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Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

32 points by downer 19y ago

hsiung 19y ago
Hi. Thanks for finding our startup :)
- JMiao 19y ago
  They're on to us Sam!
ivank 19y ago
Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?
- downer 19y ago
  Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu. I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...
  - hsiung 19y ago
    The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.
- jasonyan 19y ago
  I can play songs with Opera 9.5 build 9665 on Windows.
rokhayakebe 19y ago
can you give us a short introduction to your startup?
- JMiao 19y ago
  thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page. We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.
  - downer 19y ago
    It looks like such a fantastic idea! Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent. (Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)
    - JMiao 19y ago
      We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.
      - donal 19y ago
        I was really starting to get into during the last hour of work, but then I came home and I really don't want to reboot over to Windows from Ubuntu. And starting next year even my work machine will be Ubuntu... VMWare Player is free and images are bountiful. VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Ubuntu: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 Can you give me music now? :-)
        JMiao 19y ago
        Haha, thanks for the suggestions. We actually bought a $400 Dell laptop (I have a Mac, but what a steal!) and are expecting it within a week. You can bet Ubuntu is going on that within <30 seconds of its arrival. If you have an e-mail address, I can send you a message when the site is Ubuntu-ready.
jasonyan 19y ago
Awesome site guys! You also just reminded me about the new ATAL EP that came out yesterday.
- JMiao 19y ago
  Thanks, Jason. We love Disqus.
dood 19y ago
Very cool. Interesting to see social voting explicitly described and implemented as a game, I'm curious how spending/gambling points and leveling works out. Though if it takes off, I imagine you'll have your hands full with gaming/spamming ;) One thought: the faq interface is cute, but I prefer to read the whole thing at once.
nickb 19y ago
Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?
- JMiao 19y ago
  Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!
  - nickb 19y ago
    Ah, now I see where I've seen stuff like this! It's similar to iminlikewithyou! ;)
jgamman 19y ago
i got a server error
- JMiao 19y ago
  It's back online. Sorry about that.
Dauntless 19y ago
Someone had to do it, thanks guys for implementing it :) . Hope it scales well. Btw, I like how the audio stays on while you change pages, Slick. The points system is nice also.
eusman 19y ago
the feature that the music continues to play in the background it's a really nice one
nikolaj 19y ago
Awesome. Very impressive, great concept, and glad to see more people using django (i use it for almost every site).
ian 19y ago
The name is cool, the UI is tight and I just found a cool new band. Great work.
- JMiao 19y ago
  Thanks, Ian. We do it for the people, and it's incredibly rewarding when I get to read comments like yours.
oditogre 19y ago
>You can purchase DRM-free songs by clicking "buy" on select players. Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'players' - like, WinAmp / WMP / etc. or like other members of the site? I use Amazon's music store, so that's kind of interesting to me. \*Edit: I intermittently get "t61.flashplayer.init is not a function" error. It prevents me from listening to music. Any idea on what to do with that?
- JMiao 19y ago
  "Player" is in reference to the individual song players on the page -- sorry for the confusion! Just click "buy" on the song you like, and you'll be able to buy it from Amazon MP3...aside from the mandatory client (although it has a purpose), I'm also a fan of the Amazon music store. We'll look into the issue you reported (thanks). What browser/OS are you using? You can respond to this thread, or simply send in Feedback from the site.
  - oditogre 19y ago
    FF 2.0.0.10 and IE 7 (fully patched) both gave the error on a fully patched WinXP SP2 system, so I'm guessing it's a flash problem. I'm not at work atm so I can't check the specifics on the flash being used there, but it's whatever's the latest because I had to download it to use your site. :)
    - JMiao 19y ago
      I haven't run into the symptoms you described and we've been testing multiple, updated browsers (FF, IE6, IE7, Safari, Opera) on XP/SP2 and Mac. We support Flash 8 and above. Thanks for bringing this to my attention -- I'll keep an eye out.
    - hsiung 19y ago
      This issue should be fixed now (I was able to reproduce the bug after installing the debugging libraries that come with flex.)
tel 19y ago
The presentation is incredible. Reminiscent of iminlikewithyou without the total Flex overhaul. I also like the little artist details that pop up while you listen. There's a styling "error" in Safari 3.0 Mac: the rounded corner sprite is PNG which displays at slightly different color temperatures on different browsers. It's causing all of your rounded boxes to get dark stripes where it doesn't match the CSS background. Just use GIF.
budwiser1111 19y ago
all of yall are stupid ass fags i will beat all yall asses if you got anything to say suck my nutts bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!

32 points by downer 19y ago

hsiung 19y ago

Hi. Thanks for finding our startup :)

JMiao 19y ago
They're on to us Sam!

ivank 19y ago

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

downer 19y ago
Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu. I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...
- hsiung 19y ago
  The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.
jasonyan 19y ago
I can play songs with Opera 9.5 build 9665 on Windows.

rokhayakebe 19y ago

can you give us a short introduction to your startup?

JMiao 19y ago
thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page. We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.
- downer 19y ago
  It looks like such a fantastic idea! Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent. (Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)
  - JMiao 19y ago
    We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.
    - donal 19y ago
      I was really starting to get into during the last hour of work, but then I came home and I really don't want to reboot over to Windows from Ubuntu. And starting next year even my work machine will be Ubuntu... VMWare Player is free and images are bountiful. VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Ubuntu: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 Can you give me music now? :-)
      - JMiao 19y ago
        Haha, thanks for the suggestions. We actually bought a $400 Dell laptop (I have a Mac, but what a steal!) and are expecting it within a week. You can bet Ubuntu is going on that within <30 seconds of its arrival. If you have an e-mail address, I can send you a message when the site is Ubuntu-ready.

jasonyan 19y ago

Awesome site guys! You also just reminded me about the new ATAL EP that came out yesterday.

JMiao 19y ago
Thanks, Jason. We love Disqus.

dood 19y ago

Very cool. Interesting to see social voting explicitly described and implemented as a game, I'm curious how spending/gambling points and leveling works out. Though if it takes off, I imagine you'll have your hands full with gaming/spamming ;) One thought: the faq interface is cute, but I prefer to read the whole thing at once.

nickb 19y ago

Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?

JMiao 19y ago
Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!
- nickb 19y ago
  Ah, now I see where I've seen stuff like this! It's similar to iminlikewithyou! ;)

jgamman 19y ago

i got a server error

JMiao 19y ago
It's back online. Sorry about that.

Dauntless 19y ago

Someone had to do it, thanks guys for implementing it :) . Hope it scales well. Btw, I like how the audio stays on while you change pages, Slick. The points system is nice also.

eusman 19y ago

the feature that the music continues to play in the background it's a really nice one

nikolaj 19y ago

Awesome. Very impressive, great concept, and glad to see more people using django (i use it for almost every site).

ian 19y ago

The name is cool, the UI is tight and I just found a cool new band. Great work.

JMiao 19y ago
Thanks, Ian. We do it for the people, and it's incredibly rewarding when I get to read comments like yours.

oditogre 19y ago

>You can purchase DRM-free songs by clicking "buy" on select players. Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'players' - like, WinAmp / WMP / etc. or like other members of the site? I use Amazon's music store, so that's kind of interesting to me. \*Edit: I intermittently get "t61.flashplayer.init is not a function" error. It prevents me from listening to music. Any idea on what to do with that?

JMiao 19y ago
"Player" is in reference to the individual song players on the page -- sorry for the confusion! Just click "buy" on the song you like, and you'll be able to buy it from Amazon MP3...aside from the mandatory client (although it has a purpose), I'm also a fan of the Amazon music store. We'll look into the issue you reported (thanks). What browser/OS are you using? You can respond to this thread, or simply send in Feedback from the site.
- oditogre 19y ago
  FF 2.0.0.10 and IE 7 (fully patched) both gave the error on a fully patched WinXP SP2 system, so I'm guessing it's a flash problem. I'm not at work atm so I can't check the specifics on the flash being used there, but it's whatever's the latest because I had to download it to use your site. :)
  - JMiao 19y ago
    I haven't run into the symptoms you described and we've been testing multiple, updated browsers (FF, IE6, IE7, Safari, Opera) on XP/SP2 and Mac. We support Flash 8 and above. Thanks for bringing this to my attention -- I'll keep an eye out.
  - hsiung 19y ago
    This issue should be fixed now (I was able to reproduce the bug after installing the debugging libraries that come with flex.)

tel 19y ago

The presentation is incredible. Reminiscent of iminlikewithyou without the total Flex overhaul. I also like the little artist details that pop up while you listen. There's a styling "error" in Safari 3.0 Mac: the rounded corner sprite is PNG which displays at slightly different color temperatures on different browsers. It's causing all of your rounded boxes to get dark stripes where it doesn't match the CSS background. Just use GIF.

budwiser1111 19y ago

all of yall are stupid ass fags i will beat all yall asses if you got anything to say suck my nutts bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!