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Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by Lukeas14 »

grovulent wrote: post #5

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such…

That might be out of the ordinary on Monday morning. But I can't imagine there's too much competition for the front page at 2 am on Saturday night.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

#22

Post by starsailor »

Good morning (and happy day!) from Italy. We're listening console.fm, good taste. And I like that"it requires Twitter log in to use the channel based chat system. We made this in 72 hours as a side project to listen to better music", it's perfect so with twitter account only.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

#23

Post by grovulent »

Lukeas14 wrote: post #21
grovulent wrote: post #5

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such…

That might be out of the ordinary on Monday morning. But I can't imagine there's too much competition for the front page at 2 am on Saturday night.

Maybe that reinforces my point? It's not that it hit the front page - it really doesn't take many votes for that even during busy hours. But that it got THIS many votes so quickly during a low period... hmm... sorry but it's just dubious to me.

Maybe lots of fans of electronic stay up late?

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

#24

Post by alexkiwi »

starsailor wrote: post #22

Good morning (and happy day!) from Italy. We're listening console.fm, good taste. And I like that"it requires Twitter log in to use the channel based chat system. We made this in 72 hours as a side project to listen to better music", it's perfect so with twitter account only.

We agree! The guys at http://envolve.com deserve a ton of credit for getting the chat set up, especially James. It's fantastic!!!

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

#25

Post by JonnieCache »

Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past.

For example, where on earth does this fit?

http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d

or this?

http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1

Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but that doesn't really do it justice. And having a 'misc' genre like 'electronica' is cheating. Electronica is a word invented and used by music journalists as a substitute for a proper understanding of the culture. And don't even think about including IDM or you will lose all credibility ;)

Otherwise, great work!

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by alexkiwi »

JonnieCache wrote: post #25

Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past. For example, where on earth does this fit? http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d or this? http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1 Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but th…

Ping me off HN so we can talk more about this, would love to get more feedback on finding amazing music off the beaten path. 01@helloworld.im or the email in my HN profile.
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