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Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by smrtinsert »

ryannevius wrote: post #9
return0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What 3d effect?

I think he's referring to the parallax banner...which probably didn't take much time at all to implement, but is arguably distracting and unnecessary.

and sucks. since sucks is a word thats apparently free to use anywhere now.

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by coreymaass »

charlespwd wrote: post #5

I love it! Thanks for this.

Really cool idea. I've been digging around soundcloud a lot lately, and it's as challenging as any other site to find good stuff. My immediate feedback is most musicians like their own productions the most. So I keep getting "artist123 likes this song by artist123". Any way to filter out themselves?

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by radley »

angusb wrote: post #15

Did anyone else find "Musicians you love listen to what you like" pretty difficult to digest? There's probably a more user friendly way to say that. Cool idea though.

Music that inspires the artists you listen to.

Not a new concept, but this one is hard to use. Only one track is presented at a time. Very slow to discover.

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by ocolot »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #10

I think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts…

That's a great case. I believe we should be careful with historical biais, because some it could lead to focussing results on a particular music style. In my case fore example, I listen to electonic, jazz and classical music depending on the mood of the week...

It is not open source, but you may be willing to give a hand ;)

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by ocolot »

mychaelangelo wrote: post #12

I like the idea of it. In fact, as an ex-musician myself i have a few ideas of building something using the Soundcloud API. More work definitely needs to be done in the 'music discovery' space and I am glad you've done something with it :)

Cool! This is just the start, so I'd be glad to discuss more about it ;) (twitter: ocolot)

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by ocolot »

ryannevius wrote: post #9
return0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What 3d effect?

I think he's referring to the parallax banner...which probably didn't take much time at all to implement, but is arguably distracting and unnecessary.

well... 3 mins ;) ... ok, I could remove it!

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by ocolot »

golergka wrote: post #7

Hey, that's great! ...and the first track is an hour-long Boiler Room set. May be you can implemented some kind of filtering feature?

Ah cool, Boiler Room sets are usually great, to my taste! Would you be willing to filter by max duration, tracks vs mixes, or something else?

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by mxfh »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #10

I think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts…

Yes it's Diplo. Although souncloud.com/stream page and reposts[1] work quite good for my needs already.

Diplo has second account for reposts[2][3] only.

I personally prefer a curated approach, like blip.fm[4] offered/offers, to any automated methods so far.

[1]http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/527370-w...

[2]https://soundcloud.com/diploapproved

[3]http://doandroidsdance.com/news/diplo-approved-soundcloud/

[4]http://blip.fm/all?p=1 Is this site more than a zombie? Still no soundcloud integration in sight.

Re: DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like

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Post by k-mcgrady »

ocolot wrote: post #24
k-mcgrady wrote: post #10

I think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts…

That's a great case. I believe we should be careful with historical biais, because some it could lead to focussing results on a particular music style. In my case fore example, I listen to electonic, jazz and classical music depending on the mood of the week... It is not open source, but you may be willing to give a hand ;)

I would love to help but I'm not much of a web developer :) I'll definitely be following closely though so if I see a way I can help I'll let you know.
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