SingBoard both have a lot of potential and have found. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/08/500-startups-consolefm-singboard.html]
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- Tags: Startups & Funding, Streaming, YouTube & Video, 500 Startups, consolefm, singboard, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

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Multiple startups being "accelerated" by 500 Startups demoed this week and at least two were focused on music. Console.fm and SingBoard both have a lot of potential and have found interesting ways to evade music licensing issues while providing music.

[500 Startups](http://500startups.com/?ref=hypebot.com) is one of the more well known tech incubators in Silicon Valley. They help a lot of folks get their act together and launch, if they haven't already. This week they held a Demo Day [featuring 31 startups](http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/16/live-from-500-startups-demo-day-mcclures-second-batch-of-startups-unleashed/?ref=hypebot.com).

**Console.fm – The Easy Button for Awesome Music**  

[Console.fm](http://console.fm/?ref=hypebot.com) is an electronic music streaming service organized into genres. They launched 4 weeks ago and now have 10,000 users, I assume they mean people who've created accounts, and seem to be off to a good start with some solid media attention.

[Betabeat](http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/11/what-is-console-fm-pandora-meets-turntable-fms-coding-soundtrack-room/?ref=hypebot.com) recently reviewed Console.fm and says they use an algorithm to identify popular electronic tracks online and then use SoundCloud to stream those tracks.

**SingBoard – Where YouTube Meets Karaoke**

[SingBoard](http://www.singboard.com/?ref=hypebot.com) is a pretty cool idea. It's a web karaoke system that uses official music videos with subtitled lyrics, strips out the voice so you can sing and then streams you singing along using your webcam video in a box on the screen.

According to [AllThingsD](http://allthingsd.com/20110812/singboard-karaoke-without-the-cheesy-videos/?ref=hypebot.com), the different elements are layered and are unlicensed but it's a bit unclear if these are actual YouTube videos or come from multiple services.

You can check out more of the startups that demoed via Alexia Tsotsis' post on [TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/16/live-from-500-startups-demo-day-mcclures-second-batch-of-startups-unleashed/?ref=hypebot.com) which is a lot easier to sort out than 500 Startups' site. I guess when you're a tech media darling you can leave some of the promotional details to the media's ravenous interest in such things!

*Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith is a freelance writer and blogger. He is currently relaunching [Flux Research](http://www.fluxresearch.com/?ref=hypebot.com) to pursue his long-standing obsession with web business models. To suggest music services and related topics for review at Hypebot, please contact:*

clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com

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