Online music streaming site Dhingana has introduced a new curated radio stations functionality on its portal. The company claims that these radio stations will be curated by its in-house music experts and the service will initially offer 16 radio stations across various music categories, genres and themes like time of day, weekend specials, meditation, and specific Bollywood star oriented stations. Speaking to Medianama, Dhingana CEO Rohit Bhatia told that the service will be initially rolled out to its web app in the next few days, followed by a wider rollout to other remaining platforms next month. Dhingana currently offers a web app, a mobile web app and native apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows 8. Bhatia claimed that these radio stations will be constantly updated with new content and it will display movie and artist information while the songs are being played on the service. One can also add the current song playing on a radio station to their playlist, thereby improving discoverability of new music tracks or archival music tracks the user might have forgotten over the years. Besides this, one can like, favorite, comment or share these stations with their friends on Facebook and Twitter and it will also feature Open Graph integration to Facebook, which was introduced by the company in May 2012. Going forward, they also plans to introduce new radio stations across other music categories and genres. Note that Dhingana already offers genre and theme based curated playlists on the web and across all its apps but Bhatia said that these are typically curated by Dhingana users while…
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