During this year-and-a-half engagement, Iflexion’s team revisited the iOS and Android applications in the BYO Channel suite, to provide their users with an improved experience of collecting and sharing their favorite tracks on the go, with the ability to create channels, personalize their design, and add new songs.
BYO Channel Apps: Core Features
Search
Users can search BYO’s vast collection by tracks, artists, albums, lyrics, and other users. They can also sort and filter tracks, listen to a short track sample right on the search results page, add tracks to their new and existing channels, and add tracks to favorites.
Search results are shown as a list from where users can access the artist’s page, album page, or a user’s profile page. Users can visit each other’s pages and view the channels created by them.
Building a channel
Users can add tracks to their channels, name channels, add descriptions and tags, as well as set cover images. Each channel can be published as public or private.
Channel player
The channel player suggests several algorithms that can be set up for a channel, with the chosen algorithm adjusting to the tracks added. Depending on the tracks, the algorithm sets up playback according to its specified parameters. In the channel player interface, users can manage the channel, play it in Chromecast, and share it on social networks.
DiJi®
This trademark feature allows users to record and edit their own voice tracks, which can be then added to existing or new channels. The feature is available by subscription only and comes in three editions−basic, premium, and X.
In-app advertising
There are three types of in-app ads, shown or played to users unless disabled through a commercial-free subscription:
- Banner ads, displayed on the app screens
- Music ads, short tracks integrated into the playback queue
- Channel image ads, which can be placed by users as sponsored cover images for their channels