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Re: Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by rasjani »

Maybe the genre list could be a bit more extended ? For example, consider "reggae". While one could think that dancehall is also reggae, its sort of rare that people who would enjoy rocksteady would be pleased to get something from dancehall just because the "top level genre" matches ?

Re: Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by kylel95 »

rasjani wrote: post #21

Maybe the genre list could be a bit more extended ? For example, consider "reggae". While one could think that dancehall is also reggae, its sort of rare that people who would enjoy rocksteady would be pleased to get something from dancehall just because the "top level genre" matches ?

the list of genres when filtering songs are only genres of uploaded songs.

you are able to upload songs with reggae as the genre once you make an account. i see how that could be confusing.

Re: Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by kylel95 »

notpushkin wrote: post #10

Neat! This reminds me of This Is My Jam [0] that ran from 2011 to 2015 I think. It was basically the same idea, but you shared the tracks that you liked right now (and you could only share one track a week) which is an interesting twist. I miss it sometimes – maybe Loopy will fill that niche to me :-) One feature request outright, if I may: Bandcamp has lots of music I love personally, so if Loopy supported it that w…

appreciate you. ahh nice, that's awesome, cool site. why did it end after the 4 years?

true, will look into adding bandcamp integration.

Re: Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by notpushkin »

kylel95 wrote: post #23
notpushkin wrote: post #10

Neat! This reminds me of This Is My Jam [0] that ran from 2011 to 2015 I think. It was basically the same idea, but you shared the tracks that you liked right now (and you could only share one track a week) which is an interesting twist. I miss it sometimes – maybe Loopy will fill that niche to me :-) One feature request outright, if I may: Bandcamp has lots of music I love personally, so if Loopy supported it that w…

appreciate you. ahh nice, that's awesome, cool site. why did it end after the 4 years? true, will look into adding bandcamp integration.

They've been a part of an accelerator (The Echo Nest) and I think they just couldn't figure out the way to make it sustainable? Although I think there could be a way to run it as a hobby project, too, but that might be emotionally taxing after 4 years. Either way, I'm super grateful for TIMJ, I've found many great songs there.

Re: Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by _HMCB_ »

kylel95 wrote: post #20
_HMCB_ wrote: post #16

Unfortunately Spotify links don’t work for me. For instance, the following URL copied from Spotify’s share extension in iOS returns a not-valid link in your app: https://spotify.link/0elKaAdp1Cb

mhm thanks for pointing this out but i tried this format and it does not work with the api. it must be like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/0QDr66VdiCEuyDF33MAtlG?si=OIn... i got the link by clicking the song in the app -> share -> copy link. not sure if the share extension is generating different links, different version or something.

Yes, that’s what I did on my iPhone. I used the app’s share feature and ‘copy link.’ I can’t see iOS circumventing Spotify links.
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