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Show HN: I got tired of missing new music releases, so I built this
- AtTheLast 14y agoNice use of bootstrap and changing things up so it doesn't look like a default bootstrap site.
- hendi_ 14y agoA service I can recommend is https://muspy.com/ https://muspy.com/ . You enter your favorite interprets and get an email when they release a new single or album.
- girasquid 14y agoCool - thanks for the link!
- ew 14y agoWhy would I want to create an account and then manually enter in my favourite artists?
- martinwnet 14y agoIt seems to let you load artists from your last.fm and facebook profile, as well as manual entry.
- ThomasQue 14y agoBecause you're not using iTunes. I don't. I agree it's not the best experience ever, but it's a great solution for people like me using small music players (Pragha) that will never be supported by services like this.
- martinwnet 14y agoNo last.fm integration?
- girasquid 14y agoNot yet, but it's on my list.
- thekillingtree 14y agoCan't wait for that. Currently waiting results from my gfs Itunes xml file.
- hackmiester 14y agoExcellent. I'm sure I'm not the only one on hacker news who doesn't use iTunes.
- girasquid 14y agoIf there's anything I've learned today, it's been that people really like Spotify, and tend to send their information to last.fm. All the feedback is definitely helping me organize my list.
- whyleyc 14y agoNice idea, would use it if adapted for last.fm. Your survey contains "FooBar" as a listening option - assume this should not be on there ?
- girasquid 14y agoI was surprised too, but it is actually a music player that some of my early testers use: http://www.foobar2000.org/ http://www.foobar2000.org/.
- whyleyc 14y agoWow - I totally thought it was something you'd been using to test the survey and left in place when going live :)
- antihero 14y agoA fantastic one, too. Unfortunately not on Linux, though.
- SanjayUttam 14y agoWas just going to say the same thing. Very lightweight, skinnable (via css + html).
- thestu 14y agoProbably the single program I miss the most on Linux. I've never been able to find an acceptable replacement.
- antihero 14y agoI use MPD + ncmpcpp/ario, and then Picard for tagging. It works pretty well, and I can do a bunch of stuff I couldn't do with Foobar2000, too, such as controlling my music via an app on my phone.
- w1ntermute 14y agofoobar2000 is one of the best music players on Windows (though like antihero said, it's unfortunately not available for Linux). I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.
- mnicole 14y agoThe "Select File.." button label would make more sense as "Upload your iTunes XML file" instead of expecting the user to read the entirety of the text above or to click the equally confusing "What have I missed?" button, which I assumed was a changelog but was really to pop up the helper text.
- girasquid 14y agoThanks for the heads up - I'll be deploying the change shortly.
- hwestbrook 14y agoagree with this comment
- moystard 14y agoThe "Select File" button does not work for me on Firefox 15.0.1 / OSX 10.8.2 while it does when I use Chrome, bug or deliberate choice?
- girasquid 14y agoBug - that's what I get for trying to style a file input. Try clicking just to the left or right of it.
- moystard 14y agoThank you, I am now waiting for my results :)
- moystard 14y agoImportant Note: it seems that Gmail detects beathound results as a spam.
- simonsquiff 14y agoI hit the same problem, then fired up IE to try to get around it. Didn't work there either...unless you double click. I'd have given up if I'd not seen this comment! The other thing that is rather confusing is that having selected the file, it's not clear how to proceed. I eventually clicked 'What have I missed' which seems to actually be 'I've not missed anything please click this button' - I think this could be better worded to just 'Go' or something similar once the file is selected.
- girasquid 14y agoGood point - I've changed it to 'Analyze'.
- defsprite 14y agoWell, I have created this a while ago: http://qusic.co.uk http://qusic.co.uk It tracks currently only spotify stuff, but you can import your artists from SongKick. Any feedback / suggestions highly appreciated.
- kingatomic 14y agoCool idea! From a privacy perspective -- what info can you glean from someone's library file? (other than the obvious artist/track information)
- girasquid 14y agoHere's a paste of a small library.xml file: https://gist.github.com/d61db3dcfd07ad093abf https://gist.github.com/d61db3dcfd07ad093abf Looking at it quickly, I can get some idea of how your filesystem is laid out (or at least how iTunes thinks it is), as well as probably guessing your username on your computer if you haven't changed your music path. Doesn't look like much more than that.
- rolux 14y agoLooking at my own iTunes library, the names of some of my playlists actually leak quite a bit of private information.
- minikites 14y agoThere's also http://www.albumreminder.com/ http://www.albumreminder.com/
- droithomme 14y ago"You can add your favorite artists one-by-one or make use of one of Album Reminder's powerful importers." Thanks that one is really cool, the one-by-one option is the right amount of disclosure for me.
- droithomme 14y agoThis is a good idea for a service but I found the interface too confusing regarding how to use it, why it had to have that information, and how it worked. Select file would seem to mean the iTunes folder? Or do I select "iTunes Music Library.xml" inside it (a large file). What personal and private information is in that file anyway? How will it be used? Where is it going? What if the xml file I have is for a different version of iTunes than the site supports? Is there a list of iTunes versions tested and supported listed somewhere on the site? What happens if a bunch of users have information in that file that they have pirated songs and the service gets a subpoena to disclose all xml files? What if I only want updates on some artists I like and not the ones I hate and regret buying their CD? Does the XML file have DRM keys in it that I will be inadvertently disclosing? If not where are those things kept anyway? How often do I get emails? How can I unsubscribe? How can I tell it to stop sending emails about a given group? A service I would probably like would be one where I could type in names of groups I actually like and get emails when they release a new album. This may even be a complementary function to the "everything all at once without distinction" feature on the beathound site.
- girasquid 14y agoFair enough. When you select a file, you want to upload your iTunes Music Library.xml file - this is a paste of a small one: https://gist.github.com/d61db3dcfd07ad093abf https://gist.github.com/d61db3dcfd07ad093abf. It doesn't look like there are any DRM keys, but if you're worried about your privacy I could theoretically figure out how iTunes is organizing your music for you. It doesn't look like there are any DRM keys in there, but I will keep investigating. I'm working on improving filtering for artists you hate. If you really don't want to upload your XML file, It sounds like http://www.albumreminder.com/ http://www.albumreminder.com/ might be more up your alley for now. Thanks for the feedback!
- j45 14y agoThis sounds like a great list of FAQ questions that could be added
- dave5104 14y ago
- ken 14y agoFWIW, I spent a while trying to figure out how to pronounce "beathound" ("beath - ound"? "bea - thound"?). I eventually figured it's supposed to be "beat" + "hound" (right?). As annoying as it can sometimes be, maybe this would be a good time to use camelcase ("BeatHound"), or perhaps just style the text to use a different color for the two words.
- girasquid 14y agoYou know, I had a tester point out to me that this could be a problem - this is what I get for thinking he was nuts. Thanks for pointing this out.
- hnriot 14y agoI would think that this is very much an outlier response, I can't imagine anyone that's in anyway familiar with the English language having any trouble working out how this is supposed to be pronounced, except ke n here [sic]
- mnicole 14y agoHad the same problem.
- benguild 14y agoThis is very similar to a service I built several years ago with a different concept: http://ilikebsides.com http://ilikebsides.com
- evan_ 14y agoReminds me a lot of http://www.crapimissedit.com/ http://www.crapimissedit.com/ which is unfortunately shuttered now.
- gghootch 14y agoThis is a pretty cool solution; although I am getting a LOT of false positives. Could that have something to do with my hand-tagged MP3s? (shameless plug) I made a new album notification tool for Last.FM focused on easily excluding non-important artists a while back: http://releasification.frapp.it http://releasification.frapp.it
- girasquid 14y agoHand-tagged MP3s are a problem, but it looks like I have some bugs in my scanning logic that are creating more false positives than I'd like. I've been collecting library.xml files to try and track it down - if you want to help out, send yours to luke@creaturecreative.com.
- dakrone 14y agoI don't see any kind of privacy policy link on the site, could one be added spelling out how the email address will be used?
- girasquid 14y agoYes - I need to do this. For now I can just spell it out: I will only use your email address to send you 1) an email when your library has been scanned, 2) an email maximum once a week when I find new releases from artists in your library, and 3) an email when there are recommendations for you to check out (if you opt in to receiving recommendations). I have added this to my priority list - thanks.
- girasquid 14y agoI've stubbed in a quick one for now: http://beathound.com/privacy http://beathound.com/privacy.
- kylefox 14y agoThis is awesome. It's already found me a handful of new albums from artists I like.
- liedra 14y agoYeah, me too! I am very impressed. :D (Hope you're getting some affiliation cash, OP, I'd be happy to throw that your way given the usefulness of this!)
- simonsquiff 14y agoYes - this genuinely is excellent. I've already bought two albums (first I've got for years) and am really enjoying stepping through the results. Great stuff!
- sambeau 14y agoWell done. This really works. The first recommendation was an instant purchase. So far I have spend £15. Please consider two things: email alerts. I'f happily be spammed every time a new album from my most-played artists was released. A monthly-spend-automatic-buy. I'd risk $20 a month to wake up to new music. Oh. And it took me straight to the US shop despite me being a British customer. I take it the country code isn't in the iTunes.xml. Perhaps a country selector is needed on sign-up.
- girasquid 14y agoRight now the plan is to email you max once a week - most of my early users hated email, so it was a matter of finding a balance between "I am putting something in your inbox" and "I am doing my best to not annoy you". Once a week seemed best for now. This is my first time testing with an international audience - sounds like there's some work to do on country selection. Thanks for the feedback!
- ocharles 14y agoWhat's the data source for this?
- saltwatershane 14y agoSongkick does concerts as well as new releases
- jam 14y agothe iphone app "nomis" does this well: http://www.nomisapp.com/ http://www.nomisapp.com/
- kin 14y agoI feel like official music releases are too slow to the game. Kind of like BandsInTown or SongKick, by the time you find out they're in town it's too late and tickets are sold out. You have to rely on social media like FB/Twitter for instant knowledge. For releases, http://hypem.com http://hypem.com is the way to go. Blogs will discover new releases way before anyone and you'll discover them through hypem.
- j45 14y agoI think this kind of service would be valuable to me just to find related or similar artists that I might not have heard of before -- if new music wasn't the sole focus