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Tried "the wombats." Artist not found. "Clutch" found results, but the first three songs were pretty painful. "Mos Def" and I'm happy. What's behind the recomm

Tried "the wombats." Artist not found. "Clutch" found results, but the first three songs were pretty painful. "Mos Def" and I'm happy. What's behind the recommendations? Is it manual (like Pandora)? How are you approving music? There's a reason some new music never gets heard. I'd be really interested in hearing how you solved the quality control challenge. At some point, an artist is going to stop being "up & coming." Why not use Open Graph and Connect for likes and logins? I think I've been listening for about 25 minutes. I like listening to it, but visual seems pretty disconnected. I really like the way rdio is doing their playlist and controls.

bandhunt 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be importing a bunch more artists in the near future so "the wombats" etc will give results. The recs are more "digg like" so there's a bit of a cold-start problem with some of quality. Once we see how people are using it we'll tweak the algo. We'll be adding Connect soon and are looking into who we can leverage the FB likes but there are limitation with the callbacks.
bandhunt 16y ago
"visual seems pretty disconnected" can you give me some more specifics. That'd be really helpful!
- malbiniak 16y ago
  this could be tough to translate in written form. the visual design of the playback screen (http://beta.isound.com/#/artists?search=outkast http://beta.isound.com/#/artists?search=outkast) is confusing and unbalanced. maybe it's the repetitive use of the play button (search, similar songs). maybe it's each song being in its own container. maybe it's the lack of visual emphasis on any one area (the shared white between the header, player, and playlist). ultimately, i like this (http://grab.by/5f07 http://grab.by/5f07) over this (http://grab.by/5f04 http://grab.by/5f04). sorry i can't be more specific.

bandhunt 16y ago

Thanks for the feedback! We'll be importing a bunch more artists in the near future so "the wombats" etc will give results. The recs are more "digg like" so there's a bit of a cold-start problem with some of quality. Once we see how people are using it we'll tweak the algo. We'll be adding Connect soon and are looking into who we can leverage the FB likes but there are limitation with the callbacks.

bandhunt 16y ago

"visual seems pretty disconnected" can you give me some more specifics. That'd be really helpful!

malbiniak 16y ago
this could be tough to translate in written form. the visual design of the playback screen (http://beta.isound.com/#/artists?search=outkast http://beta.isound.com/#/artists?search=outkast) is confusing and unbalanced. maybe it's the repetitive use of the play button (search, similar songs). maybe it's each song being in its own container. maybe it's the lack of visual emphasis on any one area (the shared white between the header, player, and playlist). ultimately, i like this (http://grab.by/5f07 http://grab.by/5f07) over this (http://grab.by/5f04 http://grab.by/5f04). sorry i can't be more specific.