I love it. I really wish there was a link to more information about the artist or at least to where the crawler found the audio. I'm sure the artists would appreciate it also. On that topic, how legal is this? Is all the music public domain?
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#12Love this, already found a great new artist I love. Well done. Another vote for a little more info on where the track was found so information on the artist can be chased down.
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#13Woah, blew my ears off. I did not expect it to start playing instantly.
Awesomeness past that. Simple. Quick. No bullshit. I usually don't use services like this but I find myself still listening.
You should offer a link to where you got the track, the artist title and song name are great starts.
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#14I'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.
You were right. They were on www
A small bug : sometimes when I click Next, nothing happens, so I clicked Next many times. That ended up in the song history becoming like this : http://i.imgur.com/yUcj5.png
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#15I like it. Is there a volume control?
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#16Nice job, like hypem-lite. My only minor gripe is that the "more obscure" needs to be "more more obscure" for my taste...but, that's probably just me.
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#17Great execution, no barrier to playing.
If I understand what you are doing correctly (scraping mp3 blogs), most of the music is provided to the blogs by artist (or PR) for purposes of promotion, so legally it's relatively solid.
I'm curious to know what blogs you are scraping, and how the crawler is moving on to new blogs? I chase a lot of music blogs and host one myself, and know how inconsistent they can be design and format-wise!
Also suggest linking to the original blog the song was found from, somewhat of a courtesy to the blogger, but even more as a means to find more information about the artist (without you having to input that data yourself)
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#18Works on iphone (without autoplay of course). Oddly the skip and play icons are reversed, but the functionality is not? Almost made me give up thinking iOS might not be supported.
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#19this is awesome! simple and excellent idea, clean (and fast!) interface, and just well done overall. what are your plans for it?
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#20The site is incredible. I love the design and the extraordinary simplicity in functionality.
To make a side comment, this seems like an ideal MVP. It gets all the core functionality well-implemented, with enough polish to make it captivating.
Some users mentioned that user accounts, despite the use of HTML5 to store user-specific info, is something that would still be useful. I agree, and it makes it an ideal part of your next revision.
Keep up the good work! This is definitely bookmarked.