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Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by dkd903 »

alexkiwi wrote: post #37
dkd903 wrote: post #33

Does not work for me, after twitter sign in, i am taken to this page: http://console.fm/genres which says "That page is missing, put out an Amber alert." in big

Yeah we had a problem a few minutes ago, should be working now.

Okay, works now :-)

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by stephank »

executive wrote: post #41

I'd check it out as I listen to beats all day, but I refuse to give any site my Twitter/Facebook details. Also, you broke the back button.

Really? I'm normally as paranoid as the next guy, but this only requests read access. Stuff that anyone can find out about you any way if you already have a (public) Twitter account.

The frontpage is rather mysterious, though, I agree.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by llambda »

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…

Off topic I know, but those are excellent tracks... Maybe somewhere else you could give further recommendations?

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by junkbit »

executive wrote: post #41

I'd check it out as I listen to beats all day, but I refuse to give any site my Twitter/Facebook details. Also, you broke the back button.

That's the whole point of OAuth; so that you can sign in without giving them your password. You can revoke the permissions of any 3rd party in your twitter settings page.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by alexkiwi »

maskin wrote: post #40
alexkiwi wrote: post #8

Console.fm is a way to listen to the top electronica charts, 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.

interesting how does it play it? how do you play it?

We've been electronica DJs for a few years and have our own special ways of music discovery. Console.fm automates the tedium that we used to spend looking ourselves. The music all comes from the soundcloud API and is played through sound manager 2.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by stephank »

alexkiwi wrote: post #26
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.

Slightly related, the genre list page was also terribly laggy to scroll for me. And this is on Chrome on a new series iMac.
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