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Honestly, my impression of this site is that the creators don't listen to much music. I know it’s probably not true, and that it sounds pretty snobby, but for i

Honestly, my impression of this site is that the creators don't listen to much music. I know it’s probably not true, and that it sounds pretty snobby, but for instance, segmenting by a genre as broad as Rock is too reductive. There are possibly hundreds of rock subgenres, many of which have very different audiences, with some overlap. Take Pop Rock vs punk vs grindcore vs metal vs folk rock vs whatever. And then all of the subgenres within those. Subgenreception. IMO, community curation isn't something that will work very well with music, though I'd love to be proved wrong. Somebody said something about subreddits in another comment, and that analogy seems good. There is also another startup that collaborated with metal musicians and had them build out radio shows, which also seems promising - especially because it's addressing a very specific market. Also, 20 seconds is way too long to listen to a song that you know you're not going to like from the first couple of seconds.

LaunchSong 6y ago
Hey, thanks for checking out the site. I do listen to a lot of music and I definitely agree with you about the music genres. The issue is just ensuring there are enough listeners and musicians per genre. The site is very new and we are slowly increasing the number genres as we expand. We started out with only 4 genres and are now up to 8. We look to support many more in the future. As for the 20 second time for more casual listening I recommend listen or skip mode where you build up quick skips and can skip to the next song 3 seconds in. For the ranking mode it is very important to artists that the people ranking their music and determining its exposure give it a chance.
oliv__ 6y ago
> Also, 20 seconds is way too long to listen to a song that you know you're not going to like from the first couple of seconds. I second this, I had actually managed to create a ranking but wasn't able to submit due to the 20s minimum.

LaunchSong 6y ago

Hey, thanks for checking out the site. I do listen to a lot of music and I definitely agree with you about the music genres. The issue is just ensuring there are enough listeners and musicians per genre. The site is very new and we are slowly increasing the number genres as we expand. We started out with only 4 genres and are now up to 8. We look to support many more in the future. As for the 20 second time for more casual listening I recommend listen or skip mode where you build up quick skips and can skip to the next song 3 seconds in. For the ranking mode it is very important to artists that the people ranking their music and determining its exposure give it a chance.

oliv__ 6y ago

> Also, 20 seconds is way too long to listen to a song that you know you're not going to like from the first couple of seconds. I second this, I had actually managed to create a ranking but wasn't able to submit due to the 20s minimum.