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TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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hi guys. embed were sorta thrown together qnd a few months ago, so they're still fairly basic. we plan on redesigning them and adding embeddable playlists in the near future.

Are there regular playlists (i.e. on site not embedded) ?

yes, there's a tag-based playlist system -- just favorite a song to begin.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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I experimented with combining the "Digg model" with indie music when I created Contrastream and although I have been too busy with another start-up to flesh out the idea, I still believe there is a lot of potential. I still find it difficult to find new indie music.

The next level may be a combination of scraped content (hypem) and social voting.

I recently met up with the founders of another startup trying to tackle this problem at http://cherrypeel.com, and they seemed excited about it as well. Hopefully there is some money to be made from it to make it sustainable.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Are there regular playlists (i.e. on site not embedded) ?

yes, there's a tag-based playlist system -- just favorite a song to begin.

Oh okay I think I finally worked it after toying with things off and on over 20 minutes - a "tag radio" list has appeared when I'm in a radio section and if I click one of those tags music will play continuously. I guess by playlists I meant ones I create.

In any case I think this feature needs to be a lot clearer.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, there's a tag-based playlist system -- just favorite a song to begin.

Oh okay I think I finally worked it after toying with things off and on over 20 minutes - a "tag radio" list has appeared when I'm in a radio section and if I click one of those tags music will play continuously. I guess by playlists I meant ones I create. In any case I think this feature needs to be a lot clearer.

I think you're on the home page. For an example, you can see my personal tag playlist named 'mellow':

http://www.thesixtyone.com/tags/song/show/sam/mellow/

Or go to your profile and click on the tags that appear to your right.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Does this do any sort of relating how one user likes music to how another user likes music? It seems to me that this would be a necessary element, unless you're willing to cater so thoroughly to one specific defined community that you don't care. (Is that the case?)

I don't think it uses Collaborative Filtering technology, but each user has their own radio which is basically a list of their favorite songs.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh okay I think I finally worked it after toying with things off and on over 20 minutes - a "tag radio" list has appeared when I'm in a radio section and if I click one of those tags music will play continuously. I guess by playlists I meant ones I create. In any case I think this feature needs to be a lot clearer.

I think you're on the home page. For an example, you can see my personal tag playlist named 'mellow': http://www.thesixtyone.com/tags/song/show/sam/mellow/ Or go to your profile and click on the tags that appear to your right.

Right thanks :-) I see now I can just go to my profile and "listen to radio" to play my favourites.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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I just started fooling w/ it and MIA "Paper Planes" is at the top along w/ the FLOBOTS "handlebars." Are either of these guys indy? Could a Rolling Stones song make it on here? If there is no criteria by which you are too big, won't it degenerate into the top 40?

Are you assuming their intention is to keep the sixtyone.com music community closed to major pop artists? Would that be such a bad thing? How would they then handle an indie act that becomes bigger down the road? Who or how would they measure a band's "popularity"? I think it would be great to see major artists branching out and using different distribution mechanisms. Please, leave it up to me to decide what music I want to listen to, not some third party who decides if a band isn't cool enough anymore for their community or me.
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