# Features (Current & Planned)

The following is a list of the HIO dApp features, both current and planned.\
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**Current Features:**\
\- Music streaming player\
\- Commenting & Liking\
\- Commercial & Indie Label Catalogues\
\- Content Management System (back-end uploads for labels)\
\- Ability to upload user-generated content\
\- Free NFT minting in-app via Solana blockchain\
\- Crypto payments for NFTs via EukaPay\
\- Credit Card payments for NFTs via Stripe\
\- Dashboard: Tracking NFT Sales & Payouts\
\- Gated paywalls via NFTs to Pre-Release Albums\
\- Exclusive user-generated content\
\- Music Discovery: search by Users, Genre, Label\
\- Ability to create playlists\
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**Upcoming Features:**\
\- Same Music Catalogues as leading DSPs (100M songs like Spotify, Apple, Deezer, Tidal)\
\- Music compression for high quality format (wav, aiff, flac) conversion to highest quality streaming on upload\
\- Music Discovery: AI algorithm to help with discovering new music via George Brown's AI program\
\- NFT Revenue Shares: Fractionalizing Revenue from all content\
\- Direct Messaging\
\- Subscriptions\
\- Advertising + Sponsored Posts\
\- Dashboard: Per-User Engagement Algorithm\
\- Dashboard: Per-User Engagement Payouts\
\- Content Management System (Bulk uploads for labels/distributors in DDEX format)\
\- AR/VR Experiences\
\- Desktop app version\
\- Sharing via direct links to albums/posts<br>