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Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com
- inportb 15y agoVery nice! I seem to have hit a bug, though. The color selection is always many pixels below my mouse cursor.
- alttag 15y agoSame here. Safari 5.05, OS X 10.6.8. (Tested in Firefox 5; same problem.)
- josegonzalez 15y agoSame issue, but on Chrome for Mac, version 12.0.742.112.
- chippy 15y agoNot streamable in my region (UK) :(
- mgl 15y agostream does not play in Poland as well
- spacemanaki 15y agoPretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for some well known artist before even hearing the song.
- markkat 15y agoI agree. Otherwise you are inadvertently asking for the color of the artist too. Very interesting idea, though.
- jannes 15y agoThe stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea. What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random. If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of that data. Another idea: You could compare the colors with the cover art of the respective albums to see if there are matches.
- paulcedars 15y agoThis is really cool. I think it would be better for user engagement to not automatically show what other users chose, and also to have the next song start streaming automatically if the user chose a color for the previous song. I could see going tvtropes on the site and inadvertently spending a lot of time there if it was easier to maintain my mental flow.
- mousa 15y agoNice idea. So far the only patterns though are girl singer = pink and rap = red.
- burke 15y agosad song = blue seems to be a strong trend too.
- a3r0 15y agoSmall bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black
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- joeyespo 15y agoCool! Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your personal playlist.
- flexd 15y agoTells me it can't play because of the region (Norway) and also the text in the player is nearly unreadable with some sort of color distortion.
- tanay46 15y agoVery nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoThat seems more likely to lead people (not sure which way though). For example if a song had a dark background (because of previous choices) then people might choose a contrasting background, etc.. It would be interesting to match up after a while with a similar project using "mood words" to create a map of mood to colour which could be broken down by region, by music preferences and such.
- flexterra 15y agoTells me it can't play because of the region (Puerto Rico)
- hvass 15y agoHow about soundcloud? Works for everyone I think?
- onassar 15y agoWould love to get a take on this idea from someone who has color synesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_color_synesthesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_col...)
- alttag 15y agoInteresting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.
- frankdenbow 15y agoCool stuff! You might like http://huesound.org/ http://huesound.org/ from Music Hack Day in SF this year.
- bostich 15y agoi dont think it is supposed to look like this? http://i.imgur.com/wPqrq.png http://i.imgur.com/wPqrq.png Chrome 14.0.803.0 on windows 7
- Samuel_Michon 15y agoCool idea! Too bad I can't play the audio (Safari on iOS).
- neilk 15y agoInteresting. I'd like to see something similar for shapes. For me, shapes feel like they're more like sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect Of course then you have to design some kind of shape-o-matic interface.
- mw63214 15y agoyou could use the color, translate it to mood, and graph it. i've fiddled with the graphing from mysql to a 3d(css3, html5) cube with points. link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7727742/playlistsite6/index5.html http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7727742/playlistsite6/index5.html use it with this as a template for mapping the emotion: http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/goal_Emotions.htm http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/goal_Emotions.htm I just kind of hit a road-block with getting access to music people wanted to listen to. if you can hack something up with what I've fiddled with, or take any inspiration from it, that would be awesome.