The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea. What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random. If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an…
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Great idea, but not hearing anything on iOS Safari.
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#12Small bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black
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#14Cool!
Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your personal playlist.
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#15Tells me it can't play because of the region (Norway) and also the text in the player is nearly unreadable with some sort of color distortion.
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#16Very nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.
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#17Nice idea. So far the only patterns though are girl singer = pink and rap = red.
sad song = blue seems to be a strong trend too.
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#18Very nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.
That seems more likely to lead people (not sure which way though). For example if a song had a dark background (because of previous choices) then people might choose a contrasting background, etc..
It would be interesting to match up after a while with a similar project using "mood words" to create a map of mood to colour which could be broken down by region, by music preferences and such.
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#19Not streamable in my region (UK) :(
Why can't they just say up front "this service only for the USA".
Pisses me right off.
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#20Tells me it can't play because of the region (Puerto Rico)