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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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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 physicall…

This is how it's done :)

Also, have you actually gone into record stores and previewed records before buying them? I may purchase this record player[1] as a way to check out records at the store, but I wasn't sure if this was a thing store owners typically allow. Any insight?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Vestax-VES-HANDYTRAXUSBBLK-Handy-Trax-...

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

#24
Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wrt taste:(time for discovery) is Digitially Imported Preimum that works perfectly with Clementine (or any player for that matter).

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

#26
Hey this is rad, I LOVE the UI and love that I have a source dedicated to EDM without having to sift through other services.

The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively.

Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)

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

#28
post #20

This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)

I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.

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

#29
post #25

How's this different than the drop? Is this just a ripoff (name and all)?

thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.
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