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Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

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Post by jannes »

The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea.

What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random.

If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of that data.

Another idea: You could compare the colors with the cover art of the respective albums to see if there are matches.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

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Post by markkat »

spacemanaki wrote: post #5

Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for some well known artist before even hearing the song.

I agree. Otherwise you are inadvertently asking for the color of the artist too. Very interesting idea, though.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

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Post by paulcedars »

This is really cool.

I think it would be better for user engagement to not automatically show what other users chose, and also to have the next song start streaming automatically if the user chose a color for the previous song. I could see going tvtropes on the site and inadvertently spending a lot of time there if it was easier to maintain my mental flow.

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