Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.
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#32Great 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?
Frontend is Angular and Bootstrap, backend I use Parse for account/playlist management and its hosted on Heroku.
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#33Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.
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?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to a record store, pick at random a few from the 'news' section, listen and repeat until you have a few you reckon go together. Then buy them, research the artists involved on Discogs, go see them play. Do this weekly for a few years. Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physicall…
This is how it's done :) Also, have you actually gone into record stores and previewed records before buying them? I may purchase this record player[1] as a way to check out records at the store, but I wasn't sure if this was a thing store owners typically allow. Any insight? [1] http://www.amazon.com/Vestax-VES-HANDYTRAXUSBBLK-Handy-Trax-...
Believe it or not but you don't HAVE to buy anything, you can sit there for hours and if nothing catches your attention leave empty handed. The handytrax are cool but more for big garage sales where they don't provide decks and I'd be wary of a record store that doesn't have record players.
try this: http://record-shops.org/
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#35This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)
Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.