Amsterdam, August 17, 2011 - Today Shuffler.fm, an audio magazine powered by music blogs , launches new features for its webapp and announces its upcoming iPad app.

Shuffler.fm, which turns blogs into radiostations, is often breathlessly compared as a blog-powered version, of the recently gone public, Pandora or as a Stumbleupon for music, due to it’s nature to visually “shuffle” through music blogs while playing one continuous stream.

Today the site takes further steps towards its goal of becoming the best online spot for curated music. These days cutting edge new music is found on blogs. Blogs are today’s tastemakers and gatekeepers, functioning like record labels by curating the music information overload and breaking new, unknown, acts before anyone else knows about them. Shuffler.fm taps into blog-powered curation to create an audio magazine made by music blogs. It’s a great way to stay on top of what’s hot, fresh and new.

Users could already browse through music blogs by genre, but now can channel surf through the music web with additional features such as:

Play a Blog. Navigate through a directory of thousands of music blogs and play just your favourite blog in one continuous mix, a radio station made from your favourite blog. For example, play Pitchfork Radio here 

Popular. Browse through the web’s most popular songs and artists. Play the chart and the blogs posting about them. Like a blog you find? Play its individual channel or subscribe to its music feed.
 
Search. Search the music blogosphere for your favourite artists and blogs posting about them.

Personal channel. Save your favourite tracks to your own personal audio magazine and subscribe to your favourite music blogs and receive updates from them.

Blog accounts. Music blogs can now setup their own accounts via http://shuffler.fm/blogs Bloggers get new tools and buttons for their blog, such as the Play This Blog button which launches the blog’s own channel.

Finally, Shuffler.fm will release a iPad app in the coming months and is just awaiting approval from the Apple App Store. The Shuffler.fm app is made especially for the iPad and truly creates an audio magazine made by music blogs.