Resso, ByteDance’s music streaming app, officially launches in India, sans Tencent-backed Universal Music

Resso, ByteDance’s music streaming app, officially launches in India, sans Tencent-backed Universal Music

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/04/resso-music-india-bytedance/

TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, found a lot of early traction by giving users a way to create funny lip-synced versions of clips from well-known songs and then share them with friends (its predecessor in the West was even called Musically). Now at long last, TikTok’s owner, China’s ByteDance, is doubling down on the music connection with the release of its first standalone full music streaming app, starting first in India.

Today, the company is launching Resso, which describes itself as a “social music streaming app”: users are encouraged to share lyrics, comments and other user-generated content with each other, alongside full-length tracks of music that they can consume and also share with others. And the music begins to auto-play as soon as you open the app.