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TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Post by maryrosecook »

Music is a terrible choice for a voting system. The homogeny of opinion for sites like Hacker News or even Digg is way higher than any sector of music listeners, and it's this homogeny that aggregators depend upon to remain useful. To put it another way: without curators, you need to all think alike.

The only way I can see this site working is for rankings to be calculated on a per-user basis, based upon the votes accrued from the user's neighbours. This would go some way towards the mental filter I use for music recommendations from friends: do I trust this person's music taste?

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Post by jacoblyles »

smokinn wrote: post #9
jmtame wrote: post #8

i use thesixtyone when i'm coding, have a lot of trance and techno. feel free to listen to my radio: http://www.thesixtyone.com/jmtame i keeps it fresh!

I've gone through most of their library of classical. Found many good new artists. My favourite find is definitely Edgen: http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/edgen/ It's "epic" music. Reminds me of starcraft terran background music. This is one of my favourite songs: http://www.thesixtyone.com/edgen/song/Kings+and+Kingdoms+-+D...

There needs to be a new name for orchestral music written recently. "Classical" feels wrong for music written in 2009.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Post by JMiao »

maryrosecook wrote: post #21

Music is a terrible choice for a voting system. The homogeny of opinion for sites like Hacker News or even Digg is way higher than any sector of music listeners, and it's this homogeny that aggregators depend upon to remain useful. To put it another way: without curators, you need to all think alike. The only way I can see this site working is for rankings to be calculated on a per-user basis, based upon the votes ac…

"homogeny of opinion" has a lot to do with how you implement your voting system. people may call us "digg for music," but, backend-wise, we're far from digg.

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Post by maryrosecook »

JMiao wrote: post #23
maryrosecook wrote: post #21

Music is a terrible choice for a voting system. The homogeny of opinion for sites like Hacker News or even Digg is way higher than any sector of music listeners, and it's this homogeny that aggregators depend upon to remain useful. To put it another way: without curators, you need to all think alike. The only way I can see this site working is for rankings to be calculated on a per-user basis, based upon the votes ac…

"homogeny of opinion" has a lot to do with how you implement your voting system. people may call us "digg for music," but, backend-wise, we're far from digg.

I'd love to hear more about your voting system...

Re: TheSixtyOne (YC W09) Is Building a Digg For Indie Music

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Post by uuilly »

bluefish wrote: post #20
uuilly wrote: post #19

I just started fooling w/ it and MIA "Paper Planes" is at the top along w/ the FLOBOTS "handlebars." Are either of these guys indy? Could a Rolling Stones song make it on here? If there is no criteria by which you are too big, won't it degenerate into the top 40?

Are you assuming their intention is to keep the sixtyone.com music community closed to major pop artists? Would that be such a bad thing? How would they then handle an indie act that becomes bigger down the road? Who or how would they measure a band's "popularity"? I think it would be great to see major artists branching out and using different distribution mechanisms. Please, leave it up to me to decide what music I…

The title reads "digg for indie music" so yes, I did assume that it was for indie music.
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