Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this. • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#21

Post by Inversechi » Thu, May 10, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

Thanks for putting this together... Looks good:) reminds me of console.fm.

Is there any way to skip through the selected mix?

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#22

Post by bernatfp » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

A huge thumbs up for this! May I suggest the Resident Advisor and XLR8R podcasts to be added too? Again: Thanks for creating this site.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#23

Post by aidos » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

Fluxx wrote: post #16

There was a Soundcloud account with a like every essential mix ever on it the other week, but shortly after it disappeared - I think due to licensing issues with BBC content outside of the UK. Did you look into that for your player?

I'm still seeing it:

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#24

Post by LeandroLovisolo » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

I absolutely love this.

Couple of things:

- It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix.

- Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#25

Post by bcrescimanno » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

Right around the turn of the millenium, I downloaded a couple dozen Essential Mixes while I was on the GT campus. This just made my day--I really hope any legal issues can be avoided and this can stay online. :)

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#26

Post by kreutz » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:03 PM UTC

bernatfp wrote: post #22

A huge thumbs up for this! May I suggest the Resident Advisor and XLR8R podcasts to be added too? Again: Thanks for creating this site.

Thanks man! Those two are definitely in the works.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#27

Post by kreutz » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

LeandroLovisolo wrote: post #24

I absolutely love this. Couple of things: - It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. - Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.

| It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. This is in the works. Just wanted to get the bare minimum out the door.

| Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page. Looking into this right now.

Thanks for the feedback:)

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#28

Post by bcrescimanno » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:14 PM UTC

bcrescimanno wrote: post #25

Right around the turn of the millenium, I downloaded a couple dozen Essential Mixes while I was on the GT campus. This just made my day--I really hope any legal issues can be avoided and this can stay online. :)

I really can't describe how much I'm enjoying going back and finding mixes from that era. Not only is the music great; but I feel like I just stepped into a time machine!

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#29

Post by zennit » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:23 PM UTC

love the site design, can I ask what you are using to build the front/backend? Love the colours and the gradient used in the background, how is this generated? Thanks

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

#30

Post by Tossrock » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:29 PM UTC

kreutz wrote: post #12

jskopek wrote: post #6

For those who aren't aware, getting offered to play an essential mix is a huge honor in the electronic music world. Most of the mixes on this site are from artists giving it their very best. Cracking good work! This looks incredibly polished for a side project; are you planning on building it up?

Thanks for the kind words! Yes, we are planning on building it up. Just wanted to get it out and get some feedback.

In case you don't know, the BBC is pretty happy to take down sites hosting their content. Be careful. I'm pretty sure Mixriot tried the same thing and got burned.

Feedback-wise, you might want to look into more flexible search for non-standard letters. Concrete example, "Tiesto" returns no results, but "Tiësto" returns seven. I have a feeling most people are not going to take the effort to find an umlauted e and will just assume you don't have any of his mixes.