Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
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Re: Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
#2It's interesting, but one of the big draws of Pandora is the ability to like/dislike a song and have a station get more and more tailored to what I like. This seems to just be a random sampling of indie stuff.
Re: Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
#3What thinking?
Re: Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
#4It's interesting, but one of the big draws of Pandora is the ability to like/dislike a song and have a station get more and more tailored to what I like. This seems to just be a random sampling of indie stuff.
It's much more niche than Pandora, but I can see that if you like the kind of music it plays (mostly poorly-recorded very-indie rock songs of about two minutes in length, as far as I can tell) then you might like it better than Pandora, which has the downside that it seems to wind up playing a fairly small subset of songs on rapid rotation, at least in my experience.
Pandora aims to replace radio. This just aims to replace one radio station. Good luck to 'em.
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#5I think the idea of Mixest is great, but I also don't see it as a replacement for Pandora or even something like HypeM.
It's great to have the serendipity factor, but sometimes I just want to listen to 'custom-tailored-shuffle' ala Pandora, rather than actively managing the playlist.
To clarify: I find myself distracted by skipping a song much more often on Mixest than Pandora.
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#6Pandora is allowed to license and stream music based on a contract and DRM restrictions built into Flash. If this gets at all large it may be shut down by the music industry. Right now I can go into the source, find the URL of the mp3 file and just download it to my hard drive. I'm not sure if streaming rights have been given by the authors and if they know that their music can be downloaded.
Re: Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
#7simplicity in exchange for choice, imo .. is not really that compelling (I really don't find pandora that complicated to start with). I would like to judge this service a year from now, to see how compelling the use case is.
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#8Pandora is allowed to license and stream music based on a contract and DRM restrictions built into Flash. If this gets at all large it may be shut down by the music industry. Right now I can go into the source, find the URL of the mp3 file and just download it to my hard drive. I'm not sure if streaming rights have been given by the authors and if they know that their music can be downloaded.
Hey Locke, the music we play is gathered from indie music blogs - we figure that if there are already direct links to the mp3 file then it is ok to stream as well. We could be totally wrong though.
Re: Venture Pimp: Mixest is like Pandora but without all that thinking attached
#9It's interesting, but one of the big draws of Pandora is the ability to like/dislike a song and have a station get more and more tailored to what I like. This seems to just be a random sampling of indie stuff.
It's much more niche than Pandora, but I can see that if you like the kind of music it plays (mostly poorly-recorded very-indie rock songs of about two minutes in length, as far as I can tell) then you might like it better than Pandora, which has the downside that it seems to wind up playing a fairly small subset of songs on rapid rotation, at least in my experience. Pandora aims to replace radio. This just aims to r…
One vertical to begin with isn't a bad strategy. I think the one they've chosen is a good vertical to start with — the genre has a strong online community looking for new things. If it works with indie music, Mixest can broaden out.
Of course this might not be what they're intending to do at all.
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#10It's run by Wasabi Ventures' - perhaps an effort to do something neat to attract attention to their program and companies?
I've never heard of them, but it looks like they're a mix between VC and startup consulting firm - taking very active roles. Many of their portfolio "companies" even say Wasabi Ventures in the copyright - interesting.