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Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Re: Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Post by erader »

Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot of tracks I'm not interested in. I think it's going to be important that in the future the user is given some more control and selectivity (in addition to some more social components). Good work.

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Re: Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Post by davbai »

erader wrote: post #2

Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot o…

Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good.

While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.

I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).

The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)

Re: Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Post by cubecul »

This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore.

One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?

Re: Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Post by cwal37 »

cubecul wrote: post #4

This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore. One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?

I hear you on feeling like I suck at music discovery. I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Recently one of my brothers launched a sort of music discovery/contest site-thing[1], and while I'm not totally certain about everything they're doing, I have found a lot of interesting tracks looking through their Discover tab. You might find it worth checking out.

[1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/

EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.

Re: Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

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Post by davbai »

cubecul wrote: post #4

This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore. One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?

Yes! I totally agree with your point of SC music discovery. I couldn't find a workflow that fit/worked. Thanks for checking it out.

And in regards to the FB name, there should be a way. If you go under settings (gear icon) in the upper right, it should lead to a drop down where you can go to your settings and change your username. Let me know if this doesn't work for some reason.

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