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Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by Wesmax27 »

edb wrote: post #38
Wesmax27 wrote: post #35

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Thanks for the insightful post. One question though: don't you think your highlight about last.fm and approach to HN is a little too homogenous? While I can appreciate music suggestions that are in line with my taste, that is easy enough to find on my own (through the methods you suggested). What isn't easy to find are bands that sound nothing like what I've heard, but could be just as brilliant as the bands I know a…

It may be a little shortsighted, but it's hard to sum up all my thoughts in one textarea. The long story short of it is that in my experiences, a real life discussion about music among 5 knowledgeable people always turns into a festival of egos. I think if you put it on the internet, it's going to magnify that worse than what you could see in the hacker community because everybody who loves music thinks they like the…

I guess it's all in what you want.

An analogy: when I want to meet new people I usually go to parties that my friends are having because I figure that if my friends like the guests then chances are I will too. However, every now and then I go to completely random bars and gatherings because I want to be exposed to a completely new circle of people who have no common relationships with me or my friends.

Similarly in music, there are times when I want to discover things that are similar to what I have liked in the past, but also times when I want to discover things that are completely random and unrelated to anything I have ever heard or liked.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by edb »

Wesmax27 wrote: post #41
edb wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be a little shortsighted, but it's hard to sum up all my thoughts in one textarea. The long story short of it is that in my experiences, a real life discussion about music among 5 knowledgeable people always turns into a festival of egos. I think if you put it on the internet, it's going to magnify that worse than what you could see in the hacker community because everybody who loves music thinks they like the…

I guess it's all in what you want. An analogy: when I want to meet new people I usually go to parties that my friends are having because I figure that if my friends like the guests then chances are I will too. However, every now and then I go to completely random bars and gatherings because I want to be exposed to a completely new circle of people who have no common relationships with me or my friends. Similarly in m…

Good point. In the case of both last.fm and HN, maybe they would benefit from a "Lemming" feature that could be turned on and off. :)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by delackner »

I would think part of the spirit of HN would manifest in a music site as a focus on music that in some way feels like it brings something new to the art. Almost all the music that becomes popular today, even within specific genres, is not that inventive.

Yet there are some artists that, at specific times, try something that really feels new. In the dance music space for instance, about 2001(+- 2 years) artists discovered they could for instance loop over a segment of their song, then shorten the loop until it became a stuttered noisy instant, then continue with the rest of the song. This sounded amazing at first, then everyone copied it, now people are used to it and a song has to use it creatively to make people smile.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by moxy »

rms wrote: post #34
moxy wrote: post #33

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Any private music tracker forum will do. I have invitations as well, if anyone is interested.

Yes, what.cd is equal to waffles, are there other ones?

Yes, to say the least. But they are far more specialized, and more difficult to invite people to. And, you probably wouldn't be interested anyway.

However, What and Waffles are the largest and most content-oriented.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by rms »

moxy wrote: post #44
rms wrote: post #34

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Yes, what.cd is equal to waffles, are there other ones?

Yes, to say the least. But they are far more specialized, and more difficult to invite people to. And, you probably wouldn't be interested anyway. However, What and Waffles are the largest and most content-oriented.

Any that might have reasonable amounts of non-Western classical music? Email me, please...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a HN for music?

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Post by rms »

kf wrote: post #13

The forums at www.waffles.fm -- I have never seen a place better to make a post "I like such and such obscure bands/types of music; please give me recommendations." I've also discovered a great amount of new music by watching the internal top10 lists. Email me, I have some invites...

OK, I got the emails from everyone, will send invites as they open and I have invites, which could take a while.
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