You're going to have a hard time competing with Soundcloud. Soundcloud is where the artists are, and thus it's where the fans go.
Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
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Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#22Seems cool but I noticed a problem with Chrome on OSX (I assume this affects all browsers).
The right scroll arrow is blocked by the page scroll bar: http://i.imgur.com/YfVUf.png
It is very difficult/frustrating to click on that arrow.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#23The UI is phenomenal, the overemphasis on Facebook sharing (not login) annoyed me though. I really, really don't want you auto-posting what I'm listening to/doing to Facebook. Spotify & Songza do it and it drives me insane.
It's actually the main reason why I stopped using SocialCam & Viddy. I couldn't trust the service. "Normals" probably don't have the same problem with it, but I personally hate it.
(As a side-note, I have no problem posting great songs I listen to on Hype Machine to Facebook & Twitter. I just want to be in control of what is posted.)
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#24very cool stuff. It was a little confusing for me to get which things were actually the "playlists" versus the tracks versus the charts.
do you have a bug-report system or anything set up? after clicking on a chart, under the div "influencers" the tooltip isn't displaying properly. (background of the tooltip might be transparent or something, I'll look into it more to figure out exactly what the problem is)
Otherwise, cool site. I'm actually working on a company that might be an interesting partnership for you. my email should be on my profile if you are interested.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#25Seems cool but I noticed a problem with Chrome on OSX (I assume this affects all browsers). The right scroll arrow is blocked by the page scroll bar: http://i.imgur.com/YfVUf.png It is very difficult/frustrating to click on that arrow.
Chrome on Windows doesn't "hover" the scrollbar over the content, so it's much easier to click there.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#26The UI is phenomenal, the overemphasis on Facebook sharing (not login) annoyed me though. I really, really don't want you auto-posting what I'm listening to/doing to Facebook. Spotify & Songza do it and it drives me insane. It's actually the main reason why I stopped using SocialCam & Viddy. I couldn't trust the service. "Normals" probably don't have the same problem with it, but I personally hate it. (As a side-note…
Hey Andrew, wavo co-founder here.
We definitely understand that some of our users prefer not to use the social sharing features of our app ; hence we added the capability to turn those off, either temporarily with the use of the "social-sharing" switch at the top of the interface --or-- permanently via the preference dialog that you can find in the top left menu.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#27This looks really interesting, but to be completely honest, I lost all interest once I saw that there was no other option but to sign up with Facebook. As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :) I'd also love it if the About p…
Hey borgopants -- I'm one of the devs at wavo. We've gotten the same feedback from several people, and we know it's a priority. Artists and labels, in particular, have asked for non-Facebook login methods. It's on its way, promise. We just haven't quite made it there yet.
No problem. As I said, looks like a really interesting service and I've saved it so that I'll check it out once you guys add separate account options.
Great UI on the homepage though! Keep up the good work.
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#28FYI for anyone else running Ghostery: you have to disable it to get the site to load at all. Seems to get stuck in a permanent "loading" loop if it doesn't detect the FB social plugin script. Developers: if you care about privacy-conscious users, you may want to fix that.
Ah, interesting! Thanks for letting us know, we're looking into that right now. Regarding Facebook, we do require Facebook to login (as mentioned elsewhere, we're going to add other ways to log in soon) and we require the Facebook SDK for some of our social stuff. That said, we should handle this better - we shouldn't get stuck in a permanent loading loop!
... but you can only turn off social "for 4 hours".
Re: Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes.
#29The UI is phenomenal, the overemphasis on Facebook sharing (not login) annoyed me though. I really, really don't want you auto-posting what I'm listening to/doing to Facebook. Spotify & Songza do it and it drives me insane. It's actually the main reason why I stopped using SocialCam & Viddy. I couldn't trust the service. "Normals" probably don't have the same problem with it, but I personally hate it. (As a side-note…
Hey Andrew, wavo co-founder here. We definitely understand that some of our users prefer not to use the social sharing features of our app ; hence we added the capability to turn those off, either temporarily with the use of the "social-sharing" switch at the top of the interface --or-- permanently via the preference dialog that you can find in the top left menu.
My own opinion is that people should begin with total control over their sharing, instead of default auto share, and eventually chose to share automatically if they want.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, interesting! Thanks for letting us know, we're looking into that right now. Regarding Facebook, we do require Facebook to login (as mentioned elsewhere, we're going to add other ways to log in soon) and we require the Facebook SDK for some of our social stuff. That said, we should handle this better - we shouldn't get stuck in a permanent loading loop!
... but you can only turn off social "for 4 hours".
Oh, no, don't worry, you can turn social sharing off permanently. Hit the 'preferences' item in the menu at the top right. In there, you've got all kinds of social features to turn off. And they'll stay off.