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Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

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Re: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

#11

Post by techmm »

nodrama wrote: post #8
swayfm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't make me connect my facebook in order to play music. http://cl.ly/0N1t3A3d013I061v2829 Don't care that it's only 30 seconds away, I don't want to give you my data before hearing some music and deciding whether or not it's worth it. Also, seeing "30 seconds" in this interrupting popup (even before reading it) makes me think that I'll only get 30 second previews of the music. That's as far as I got, since I can't…

Music site. No music.

Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched. Watch a band like Radiohead or NIN give 'em a wink and it will blow up like stove top jiffy pop.

Also, my 2c on the site design: Its trendy and neat, but off-white, sans-serif font on a black background makes for a hard read. Otherwise I like it. Minimalism, hoo-rah.

I love the concept. I hope it takes off like crazy! And I think it will.

Re: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

#13

Post by omrim »

techmm wrote: post #11
nodrama wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music site. No music.

Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched. Watch a band like Radiohead or NIN give 'em a wink and it will blow up like stove top jiffy pop. Also, my 2c on the site design: Its trendy and neat, but off-white, sans-serif font on a black background makes for a hard read. Otherwise I like it. Minimalism, hoo-rah. I love the concept. I hope it tak…

Haha thank you! We've been busting our ass off to do something we love.

Noting the off-white font comment!

-OM

Re: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

#14

Post by nodrama »

techmm wrote: post #11
nodrama wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Music site. No music.

Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched. Watch a band like Radiohead or NIN give 'em a wink and it will blow up like stove top jiffy pop. Also, my 2c on the site design: Its trendy and neat, but off-white, sans-serif font on a black background makes for a hard read. Otherwise I like it. Minimalism, hoo-rah. I love the concept. I hope it tak…

"Aw, c'mon. They probably worked their ass off to get those artists to sign up with them before the site even launched."

That's right. And precisely because they worked very hard for that, I added my comment to let them know they are now throwing away most of that effort because they hide the music behind some login. I would put the music out there and annoy people with the login or at least, learn from the drug dealers: first time it's free (more like first 10 times it's free).

Re: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

#15

Post by coroxout »

I like the design but the grey font is a bit hard to read against a black background for me.

The fading coloured squares which fill space look pretty but they were confusing to me - are these links to more pages of results? Mousing over them in Chrome changes my mouse pointer as if they were links, so it took me a few clicks to decide they don't do anything. I like how they look so I'm not necessarily saying get rid of them; maybe just put some text over the top making it clear that the user has seen all the results.

Seconding other people's comments about Facebook and Twitter integration.

Finally, I see you've recorded the location of artists, and I'd love to see a browse by location to see if there are any local-to-me acts on here.

Good luck with the site!

Re: Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA

#17

Post by omrim »

coroxout wrote: post #15

I like the design but the grey font is a bit hard to read against a black background for me. The fading coloured squares which fill space look pretty but they were confusing to me - are these links to more pages of results? Mousing over them in Chrome changes my mouse pointer as if they were links, so it took me a few clicks to decide they don't do anything. I like how they look so I'm not necessarily saying get rid…

Love the browse by location idea! Taking note :)
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