Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
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Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#2Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs.
You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its data was destroyed last year by a PHP virus, so I rebuilt it from scratch.
I've been using it as my hacking playlist, and I hope you guys will enjoy it too!
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#3Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…
Loving it. Thanks a lot for sharing! I always love ideas that keep the randomness alive and don't try telling me what I should find interesting.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#4Kept hitting the next button until I realized it was not, in fact, the play button. Nice concept and work though! Would eat again.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#5Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…
Didn't you do this about 2 years ago? I remember people had to submit content to it though, I even offered to help develop but you said you were fine.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#6I'm loving every single song it's selecting for me. Is there a way I can login and save my loved songs (apart from scrobbling) ?
So I liked a song, then I clicked scrobble , it redirected to last.fm - fine, but when it returned to mixest, it started playing another song, and also lost all my previously loved songs :(
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#7I'm loving every single song it's selecting for me. Is there a way I can login and save my loved songs (apart from scrobbling) ? So I liked a song, then I clicked scrobble , it redirected to last.fm - fine, but when it returned to mixest, it started playing another song, and also lost all my previously loved songs :(
Ah, that's because www.mixest.com and mixest.com are technically different domains :(. I'll get that fixed up, but your loved songs should appear on one of the two domains.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#8Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…
I am absolutely loving this. Any chance of more permanent accounts though? Local storage/cookies are something I go through quite often, plus I'd love to be able to go back to songs at a friend's house or party and play some of these.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#9Very good execution and a good choice for the domain name. The design (green/white/red/hearts) reminds me of http://hypem.com/ - you should check it out if you haven't. It's got a similar theme (crawl indie blogs for music) and has a pretty big following.
Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
#10Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…
Didn't you do this about 2 years ago? I remember people had to submit content to it though, I even offered to help develop but you said you were fine.
The old developers never rebuilt the site after it was hacked, but I offered to take over the project.