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Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

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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…

They should definitely add FLAC downloads like bandcamp.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#62
Nice work.

FYI the flash blocker in chrome doesn't register that there's flash content on the site. I had to click around quite a bit in order to get an option to enable flash.

Better yet, you should use the Web Audio API and fallback to flash for unsupported browsers :)

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#63
post #62

Nice work. FYI the flash blocker in chrome doesn't register that there's flash content on the site. I had to click around quite a bit in order to get an option to enable flash. Better yet, you should use the Web Audio API and fallback to flash for unsupported browsers :) http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/

We do have a html5 fallback, I'll get that looked into.

Edit: Are you on firefox by any chance? Apparently mp3 is not supported there. If not, which browser are you using?

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#64
Amazing. I just signed up my music project, and while I'm really glad to see you've made the path for artists to get on the service easy, I'm curious what sort of gatekeeping / curation will help maintain the signal-to-noise ratio. Ideally, you have something somewhere in between the hard-to-crack-unless-you're–with-a-major label of Pandora and the total free-for-all of some past services like Amie Street, but that's a notoriously difficult line to walk.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#65
It's great that musicfellas is supporting the pay-what-you-want model. It's not so great that they pretty much lifted the slider from the album pages on http://www.loudr.fm

(according to their blog post 3 days ago at http://blog.musicfellas.com/post/59478848137/generosity, musicfellas implemented PWYW "a few weeks back" - Loudr has had its current slider design since we launched in February of this year).

Although on the plus side, it means that our slider is cool enough to copy! (Ours even allows artists to bundle multiple albums together, to reward their fans for paying more).

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#66
post #65

It's great that musicfellas is supporting the pay-what-you-want model. It's not so great that they pretty much lifted the slider from the album pages on http://www.loudr.fm (according to their blog post 3 days ago at http://blog.musicfellas.com/post/59478848137/generosity , musicfellas implemented PWYW "a few weeks back" - Loudr has had its current slider design since we launched in February of this year). Although o…

Your slider is definitely cool :) We did take the design inspiration for that from you.

I'd love to have a chat with you guys. Feel free to write to us. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#68

Amazing. I just signed up my music project, and while I'm really glad to see you've made the path for artists to get on the service easy, I'm curious what sort of gatekeeping / curation will help maintain the signal-to-noise ratio. Ideally, you have something somewhere in between the hard-to-crack-unless-you're–with-a-major label of Pandora and the total free-for-all of some past services like Amie Street, but that's…

We do have manual curation in place. We are not very strict with the filtering but we ensure nothing bad comes in. After the great, good and average comes in, we let the algorithms take over and decide based on user activity, what kind of music to let surface.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#69
post #65

It's great that musicfellas is supporting the pay-what-you-want model. It's not so great that they pretty much lifted the slider from the album pages on http://www.loudr.fm (according to their blog post 3 days ago at http://blog.musicfellas.com/post/59478848137/generosity , musicfellas implemented PWYW "a few weeks back" - Loudr has had its current slider design since we launched in February of this year). Although o…

Your slider is definitely cool :) We did take the design inspiration for that from you. I'd love to have a chat with you guys. Feel free to write to us. Cheers!

Sorry, but it's not exactly "inspiration" if you copy the design exactly. You guys have a good thing going - design features in your own way and it'll help the consistency of your whole site!

We're available at info@loudr.fm if you want to get in touch.

Re: Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

#70
post #62

Nice work. FYI the flash blocker in chrome doesn't register that there's flash content on the site. I had to click around quite a bit in order to get an option to enable flash. Better yet, you should use the Web Audio API and fallback to flash for unsupported browsers :) http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/

We do have a html5 fallback, I'll get that looked into. Edit: Are you on firefox by any chance? Apparently mp3 is not supported there. If not, which browser are you using?

I suspect browser doesn’t matter much here. Console yields a TypeError until Flash is enabled (whitelisted) for the page.
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