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Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

60 points by davbai 12y ago

erader 12y ago
Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot of tracks I'm not interested in. I think it's going to be important that in the future the user is given some more control and selectivity (in addition to some more social components). Good work. Edit: punctuation
- davbai 12y ago
  Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good. While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like. I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.). The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
  - erader 12y ago
    That's great. Yeah, I just wanted to bring forward that I use a pretty slim criteria for when I'm deciding to unfollow an account on SC. Essentially, if that account is not posting or reposting any tracks that I'm interested in for a while, I unfollow them. So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!
cubecul 12y ago
This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore. One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?
- cwal37 12y ago
  I hear you on feeling like I suck at music discovery. I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Recently one of my brothers launched a sort of music discovery/contest site-thing[1], and while I'm not totally certain about everything they're doing, I have found a lot of interesting tracks looking through their Discover tab. You might find it worth checking out. [1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/ http://nostrajamus.com/#/ EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.
  - tomphoolery 12y ago
    > I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to. Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.
    - cwal37 12y ago
      It's probably just how I consider myself in the context of people I know. I love being well versed in something and offering suggestions to people, but I have always been more of a taker when it comes to music. Normally I'm ready with a book/movie/tv/game/whatever recommendation, but I've never been connected to the music world the same way. It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.
ChristianBundy 12y ago
Where can I file a bug? I'd love to be able to view the source on Github and create an issue.
- davbai 12y ago
  For now you can just send any issues to contact@thedailydrop.co Thanks!
SeoxyS 12y ago
This is awesome. Future feature ideas: Would love a daily email of new tracks & a way to add them to a Spotify playlist.
mVChr 12y ago
Useful aggregator and time-saver for voracious seekers of new jams. Having more than just EDM along with a filter by genre option would be nice for those of us who like DnB, Techno, Trap, etc.
amdixon 12y ago
Nice work, how long did it take you to build? Just a note — the pause/play sequence resets the track to the beginning instead of starting it from where you paused (chrome 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit))
- davbai 12y ago
  Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.
g8oz 12y ago
I wish I could tell one EDM track apart from another.
- juliangoldsmith 12y ago
  The mainstream stuff is pretty homogeneous, but it gets pretty interesting when you get into the lesser-known stuff.
- deleted 12y ago
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shrig94 12y ago
This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)
- davbai 12y ago
  I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.
- bnejad 12y ago
  Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.
joshmn 12y ago
I built listen2edm.com last summer in about 4 days, though I never even did anything to really market or "release" it. It scraped new tracks from 15 different blogs to gather its content. If anyone finds this interesting, maybe I'll continue working on it.
OvidNaso 12y ago
Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wrt taste:(time for discovery) is Digitially Imported Preimum that works perfectly with Clementine (or any player for that matter).
philco 12y ago
How's this different than the drop? Is this just a ripoff (name and all)?
- davbai 12y ago
  thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.
iamdave 12y ago
Hey this is rad, I LOVE the UI and love that I have a source dedicated to EDM without having to sift through other services. The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively. Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)
alfg 12y ago
Great project and I love the UI! I was actually just looking for an EDM discovery/explore app like this just yesterday. Bookmarked. :) Any information on the technology stack?
- davbai 12y ago
  Frontend is Angular and Bootstrap, backend I use Parse for account/playlist management and its hosted on Heroku.
petercooper 12y ago
Would love something like this for hip hop as in my experience it's mostly over the top blogs and mixtape sites.
driverdan 12y ago
Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.
- davbai 12y ago
  I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?

60 points by davbai 12y ago

Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot of tracks I'm not interested in. I think it's going to be important that in the future the user is given some more control and selectivity (in addition to some more social components). Good work. Edit: punctuation

davbai 12y ago
Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good. While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like. I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.). The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
- erader 12y ago
  That's great. Yeah, I just wanted to bring forward that I use a pretty slim criteria for when I'm deciding to unfollow an account on SC. Essentially, if that account is not posting or reposting any tracks that I'm interested in for a while, I unfollow them. So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!

cubecul 12y ago

This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore. One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?

cwal37 12y ago
I hear you on feeling like I suck at music discovery. I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Recently one of my brothers launched a sort of music discovery/contest site-thing[1], and while I'm not totally certain about everything they're doing, I have found a lot of interesting tracks looking through their Discover tab. You might find it worth checking out. [1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/ http://nostrajamus.com/#/ EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.
- tomphoolery 12y ago
  > I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to. Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.
  - cwal37 12y ago
    It's probably just how I consider myself in the context of people I know. I love being well versed in something and offering suggestions to people, but I have always been more of a taker when it comes to music. Normally I'm ready with a book/movie/tv/game/whatever recommendation, but I've never been connected to the music world the same way. It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.

ChristianBundy 12y ago

Where can I file a bug? I'd love to be able to view the source on Github and create an issue.

davbai 12y ago
For now you can just send any issues to contact@thedailydrop.co Thanks!

SeoxyS 12y ago

This is awesome. Future feature ideas: Would love a daily email of new tracks & a way to add them to a Spotify playlist.

mVChr 12y ago

Useful aggregator and time-saver for voracious seekers of new jams. Having more than just EDM along with a filter by genre option would be nice for those of us who like DnB, Techno, Trap, etc.

amdixon 12y ago

Nice work, how long did it take you to build? Just a note — the pause/play sequence resets the track to the beginning instead of starting it from where you paused (chrome 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit))

davbai 12y ago
Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.

g8oz 12y ago

I wish I could tell one EDM track apart from another.

juliangoldsmith 12y ago
The mainstream stuff is pretty homogeneous, but it gets pretty interesting when you get into the lesser-known stuff.
deleted 12y ago
[deleted]

shrig94 12y ago

This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)

davbai 12y ago
I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.
bnejad 12y ago
Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.

joshmn 12y ago

I built listen2edm.com last summer in about 4 days, though I never even did anything to really market or "release" it. It scraped new tracks from 15 different blogs to gather its content. If anyone finds this interesting, maybe I'll continue working on it.

OvidNaso 12y ago

Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wrt taste:(time for discovery) is Digitially Imported Preimum that works perfectly with Clementine (or any player for that matter).

philco 12y ago

How's this different than the drop? Is this just a ripoff (name and all)?

davbai 12y ago
thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.

iamdave 12y ago

Hey this is rad, I LOVE the UI and love that I have a source dedicated to EDM without having to sift through other services. The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively. Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)

alfg 12y ago

Great project and I love the UI! I was actually just looking for an EDM discovery/explore app like this just yesterday. Bookmarked. :) Any information on the technology stack?

davbai 12y ago
Frontend is Angular and Bootstrap, backend I use Parse for account/playlist management and its hosted on Heroku.

petercooper 12y ago

Would love something like this for hip hop as in my experience it's mostly over the top blogs and mixtape sites.

driverdan 12y ago

Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.

davbai 12y ago
I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?