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The site is a lot of fun, but I suspect there is a major novelty effect in play here. Once the excitement of being a DJ wanes, many individuals will prefer site

The site is a lot of fun, but I suspect there is a major novelty effect in play here. Once the excitement of being a DJ wanes, many individuals will prefer sites that grant them more granular control of their playlist, especially once copyright restrictions and intrusive advertising comes into play. The turntable guys are definitely on to something great here, but how long can it last?

pstack 15y ago
I hate Facebook, so I resisted joining the TurnTable.fm beta. I've had a FB account for years, but I don't use it. Just squatting my name. I certainly refuse to tie my account to anything else. However, I made an exception with this site, to try it out. Man, was I surprised. It's everything I despise. It's hip. It's about music. It's about popularity. It's social. It's cute. It's flash-based. And yet, damn it, I am having so much fun with it. Even in rooms built around specific web communities that therefore cause music to run anywhere from techno to hip-hop, to 80s music, to Smell Yo Dick to . . . yes . . . tracks from Steve Martin's banjo performances. I've participated in multi-hour long "songs with a space theme" mixes. I've participated in 90s night. I've participated in bouts of idiocy where we just try to drive a room full of people (and ourselves) nuts playing the most obnoxious songs. And it's just a damn good time. The best part is that even if someone plays something I don't care for, at least I know it's something a human being who likes the song chose as opposed to the automation of every radio station on earth. Over time, I hope they improve how you build your playlist. Maybe given you the option to have multiple lists and a better way to search and organize them. Maybe improve the chat function. Make the interface better (it's just so tiny and limited, right now). Maybe move to HTML5 or something other than Flash. Add some hotkeys, instead of mouse-only. Over time, there will be just a handful of very targeted rooms and then lots of tiny rooms build around communities that have less musical coherence. I think it's bound to get better over time. If not, the next person to come along will surely improve upon it. Either way, it's clever and it's kind of hard to imagine nobody did this before now. Oh . . . and I'm sure they'll be bought by Facebook, anyway. Great way to keep eyeballs on your controlled content.
- avolcano 15y ago
  As far as I can tell, viewing the site in Chrome 12, the only Flash used is in the music player (which makes sense, since Firefox and a few other browsers don't have HTML5 audio MP3 support). The rest is all HTML5.
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pstack 15y ago

I hate Facebook, so I resisted joining the TurnTable.fm beta. I've had a FB account for years, but I don't use it. Just squatting my name. I certainly refuse to tie my account to anything else. However, I made an exception with this site, to try it out. Man, was I surprised. It's everything I despise. It's hip. It's about music. It's about popularity. It's social. It's cute. It's flash-based. And yet, damn it, I am having so much fun with it. Even in rooms built around specific web communities that therefore cause music to run anywhere from techno to hip-hop, to 80s music, to Smell Yo Dick to . . . yes . . . tracks from Steve Martin's banjo performances. I've participated in multi-hour long "songs with a space theme" mixes. I've participated in 90s night. I've participated in bouts of idiocy where we just try to drive a room full of people (and ourselves) nuts playing the most obnoxious songs. And it's just a damn good time. The best part is that even if someone plays something I don't care for, at least I know it's something a human being who likes the song chose as opposed to the automation of every radio station on earth. Over time, I hope they improve how you build your playlist. Maybe given you the option to have multiple lists and a better way to search and organize them. Maybe improve the chat function. Make the interface better (it's just so tiny and limited, right now). Maybe move to HTML5 or something other than Flash. Add some hotkeys, instead of mouse-only. Over time, there will be just a handful of very targeted rooms and then lots of tiny rooms build around communities that have less musical coherence. I think it's bound to get better over time. If not, the next person to come along will surely improve upon it. Either way, it's clever and it's kind of hard to imagine nobody did this before now. Oh . . . and I'm sure they'll be bought by Facebook, anyway. Great way to keep eyeballs on your controlled content.

avolcano 15y ago
As far as I can tell, viewing the site in Chrome 12, the only Flash used is in the music player (which makes sense, since Firefox and a few other browsers don't have HTML5 audio MP3 support). The rest is all HTML5.

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