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Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by ivank »

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by JMiao »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

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.

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by downer »

ivank wrote: post #4

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu.

I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by downer »

JMiao wrote: post #6
rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

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.

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.)

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by hsiung »

downer wrote: post #7
ivank wrote: post #4

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu. I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...

The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.
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