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Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by yazanator »

ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #2

Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that…

I love it! Such an awesome site. I like to listen to Classical playlists curated on Spotify because I don't want to go out and look for specific composers, etc. It would be cool to have something like that, where there's a main-stream/playlist that I can play whenever I log in without having to search for composer name, etc. Also, definitely integrate Spotify and SoundCloud if you can!

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by ClassicalmOnly »

benob wrote: post #80

What's the point of following a dead composer? As if they were going to compose new work...

Hi benob, following composers serves for 2 main purposes:

1. you get posts on your homepage feed of composers you followed (you can also see other posts on your feed but the default is filtered by your followed composers)

2. Discover work recommendations based on your followed composers and starred works

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by nicky0 »

ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #17
tmoravec wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love to see this! As a classical music fan, I'm frustrated by how difficult it is to find good quality music online. Here's a couple of ideas how to improve the tool: * Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music). * I'm missing interprets. Search for "Karajan" yields nothing, yet Karajan is a super impor…

Thank you! I am really glad you like it > Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al I am planning to do that. However, Youtube will remain the default. I guess that Spotify has some limitiations (must be loggenot in, limitations outside the US, I doubt that many obscure works have recordings) > missing interprets. Search for "Karajan" yields nothing The search currently works for composers only. But it will expanded soon to mu…

The Spotify classical catalogue is pretty deep. Also it is very much international - it being a Swedish company.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by thomas »

ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #2

Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that…

Awesome site! Really like how it's build, how it works, etc. Any chance you'd do an explainer on how you built it, why you built it, etc? Sort of how indie hackers handles these things? I'd love to learn more.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by ClassicalmOnly »

thomas wrote: post #86
ClassicalmOnly wrote: post #2

Hello HN! I am really excited to show you Classical Music Only, a social website dedicate to discover, listen and discuss classical music. I actually tried to do a "show HN" thread 6 months ago when the first alpha release was published but somehow the link was dead and nobody saw it except me:D. Now the website is in beta phase and has become much more mature since first published. The website has many features that…

Awesome site! Really like how it's build, how it works, etc. Any chance you'd do an explainer on how you built it, why you built it, etc? Sort of how indie hackers handles these things? I'd love to learn more.

Thank you! I was planning to mention some technical details but I totally forgot! The website mainly uses Vue.js for frontend (which was a total pleasant experience for a somewhat not small project (12,000+ vue LOC)) and Python (Django) + Golang for backend. I really want to share my experience with the vue community. I was more than satisfied dealing with it on a daily basis.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by ajnin »

At a quick glance, a few remarks about the onboarding :

- the "I'm feeling lucky" button you mention in the comments here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861489) is nowhere to be found, maybe not on the home page ? I did a ctrl-F to be sure but nothing.

- You ask me to choose 5 of my favorites composers, but you only show me the top N most popular ones ... it feels very rude, you basically ask me to lie, imagine if on a regular music site I could only like something in the current top 40. Also consider that the probability that the 5 favorites composers of a given person are all in the top 40 is very low. I feel like presenting them that way is only going to make the most popular artificially even more popular which I don't think is something that you want.

- It seems even worse for the "favorite pieces" list. The probability that a person's favorite pieces are all in the top N you selected is very very low. The majority of the pieces in that list were composed by composers I didn't choose just before.

- The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni) was in the list 4 times, and The Rite Of Spring twice, as well as Chopin's Nocturnes (which is several pieces, by the way).

Apart from that I like the high-density layout, a welcome departure from the usual sites composed mostly of empty space.

Re: Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

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Post by ClassicalmOnly »

ajnin wrote: post #88

At a quick glance, a few remarks about the onboarding : - the "I'm feeling lucky" button you mention in the comments here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861489 ) is nowhere to be found, maybe not on the home page ? I did a ctrl-F to be sure but nothing. - You ask me to choose 5 of my favorites composers, but you only show me the top N most popular ones ... it feels very rude, you basically ask me to lie, im…

Hi ajnin, thanks for the thorough feedback

> - the "I'm feeling lucky" button you mention in the comments here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861489) is nowhere to be found, maybe not on the home page ? I did a ctrl-F to be sure but nothing.

It's on the TV page https://classicalmusiconly.com/tv

> You ask me to choose 5 of my favorites composers, but you only show me the top N most popular ones

> The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni) was in the list 4 times, and The Rite Of Spring twice, as well as Chopin's Nocturnes (which is several pieces, by the way).

These 2 points are totally valid and I am aware of them. These 2 points are connected to each other due to some technical difficulty (or maybe a bug?) in Django. We had difficulty to get unique random set of filtered items. That's why you see probably some duplicate items. Other users may have not experieced it because it happens randomly. That's why we ordered composers by some other metric. However, you can follow/unfollow any composer at anytime later inside their profile pages or on the TV page while listening a work by that composer.

> It seems even worse for the "favorite pieces" list. The probability that a person's favorite pieces are all in the top N you selected is very very low. The majority of the pieces in that list were composed by composers I didn't choose just before.

Because The starring stage doesn't depend on the followed composers' stage. It's rational because you may want to star works within a bigger set of items and not be bound by followed composers only.

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