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Dec 12, 2014 10:52 AM EST

Seven seniors at Trinity College want to change the way their peers listen to music by offering unique predetermined playlists with no ads or interruptions and they call it "Mugatunes."

According to USA Today, the seven students' love of music brought them together and inspired what may be the site's most central feature. All going by their own DJ names, the students design playlists using SoundCloud, but they hang their hat on discovering artists virtually no one has heard of.

Mugatunes is: Frankie Scandale, Stephan Morse, Stefan Harnes, Rob Gau, R.J. Ugolik, Drew Meagher and Tom Romano.

"We try to pride ourselves on finding and discovering songs that may have only a few likes on SoundCloud, and stay away from songs you hear three times when you listen to the radio for an hour," Scandale told USA Today.

Though music sharing is far from an original idea, the Mugatunes team believes they have a truly one-of-a-kind product. Unlike Pandora, they do not count your skips. Unlike Spotify, they do not have ads. Unlike 8Tracks, their playlists do not have a song count.

"We have no plans for ads," Scandale said. "We're doing it cause we believe in it and it's fun. It's for the music and for the people. It's our hobby, we're not doing it for the money."

All Mugatunes authors, as they refer to themselves, come from different backgrounds and have different interests. It is what they believe will make them successful. For one, the music on their site will always be eclectic and secondly, the workload never falls solely on one person.

"I play football and baseball here and I take this [Mugatunes] as a structured hobby," Gau told USA Today. "But it's a hobby that I've done my whole life, dedicating my whole life to music, but now we have a website and it's official."

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