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Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by lyime »

swombat wrote: post #47
lyime wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't really buy sets. Sets are basically podcasts that are mixed by DJs weekly for promotional purpose. Unless we collaborate with sites like Beatport or Juno to make this happen.

I understand that, but as it happens, sets (and mix CDs which are basically less often released, higher quality sets) are the only thing I listen to as far as electronic music is concerned. I do not listen to progressive house in single tracks. That doesn't even begin to make sense - progressive house is all about the progression across a set. The input of a DJ in selecting, arranging, mixing the tracks into a set is…

Thanks for the feedback. I am really happy to hear that you are interested in those features. A lot of the things you mentioned are planned and will eventually come into play. We are young right now, but we are definitely here to grow. Cheers.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by lyime »

mattmcknight wrote: post #39

I was only able to get two of the sets to play. Every other one sits at 0:00 with the play button clicked. Added it to my Flashblock whitelist, but the flash bar was way below the player, which was weird. The player should be able to pop out or iframe or something so that you can browse while listening. How do I gather and share? You should pre-check the buy links so they could go to Amazon, itunes, Juno, or wherever…

could you post a screenshot of what you are seeing?

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by wheels »

lyime wrote: post #50
ggruschow wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now that I came back to HN for my morning fix and made it through the form: 1. Seems to only have trance-y stuff, not the general electronic dance music (e.g. search for popular non-trance artists: Pendulum, Prodigy, or Aphex Twin). The only problem with that is the expectation from the description. 2. On my browsers (Safari, FF3), the sets search edit box isn't clickable / won't take focus. I can only search tracks…

I really appreciate your feedback. All your points are valid. The search box is disabled on the set page to keep the UI consistent but that functionality is not built yet. You again make a valid point that there isnt much content on the site. Relatively. Yes, Electronica is huge, there are literally dozens of genre. We really wanted to launch the service at a certain level before investing the time in covering differ…

You might want to indicate at first that you're focusing on certain genres (trance, it seems). The first several searches that I tried (for techno) returned nothing. Managing expectations there seems like it could be important.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by charlesju »

jyu wrote: post #42

Why do you slap me in the face with a full page sign up form, without giving me any clear benefits to signing up?

I think he isn't trying to court you guys as a consumer, but rather as fellow hackers to test his beta site. You guys should cut him some slack — I always thought YC was a positive environment, but all your comments are incredibly unhelpful and just showcase your personal laziness.

BTW, this is site is FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

It has a bunch of live DJ sets that you can listen to and even allows you to jump between tracks. It's for people that enjoy trance music and are tired of having to constantly find new sets.

Good job man, keep up the good work.

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by daveambrose »

daveambrose wrote: post #38

Looks like great progress since TC50 Akshay! Going to take the app for a spin in more detail tomorrow. I'll send feedback.

Here you go:

1. Flow of the signup form. I think this was mentioned before, but the "login" field should be titled "username" since you have it on the login field to the right.

2. Can you add a lighter color to the footer? I think it may look better with three variants of the black on the page.

3. Can you direct me to a tour of what Mugasha does, rather then pointing me to text with a "Find out more" pointing me to an "About" page with copy? Give me a guided tour, show me what it is and why it's useful!

Re: Ask HN: Review our startup: Mugasha - A better way to listen to electronic dance music

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Post by pgebhard »

Does anyone else feel that the play/pause button is backwards? For me, the button displays the "Play" arrow when the music is playing and it shows the pause button when it is paused. I know that sounds like how it should be, but I think that's the reverse of most other players that show the Play button when music is not playing, and, after clicking, the music begins and the button switches to give you the option to pause.

Also, I noticed that the album art was constantly flickering for me.

(I'm using FF 3.0.5 on OS X 10.5.6)

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