Yiqilai.com: Yet Another Online Music Discovery Service

Written by Yanqing Chen on November 20, 2007
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Yiqilai.com released its new version in late September 2007 and jumped into China’s online music discovery battle field where 8box.cn, Yobo.com and dola.com.cn already compete against each other. We compared these services earlier here and here.

Like its competitors, Yiqilai.com’s goal is to copy the success of Pandora and Last.fm to China. Yiqilai is more like Last.fm in terms of features and design. It lets user create profile and customize their own music boxes. The music recommending feature is also included as well as some simple social network features. As far as legal issue goes, I don’t find anything in their help and FAQ pages. I assume they are using the similar approach as Yobo.com and other services.

There’s one interesting feature called “Yiqiali Music Assistant”. It is a windows media player plug-in which supports both local and online music lyric matching and all other features of its website. It is a very good feature for users who are still more comfortable listening music locally using media player while taking advantage of Yiqilai’s music recommending and other features.
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I like the potential of Yiqilai and other similar services in this area considering China is going to be the biggest online community in the world down the road and online entertainment including online music services is a great area where startups can have success.

With that being said, they still have a long way to go. Alexa data shows the users in China are using the traditional music sites more than these new web 2.0 services. But I believe time will change everything and all these websites need to do right now is winning the user base battle. Right now I think Yobo is the front runner. It has the best design and best user community. Also it seems to me that Yobo.com has the fastest streaming speed. At least I can listen it here in US while having trouble listening to Yiqilai and other websites.

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  3. Lenti on November 24th, 2007 11:36 pm

    Thanks for sharing the good site. It’s very similar with YOBO from the layout. but even YOBO is not popular here, like what you said. most of people used to access some web1.0 site, just listening… that’s all, still long way to go. these site must find some service to get user sticky.

  4. kongfumusic on November 28th, 2007 5:35 pm

    yep, looks really similiar to Yobo and nothing new; and i agree yobo folks are leading this wave of music 2.0 services in China

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