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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 davbai »

amdixon wrote: post #10

Nice work, how long did it take you to build? Just a note — the pause/play sequence resets the track to the beginning instead of starting it from where you paused (chrome 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit))

Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.

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

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Post by tomphoolery »

cwal37 wrote: post #8
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…

> I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find.

Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to.

Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.

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

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Post by panamafrank »

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?

Go to a record store, pick at random a few from the 'news' section, listen and repeat until you have a few you reckon go together. Then buy them, research the artists involved on Discogs, go see them play. Do this weekly for a few years.

Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physically there, staring at you reminding you that you forked out cash for it, something you come back to again and again forms an authentic experience that can only be replicated in part by digital.

Check out stores like Hardwax, Space Hall, Kristina records, Naminohana, honest jons or whatever is local to you. Look up the event listings in Resident Advisor and grep the artist names. Actually leave the house. :)

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

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Post by erader »

davbai wrote: post #3
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 th…

That's great. Yeah, I just wanted to bring forward that I use a pretty slim criteria for when I'm deciding to unfollow an account on SC. Essentially, if that account is not posting or reposting any tracks that I'm interested in for a while, I unfollow them.

So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!

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

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Post by JonnieCache »

cwal37 wrote: post #8
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…

You can follow the musical graph manually, like people have always done.

Look for artists from the same label as artists you like, look for labels owned by the artists you like, look for artists that have appeared alongside them on compilations, look for compilations/mixes playlisted by them, look for other artists they've collaborated with in the past, look for reviews of records you like and see what other music they compare it to, look up old shows theyve done and see who else performed, look at other shows organized by the promoters of those shows, etc etc etc.

Never be afraid to listen to something just because you like the name or the cover. Also, it pays to check out any record that has the word "afro" in the title and/or a photo of the band standing in front of a spaceship. You can develop your own heuristics :)

http://discogs.com and http://allmusic.com are useful in this regard, as well as good old wikipedia, and reading the notes on the records themselves. And the great thing about spotify et al is that all this can be done in seconds, rather than years.

The big secret to knowing about good music: listening to a lot of shit music until you hit paydirt.

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

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Post by cwal37 »

tomphoolery wrote: post #14
cwal37 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people…

It's probably just how I consider myself in the context of people I know. I love being well versed in something and offering suggestions to people, but I have always been more of a taker when it comes to music. Normally I'm ready with a book/movie/tv/game/whatever recommendation, but I've never been connected to the music world the same way.

It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.

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