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Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#51

Post by sharkweek » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

whiddershins wrote: post #50

onion2k wrote: post #2

Two points of feedback; 1. No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together. On the initial "Hot Songs" page, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to get by clicking on the Play button for each song. I went from a weird electronica song to an "alternative" song to an acoustic guitar song. 2. Also, there seems to be quite a lot of stuff on there. As a new user,…

>> No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together I do agree, can you help me understand what distinguishes independent music from regular music? It isn't hard to be added to Spotify, so why would you have any music Spotify doesn't? Or is it simply that the compensation model is different.

I think one thing that's nice about this is a much smaller inventory to sort through that gives some front page exposure specifically to indie artists.

I played around with this for a bit and found 3-4 aritsts I liked just by hitting play on a dozen or so songs, and then exploring further.

Big fan of this.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#52

Post by gshahlot » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:30 PM UTC

sharkweek wrote: post #51

whiddershins wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> No one I know wants to browse "independent music" as an amorphous blob of everything lumped together I do agree, can you help me understand what distinguishes independent music from regular music? It isn't hard to be added to Spotify, so why would you have any music Spotify doesn't? Or is it simply that the compensation model is different.

I think one thing that's nice about this is a much smaller inventory to sort through that gives some front page exposure specifically to indie artists. I played around with this for a bit and found 3-4 aritsts I liked just by hitting play on a dozen or so songs, and then exploring further. Big fan of this.

Wow, thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#53

Post by phusuke » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

Dude! This is awesome. Outside of the idea. I love how simple and amazing your UI is. Its light and brilliantly intuitive. I have been using everything from grooveshark, new myspace and spotify , rdio but i seriously like your UI the best. It has almost all the features and its so very well thought out. Good on you sir!

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#54

Post by nicklovescode » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Good job, buy why Spotify rather than just a music player?

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#55

Post by gshahlot » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

phusuke wrote: post #53

Dude! This is awesome. Outside of the idea. I love how simple and amazing your UI is. Its light and brilliantly intuitive. I have been using everything from grooveshark, new myspace and spotify , rdio but i seriously like your UI the best. It has almost all the features and its so very well thought out. Good on you sir!

You sir, have made our day!

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#56

Post by soemarko » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

8tracks.com boiled down to single tag?

Feedback: the player panel, instead having tabs for Now Playing / Queue, why not move the tabs below the player buttons, and have Comments / Queue tabs.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#57

Post by glomph » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

sakbhatn wrote: post #22

tfinch wrote: post #19

It's interesting to me that you see yourself as spotify + itunes, as the comparison that immediately struck me is Bandcamp + recommendations and the ability to queue up tracks. It certainly seems like the value you bring to artists is very similar to bandcamp - I suppose your differentiator here is discovery? Are you planning to allow sales of physical items as well? I'm a big fan of buying the vinyl release + immedi…

Physical items is not in the plan for now. If more people show interest in that, something we can consider. Our differentiator is certainly discovery. About the nitpicks: 1. This was to avoid user accidentally clicking and losing the music queue. Now that we've added a js check, we should certainly remove it. 2. We had to shut it down because of the spam. I know we could do captcha, but then we realized most of the f…

Could you not do a captcha for non signed in users?

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#58

Post by gshahlot » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

soemarko wrote: post #56

8tracks.com boiled down to single tag? Feedback: the player panel, instead having tabs for Now Playing / Queue, why not move the tabs below the player buttons, and have Comments / Queue tabs.

That's how we had started initially. Both the tabs were below the player, however for most people browsing on laptops, they could hardly see a song or two in the queue. So we moved it to a separate tab on the top.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#59

Post by selfexperiments » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

I like like this, and I want to support independent artists, but consider grouping similar songs together like Songza does. My .02.

Congrats on the great site and what seems like a successful launch!

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#60

Post by sakbhatn » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 7:19 PM UTC

selfexperiments wrote: post #59

I like like this, and I want to support independent artists, but consider grouping similar songs together like Songza does. My .02. Congrats on the great site and what seems like a successful launch!

Thank you! Grouping songs like Songza seems like a great idea.