Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music

Post by doublec » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

gshahlot wrote: post #63

Sym3tri wrote: 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?

Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Aug 30, 2013, 10:41 PM UTC

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,…

Post by nnnnni » Sat, Aug 31, 2013, 12:08 AM 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.

Post by chasing » Sat, Aug 31, 2013, 3:54 AM UTC

Post by gshahlot » Sat, Aug 31, 2013, 7:59 AM UTC

dannyolinsky wrote: post #78

nice design. been looking for something like this for a while - always end up listening to the same tracks on spotify even though they have some decent discovery apps. seems like a good idea to completely separate out indie music, eliminating the chance of users like myself always going back to their starred spotify playlists.