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Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by lux »

lux wrote: post #17

Search is a bit slow ATM, but selection seems good already. I didn't think I had to click 'Save Playlist' after clicking the pluses, maybe it would be better to auto-save the first one or create a default 'Untitled' and ask you to name it. That was also totally not self-explanatory to a non-registered user, but it did keep the playlist selection after signing up which is good. For the results, it would be cool to see…

While I'm at it, a few feature suggestions:

* Export playlist in standard format for external players.

* Need a way to share playlists with friends (sharethis.com or addthis.com?).

* Post playlist onto other sites (Facebook app for example).

* A way for artists to add themselves to the search.

* Continue playing current song in iframe while I'm searching for others (see thesixtyone.com for example).

Good luck!

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by louislouis »

paulgb wrote: post #8

Looks good. I'm confused about how playlists work though - I can add songs to it, but how do I play it or view it? A killer feature that songza is missing is the ability to create and share a playlist without logging in. edit: Another problem: since you are getting the music from remote sources, they can stick in HTTP authentication headers. I got hit with a few of those. Not sure if there is a practical technical so…

The playlist can be viewed with right-click mouse button. Just added that to the site text :)

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by mpc »

This is great but with the RIAA suing 12 year olds and all, I'm pretty sure they'll shut you down for allowing me to listen to the beatles and metallica for free.

Awesome app though. It looks like a great starting point.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by Hexstream »

louislouis wrote: post #23
hugh wrote: post #9

I'm confused as to what I'm doing. I search for music, I add songs to my playlist, and then... what?

I'm guessing you have javascript turned off? Otherwise the songs should just play instantly.

Why, oh why does such a site require Javascript?!

edit: I'm not against requiring Javascript for those parts of your website that absolutely, positively require it, but everything that can work without JS should gracefully degrade.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by hugh »

ambition wrote: post #18
hugh wrote: post #9

I'm confused as to what I'm doing. I search for music, I add songs to my playlist, and then... what?

It plays music for me.

Oh, I see, I've got it to work now. I was just clicking "add to playlist" and nothing was happening, but if you click on the name of the song it starts playing.

In which case, very impressive. I'm particularly impressed that it even finds mashups, and the interface (apart from the difficulty I had with getting it to play) is very nice.

I hope you've thought through the legal issues. It could really use a FAQ with answers to questions like "So where the hell is all this music coming from?"

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by nickb »

demandred wrote: post #15

are you using the songza api? i tried a few searches, and its clear, while your search is good, theirs is much better. great execution, but where's the differentiation with Songza, Seeqpod, Streamzy, et. al?

And don't forget this app: http://listen.grooveshark.com/ It was posted here by someone (author I guess) and I ended up using it for some time because it has playlists. I now check it when I'm looking for something specific. But most of the time, I just use last.fm or Pandora.

Most of these apps just do a search on Youtube and play the audio portion of videos. Only prob is that audio quality is not so great but on my laptop speakers I can't even tell the difference so all is good.

I like MixTurtle. It's a nice app! Good job louislouis! Add a queue/playlist and I'll use it as a default music search app.

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