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Tunes.io - simple, awesome daily playlist of new indie tracks
- qwerty007 14y agoWhy is there 'Blur - Song 2'? http://www.freewebs.com/ste_thompson/Blur%20-%20Song%202.mp3 http://www.freewebs.com/ste_thompson/Blur%20-%20Song%202.mp3
- jamesgagan 14y agostill tweaking the web crawl a bit - the occasional older song shows up now and then.
- fumar 14y agoWould it be crazy if you had guest days? Perhaps a prominent person would curate a playlist. It would be a cool way to drive traffic.
- jamesgagan 14y agoit's a great idea - i like it
- devbug 14y agoBase it off listening habits?
- jamesgagan 14y agothis was a weekend project - trying to keep it simple but any feedback is appreciated.
- songrabbit 14y agoIt would be neat if there were a way to save songs for later consumption. As a spotify user, I would love to be able to "star" it so it saves to my account, but I'm not sure if that is possible on the web
- jamesgagan 14y agothought about that - wanted to keep it dead simple, but i might add it.
- pserwylo 14y agoGood work mate. Nice and simple. One suggestion is to make it easier to look up the artists/songs that you enjoy. I find it hard to select the text of the artist/song because the anchor tag fills the entire width of the screen. Perhaps a nice way to approach it might be a "Info" link somewhere, maybe just when the song is playing, which just sends the query to Google or something. Later on, you could hook it up to some other sort of service which provides better info. Keep up the good work.
- jamesgagan 14y agojust might do it - thanks for the suggestion!
- ricardobeat 14y agoWere you inspired by mixest.com that appeared here last week?
- jamesgagan 14y agono - but i do like mixest. this was an idea i've had kicking around for awhile.
- fascinated 14y agoOn what basis is something "awesome"? Are the tracks handpicked? If not, what is the overall method? Why is there no attribution if the tracks are clearly from websites that have recommended the music?
- jamesgagan 14y agothis isn't the hype machine - its just a very simple way to enjoy some new music with no bells and whistles or distractions.
- mattdennewitz 14y agoone important part of discovering new music is discovering new trusted sources. that'll build trust between you app and your users, and i'm sure the folks whose keen insights you're scraping would appreciate it.
- jamesgagan 14y agofumar suggested guest playlists - it might be a good way to get bloggers/tastemakers to participate while keeping it simple.
- fumar 14y agoYeah, I love music and the whole art behind finding new music and enjoying something unique. I like when artists release their "influential tracks/songs." It gives me some new ground to explore. I will use this Royksopp as an example. I liked "Melody AM", their first album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_A.M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_A.M. It was chill and atmospheric. When they released "Back to Mine," a compilation of their favorite tracks. I understood "Melody AM" much better. http://www.discogs.com/R%C3%B6yksopp-Back-To-Mine/master/294901 http://www.discogs.com/R%C3%B6yksopp-Back-To-Mine/master/294...
- fascinated 14y agoSure, but how is the music picked? Attribution is not a distraction.
- tkahn6 14y agoSee also: http://console.fm http://console.fm if you're into EDM.
- alexkiwi 14y agoThanks :)
- batiudrami 14y agoNot necessarily 'indie' music (by label independence or genre), but the songs I know on it are fairly good, so I assume the rest are too. At least it isn't 95% trash like Hype Machine.
- jamesgagan 14y agothanks! i purposefully keep the playlists small and vet each track to keep the quality high. this is the listening experience i want for myself. hype machine is more of a firehose which makes it a bit harder to find the gems.
- batiudrami 14y agoThat seems like a lot of work for you - finding twenty tracks each day good enough to put on a playlist. I could probably do it comfortably once a week, but every day would be a struggle. I would maybe consider a .fm TLD? For some reason I naturally associate .fm with music and .io with more tech/HN-oriented stuff.
- medell 14y agoThe Tallest Man on Earth & Cat Power! Like it already :)
- Xcelerate 14y agoSeeing "tunes.io" reminds me -- I'll share something cool with you all. I was using the .io domain name search tool that I made (http://iodomains.nickmcnutt.com http://iodomains.nickmcnutt.com) and I noticed that songs.io has not been taken yet! Can you believe it? We'll see how long it takes for someone to grab it now ;) EDIT: Holy cow that was fast! Less than 4 minutes!
- jamesgagan 14y agowoot! guess i have a name for next weekends project now ;)
- Xcelerate 14y agoYou got it? Good luck with it! (I've noticed domain-squatters are starting to grab the good .io names so I figured someone on HN would do something more productive with it!)
- jamesgagan 14y agoyeah i see bands.io is available too - unfortunately at $65 a pop, can't afford to scoop too many up!
- highace 14y ago.io domains are currently pretty useless because Google webmaster tools won't let you target a global audience. So no one apart from those who live in the Indian Ocean states will find you via Google, which is a bit of a disadvantage.
- wamatt 14y agoVery cool James, I usually use Spotify indie lists, but surprisingly this has a found a few cool tracks I hadn't discovered yet. If you don't mind sharing, how does the playlist selection algorithm work?
- jamesgagan 14y ago
- chrischen 14y agoHave you ever used a playlist sharing site like 8tracks or songza.com?
- jamesgagan 14y agoi used to run a site called skreemr.com, and our API helped power sites like songza (long before it was a hit ios app), playlist.com and even short-lived Y-combinator graduate mixwit.com
- justanotheratom 14y agoStupid question - How do I pause it?
- jamesgagan 14y agojust click on the song that's playing. i plan to add keyboard controls at some point.
- dbalatero 14y agoCould I submit my band's tracks to you via email or something?
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- jamesgagan 14y agoif they are actually good, shoot me an email at info at everlook dot ca
- beatpanda 14y agoDooooooooope. On Android the songs keep playing if the browser isn't active - how'd you do that?
- donebizkit 14y agoToday's playlist was great. I'll be checking this a lot.
- donebizkit 14y agoI've listened to all 4 lists and the quality is good. Can you speak a bit about the algorithm behind this? I noticed that even though the tracks are different and clearly from different artists they still fall under a new-age-y genre. Is that the nature of the source, algorithm, or personal preference?
- chetan51 14y agoA download button on each song would be awesome!