Very good. The only missing feature would be a way to be able to navigate with the music still playing. Perhaps a simple "open in popup" like a lot of radio website used to do would work fine. Ideally having the website as a single-page-app.
Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music
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#42Just tried to find two "modern" composers:
Vasks and Gulda. You have neither.
Peteris Vasks [0] is "now is one of the most influential and praised European contemporary composers."
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#43Coming from someone who's not very familiar with classical music and who signed up to start getting into it... Why am I forced to 'star' 5 composers and 5 works upon registration? I recognized a most of the top ~10 composers but I'm sure most people will just click the top 5 and move on which really defeats the purpose doesn't it? And then once I'm at the homepage, I don't immediately see where I can review / change…
Hi timmonsjg, the welcome page has 2 main purposes: 1. you see posts on your homepage feed of composers you followed (of course you can see all other posts without leacving the feed but only posts related to your followed composers are loaded by default) 2. Get work recommendations based on your followed composers and starred works. You are right that it sucks if you know little about classical music. A skip button w…
A short optional sample of every composers and songs would be nice, just to get an idea of the music. I can't remember music in my head (kind of Aphantasia for music), so it's really hard for me to choose just from the list.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like a Dvorak or Martinu trio or quartet. I'll look into it today. Brings up a pet peve for musicians-- why aren't musicians often credited in other media that uses their work? Sheesh!
Indeed, that's my peeve as well. This work wasn't credited anywhere in the credits, we even contacted movie staff and they didn't know. We contacted the cellist in the scene, and he said it was some random score he had with him, but he didn't have his old notes with him and couldn't find the piece in storage.
I'm now thinking early Shostakovitch-ish. Very "inside" for him though. Why do you want to know? You could probably transcribe the passage... but if you like it, you know who else you'd like too now. ?
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#45Just tried to find two "modern" composers: Vasks and Gulda. You have neither. Peteris Vasks [0] is "now is one of the most influential and praised European contemporary composers." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%93teris_Vasks
Thanks jdemler for reporting, you can also add composer requests in the website itself at https://classicalmusiconly.com/request/composers
I will add all pending requests before the weekend
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#46https://classicalmusiconly.com/auth/social/complete/facebook gave me an error 500
That's weird, I will look into the logs and see what can be done. Thanks Raphmedia for reporting.
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#47Hey, just a quick note, I'd personally enjoy a big fat action button on the landing page that just says "Play" (just like the "i'm feeling lucky" button on the "TV" page). I know you have higher ambitions with the site (social, etc), but, anecdotally, i'm studying for exams right now and don't really have the motivation to parse all that text and creating a new user, but you could've easily had me listening for an ho…
This is why I love Youtube live channels. They just play a constant stream of music without having to sign up or do anything else complicated.
What are your favorite YouTube live channels?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, that's my peeve as well. This work wasn't credited anywhere in the credits, we even contacted movie staff and they didn't know. We contacted the cellist in the scene, and he said it was some random score he had with him, but he didn't have his old notes with him and couldn't find the piece in storage.
I'm now thinking early Shostakovitch-ish. Very "inside" for him though. Why do you want to know? You could probably transcribe the passage... but if you like it, you know who else you'd like too now. ?
A few people and I are just looking for the piece because we like the excerpt and want to listen to the full piece.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, that's my peeve as well. This work wasn't credited anywhere in the credits, we even contacted movie staff and they didn't know. We contacted the cellist in the scene, and he said it was some random score he had with him, but he didn't have his old notes with him and couldn't find the piece in storage.
wait... you contacted the cellist???? wow, ok. I'm impressed with your research! Who was the cellist? That might help me. If it was something he had with him, it was more likely for a gig or a student. I did a quick check of all Dvorak Quartets- but didn't hit upon the passage. I chose Dvorak because of the pre-copland what would become the American vibe. Don't you think? The reason I don't think it's by Ry Cooder is…
It was Marston Smith: http://lordofthecello.com/
It's definitely not by Ry Cooder, we contacted him and he said he hadn't composed it. It sounds a lot like Glazunov, too:
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#50Is it possible to listen to classical music on your site without registration ?