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Re: Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome

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Post by howon92 »

calbear81 wrote: post #2

Nice, can you describe how this compares to Streamus?

Yes I'd love to! Streamus was way ahead of this and it was a great inspiration for Instant Music. One key difference is that users of Instant Music can play songs off BillBoard and iTunes charts and choose their favorite genres. Like Streamus, users can search for the songs they want and create their own playlists with them. However, users cannot "save" because there are no user accounts. So the nicest thing about Instant Music is that when you don't know what you want to listen to, you can just turn this on and start playing music.

Re: Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome

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Post by calbear81 »

howon92 wrote: post #3
calbear81 wrote: post #2

Nice, can you describe how this compares to Streamus?

Yes I'd love to! Streamus was way ahead of this and it was a great inspiration for Instant Music. One key difference is that users of Instant Music can play songs off BillBoard and iTunes charts and choose their favorite genres. Like Streamus, users can search for the songs they want and create their own playlists with them. However, users cannot "save" because there are no user accounts. So the nicest thing about In…

Cool, that makes sense. The process of creating playlists can be a bit daunting. I had two ideas I wanted to shoot you:

Community Playlists - In our office we have a JamBox that one person broadcasts to. We all want to take turns picking the next song, would love to have a turntable.fm style option to invite other users to join a group and collectively manage the playlist.

Lists based on songs on blogs - Would love to just follow some of my favorite blogs recommendations like the ability to load the playlist from Pretty Much Amazing. You could do this by looking for all links that point to SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.

Re: Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome

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Post by howon92 »

timl88 wrote: post #5

I like it. I have a couple of ideas: -Add album art -Ability to search for a song Greta job so far!

You can search for any song and make your own playlist. From the charts option, choose "favorites" and then you will see the search bar. You can also pick songs from the Billboard or iTunes charts to be on that same list :)

Re: Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome

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Post by howon92 »

calbear81 wrote: post #4
howon92 wrote: post #3

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Yes I'd love to! Streamus was way ahead of this and it was a great inspiration for Instant Music. One key difference is that users of Instant Music can play songs off BillBoard and iTunes charts and choose their favorite genres. Like Streamus, users can search for the songs they want and create their own playlists with them. However, users cannot "save" because there are no user accounts. So the nicest thing about In…

Cool, that makes sense. The process of creating playlists can be a bit daunting. I had two ideas I wanted to shoot you: Community Playlists - In our office we have a JamBox that one person broadcasts to. We all want to take turns picking the next song, would love to have a turntable.fm style option to invite other users to join a group and collectively manage the playlist. Lists based on songs on blogs - Would love t…

Those are awesome ideas!! I will try so that you will at least see the first one in a near future and I will look into how I should go about the second idea. Thank you so much!

Re: Show HN: Instant Music plays songs on Chrome

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Post by keywonc »

howon92 wrote: post #8
timl88 wrote: post #5

I like it. I have a couple of ideas: -Add album art -Ability to search for a song Greta job so far!

You can search for any song and make your own playlist. From the charts option, choose "favorites" and then you will see the search bar. You can also pick songs from the Billboard or iTunes charts to be on that same list :)

I found the search function sorta hard to discover. Can you make it more prominent? I think it's great that you can build your own playlist. BTW is the custom playlist saved next time I open Chrome?
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