I hope you’ve all had a chance to check out the new version of Band of the Day, we’re super excited to get it out into the world! As you may notice, the mixtape has changed drastically. Instead of a static list of songs, it’s now a much more fluid thing that draws from the highest rated tracks in the app, creating a listening experience on the fly that lasts for hours. We think it’s better for a lot of reasons, most notably the fact that’s it’s now much longer and changes every time you open the app, rather than when we got a chance to update it, which wasn’t nearly as often as it should have been.

However, we do recognize that some things were lost in this new format, particularly the bonus songs, and would like to apologize to our users who are upset that the songs they earned through sharing have dissappeared. Bonus songs were a feature we had on day 1 of the app’s launch and are proud of, but with all the craziness of maintaining BoD’s editorial schedule and working to improve the app, we only updated the supply of bonus songs once since launch over a year ago. It’s a feature that deserves more love than that. We want to bring it back in future versions, and do it right, and unfortunately we weren’t able to do that in this first release.

There’s a ton of opportunity and cool stuff to implement with this new version of the mixtape from bonus songs to thematic groupings to more direct user input, so thanks for your patience, and look forward to the mixtape getting even more awesome with future updates!