http://fettig.net/weblog/2011/11/28/listening-room-shutting-down-december-2/

brought to my attention by the inimitable Howard S. Ya.

That basically gives those of us who've been frequenting TLR and Mumu before it a week to look over our options and make recommendations. I feel like if we had a site combining the strengths of those two it'd be killer, but alas.

Preferred characteristics, if anyone has a contender or if any developers are combing the OKP forums looking for ideas:

Major:
-it works
-everyone in the room gets to program music
-no max # contributors (at least not an unreasonably low # like 5)
-no points/popularity system
-no FB/Twitter necessary for those of us still in the 2000s

Less important:
-no limit on artist/song/album plays in a row
-no available library (I feel like that's a crutch, but I know some people like it)

Of contested importance:
-playlist visibility (to others)
-playlist flexibility
-cute avatars
-accurate 'time elapsed' functions so we have an idea how long the song is
-ability to jump around within the same song