A link to download/buy the music or even Artist's profile would be helpful. Love the colors, and the minimalistic UI.
Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
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#22love it!
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#23I absolutely love mixest, I've used it when it was launched here on hn 3 years ago... <3<3<3
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#24Love 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.
+1 for this. More background info in general (site where you found it, artist(s), album(s) and song) would go a long way. Nice alternative to my hype machine addiction.
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#25Music selection is good.
Simple to use.
Good stuff man
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#26Awesome site. Im curious as to how you defined your heuristics? Finding good obscure music seems like a hard thing to do programmatically.
It seems like you would want to find "good" music (which maybe could be determined by how many unique references link it) but thats the opposite of obscurity.. So how did you determine the quality of the "obscure" music you crawled? By hand?
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#27Mixest 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…
love it. can you give some insight regarding the "php virus"?
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#28Guys/gals in need of ideas to hack together: this is a perfect example of what to aim for. A minimal, easy to use app that draws a passionate niche.
Easier said then done, I know. But this is really outstanding execution of a light app for music lovers. Great work.
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#29Love it. The last.fm scrobble is a nice touch. Makes this site all the more awesome to use.
Simple, effective design too.. Love it.
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#30amazing!