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can you give us a short introduction to your startup?
thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page. We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.
Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?
Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!
Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'players' - like, WinAmp / WMP / etc. or like other members of the site? I use Amazon's music store, so that's kind of interesting to me.
\*Edit: I intermittently get "t61.flashplayer.init is not a function" error. It prevents me from listening to music. Any idea on what to do with that?
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It looks like such a fantastic idea! Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent. (Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)
We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.
VMWare Player is free and images are bountiful. VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Ubuntu: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 Can you give me music now? :-)
>You can purchase DRM-free songs by clicking "buy" on select players. Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'players' - like, WinAmp / WMP / etc. or like other members of the site? I use Amazon's music store, so that's kind of interesting to me. \*Edit: I intermittently get "t61.flashplayer.init is not a function" error. It prevents me from listening to music. Any idea on what to do with that?
We'll look into the issue you reported (thanks). What browser/OS are you using?
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The name is cool, the UI is tight and I just found a cool new band. Great work.
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We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.
I was really starting to get into during the last hour of work, but then I came home and I really don't want to reboot over to Windows from Ubuntu. And starting next year even my work machine will be Ubuntu... VMWare Player is free and images are bountiful. VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Ubuntu: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 Can you give me music now? :-)
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I was really starting to get into during the last hour of work, but then I came home and I really don't want to reboot over to Windows from Ubuntu. And starting next year even my work machine will be Ubuntu... VMWare Player is free and images are bountiful. VMWare player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ Ubuntu: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1068 Can you give me music now? :-)
Haha, thanks for the suggestions. We actually bought a $400 Dell laptop (I have a Mac, but what a steal!) and are expecting it within a week. You can bet Ubuntu is going on that within <30 seconds of its arrival. If you have an e-mail address, I can send you a message when the site is Ubuntu-ready.
Let me know at donal.h at that gmail place.