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Show HN: web-based music player built with Node and CoffeeScript

53 points by AndyKelley 15y ago

AndyKelley 15y ago
By the way... I'm moving to NYC in 16 days and I am looking for room mates. Hit me up!
- bomatson 15y ago
  Nice. Why NYC?
  - AndyKelley 15y ago
    I am joining Indaba Music.
Jonovono 15y ago
Love the look. I made a simple web music player not to long either ago. Check it out: www.tunesicles.com
- AndyKelley 15y ago
  Thanks! It's nice when 95% of the work is done by jQuery UI: http://is.gd/MBSXGQ http://is.gd/MBSXGQ
- agscala 15y ago
  Sorry, but it looks like twitter bootstrap barfed all over... http://i.imgur.com/ReAdC.png http://i.imgur.com/ReAdC.png I'm guessing something went wrong, hence the "Code Corrupted" message.
  - Jonovono 15y ago
    Oh thanks. Havn't realized that. I think it's my statcounter giving that error. I'll have to fix that. Still not done the site - lots left to add. Thanks for checking it out.
AceJohnny2 15y ago
You mention "some might call it an MPD Client"? Why not advertise it as such? Because it might scare away users? What are the features from MPD git that you depend on? How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ? Note that I haven't tried groovebasin yet. [1] http://relaxx.dirk-hoeschen.de/ http://relaxx.dirk-hoeschen.de/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/ http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/
- AndyKelley 15y ago
  Why not advertise it as such? Because there is a huge selection of already existing MPD clients in existence[1] and I'm trying to stand out a bit. [1]: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients What are the features from MPD git that you depend on? Client-to-client communication. Groove Basin uses it to broadcast some status messages to other clients currently connected. Probably going to change the architecture of that soon. Oh, another thing that is relatively new is the sticker file, which is required for Dynamic Mode. (We remember the last-queued date for each track to give bias to not recently queued songs when queuing random songs) How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ? I tried relaXX. I haven't tried MPM, but I checked out a screenshot and read the README. I think when it comes to media players, it's the small things that make a big difference. How intuitive the UI is, whether it is cluttered, whether it feels like the same song keeps coming up on random, how long it takes to browse and queue music, etc. Groove Basin attempts not to have the most features, but to get the small things right. I'll take a deeper look at relaXX and MPM after work and give a better description of the actual differences if you're interested. I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be 1. how easy it is to queue things, and 2. Dynamic Mode.

53 points by AndyKelley 15y ago

AndyKelley 15y ago

By the way... I'm moving to NYC in 16 days and I am looking for room mates. Hit me up!

bomatson 15y ago
Nice. Why NYC?
- AndyKelley 15y ago
  I am joining Indaba Music.

Jonovono 15y ago

Love the look. I made a simple web music player not to long either ago. Check it out: www.tunesicles.com

AndyKelley 15y ago
Thanks! It's nice when 95% of the work is done by jQuery UI: http://is.gd/MBSXGQ http://is.gd/MBSXGQ
agscala 15y ago
Sorry, but it looks like twitter bootstrap barfed all over... http://i.imgur.com/ReAdC.png http://i.imgur.com/ReAdC.png I'm guessing something went wrong, hence the "Code Corrupted" message.
- Jonovono 15y ago
  Oh thanks. Havn't realized that. I think it's my statcounter giving that error. I'll have to fix that. Still not done the site - lots left to add. Thanks for checking it out.

AceJohnny2 15y ago

You mention "some might call it an MPD Client"? Why not advertise it as such? Because it might scare away users? What are the features from MPD git that you depend on? How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ? Note that I haven't tried groovebasin yet. [1] http://relaxx.dirk-hoeschen.de/ http://relaxx.dirk-hoeschen.de/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/ http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/

AndyKelley 15y ago
Why not advertise it as such? Because there is a huge selection of already existing MPD clients in existence[1] and I'm trying to stand out a bit. [1]: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients What are the features from MPD git that you depend on? Client-to-client communication. Groove Basin uses it to broadcast some status messages to other clients currently connected. Probably going to change the architecture of that soon. Oh, another thing that is relatively new is the sticker file, which is required for Dynamic Mode. (We remember the last-queued date for each track to give bias to not recently queued songs when queuing random songs) How does it compare to other web/browser-bsaed clients such as relaXX [1] or MPM [2] ? I tried relaXX. I haven't tried MPM, but I checked out a screenshot and read the README. I think when it comes to media players, it's the small things that make a big difference. How intuitive the UI is, whether it is cluttered, whether it feels like the same song keeps coming up on random, how long it takes to browse and queue music, etc. Groove Basin attempts not to have the most features, but to get the small things right. I'll take a deeper look at relaXX and MPM after work and give a better description of the actual differences if you're interested. I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be 1. how easy it is to queue things, and 2. Dynamic Mode.