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In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/
by joshmn 13y ago
In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point.
While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png
- hack_edu 13y agoGreat site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.
- dsl 13y agoThis is AWESOME.
- copperx 13y agoLooks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).
- rnbrady 13y agoVery cool! First song it served me under minimal was both new and awesome.
- joshmn 13y agoI'm glad.
- ufmace 13y agoI'll check yours out later, but have you tried Slacker? I got tired of Pandora because it tended to get too repetitive longer-term, but Slacker seems to have stations controlled by actual DJs that rotate new music in and out.
- mjhagen 13y agoThis is perfect! If you need any testers, let me know.
- joshmn 13y agoCould you shoot me a mail? josh@josh.mn :)
- shpx 13y agoRight on man! Can I suggest you add a Favourites list if the user is signed in?
- joshmn 13y agoI'm actually planning to add "favorite playlists" so you can mix/match certain genres. There's no back-end algorithm to determine what tracks you'll like... but developing a "likes"/"favourtites" system is easily doable. Will DEFINITELY consider it.
- w4 13y agoI fucking love this. Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name. EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).
- jeffbr13 13y ago> "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also starting to refer to a very 'American' style of dance music, so it probably will turn off a lot of people, especially those most involved/interested in electronic music. Music genres are one of those identity-defining topics[1], so it's best to sidestep the whole issue if there's any doubt! [1]: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
- wyclif 13y agoI would argue against "EDM" in the name not because it sounds stupid, but because it limits the point of reference to a very specific style of music in a worldwide music-playing web service. The reason why "Spotify" and "Rdio" are such good names is because musically they are undefined by the service and defined by you; you can listen to almost any kind of music on them. Also I think it's better to avoid acronymns; that can be a little obscure. Don't limit yourself or your business to identity-defining topics. See: Amazon, Zappos, Google, Apple, etc.
- joshmn 13y agoThanks so much! I'll consider adding a Spotify link in the next version (will be released soon, I hope). RE: Favicon. I need a lot of design stuff! I'll whip up something for the next iteration too.
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- timthimmaiah 13y agoPretty cool site man. We launched an customizable SoundCloud player that could fit in pretty nicely here. We even have a player skin that would match your color scheme :) Check it out at https://www.toneden.io/player https://www.toneden.io/player. The repo is at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk. Just hit me up if you want some help integrating it.
- joshmn 13y agoHA. So funny because I totally commented on the Facebook post you guys posted. ANDDDDDD I commented on the HN post :) something about volume control.
- cube_yellow 13y agoI hate to be that guy, but nothing you have under IDM is actually IDM. It's decent glitchhop/dubstep, but I don't know how/why you created that sub-category to shoehorn IDM in there somewhere.
- joshmn 13y agoI scraped a few blogs and then took in their tags thinking they would be accurate. Evidently, they are not always accurate. :(
- marlin 13y agoawesome site! this'll be my coding playlist for a while!