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Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by louislouis »

lux wrote: post #19
lux wrote: post #17

Search is a bit slow ATM, but selection seems good already. I didn't think I had to click 'Save Playlist' after clicking the pluses, maybe it would be better to auto-save the first one or create a default 'Untitled' and ask you to name it. That was also totally not self-explanatory to a non-registered user, but it did keep the playlist selection after signing up which is good. For the results, it would be cool to see…

One more thing (minor bug report): I selected a song in a 2nd search but it added one from my first search instead when I saved the playlist (I clicked songs from 2 searches for my first playlist).

Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I'll have to look into those bugs you found. I do admit though it's far from perfect atm and there were lots more features I wanted add before launching, but hacker news has taught me to just throw it out there and get a response, so my server is taking a pounding for it I type.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by thorax »

I like it-- just a few more bugs to work out. I did a search (for my wife) of "Tori Amos honey" and it took a solid minute to return anything.

Created an account and the playlist I saved there. Cool stuff.

Heh, nice touch with it saying "Welcome" in the search box when I login.

I would be a bit sad using your site a lot because I use right-click frequently to go back/open-in-new-tab, etc. But your service is cool enough that I'd live with it, surely.

Be careful with the music industry-- you may want to make it clearer where the source is coming from somehow so you don't land yourself in hot water.

The few songs I tried don't work on the iPhone, but I wouldn't have expected them to. If you made an iPhone app like this, I'd definitely buy it, but I imagine a lot are youtube/flash/etc.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by louislouis »

Hexstream wrote: post #26
louislouis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing you have javascript turned off? Otherwise the songs should just play instantly.

Why, oh why does such a site require Javascript?! edit: I'm not against requiring Javascript for those parts of your website that absolutely, positively require it, but everything that can work without JS should gracefully degrade.

I tried it without JS for seo reasons but the background flash player just wouldn't work. I had no other option. Plus jQuery is just too awesome not to use ;) I love it.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by Hexstream »

The Login and Signup... "links" don't even feel like they're clickable because they're not underlined, the cursor changes to text editing instead of a hand, and there's no hover effect at all. Same for the X's to close the login and register popups.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

#36

Post by Hexstream »

louislouis wrote: post #34
Hexstream wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, oh why does such a site require Javascript?! edit: I'm not against requiring Javascript for those parts of your website that absolutely, positively require it, but everything that can work without JS should gracefully degrade.

I tried it without JS for seo reasons but the background flash player just wouldn't work. I had no other option. Plus jQuery is just too awesome not to use ;) I love it.

Isn't jQuery advocating and encouraging "non-intrusive" Javascript and graceful degradation?

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by hugh »

hugh wrote: post #28
ambition wrote: post #18

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It plays music for me.

Oh, I see, I've got it to work now. I was just clicking "add to playlist" and nothing was happening, but if you click on the name of the song it starts playing. In which case, very impressive. I'm particularly impressed that it even finds mashups, and the interface (apart from the difficulty I had with getting it to play) is very nice. I hope you've thought through the legal issues. It could really use a FAQ with ans…

Further comment (because I've continued to play with it, because I think it's awesome):

I've found a couple of tracks where the time (in green on the right as it plays) was given as "NaN:NaN". That's probably not a desired behaviour. (fwiw the track was "Thunderbirds Are Coming Out" by TISM)

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by jimgreer »

hugh wrote: post #28
ambition wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It plays music for me.

Oh, I see, I've got it to work now. I was just clicking "add to playlist" and nothing was happening, but if you click on the name of the song it starts playing. In which case, very impressive. I'm particularly impressed that it even finds mashups, and the interface (apart from the difficulty I had with getting it to play) is very nice. I hope you've thought through the legal issues. It could really use a FAQ with ans…

I missed this too - I think putting a little play arrow next to the "+" is in order.

Other than that, I love it.

Re: Rate/Review my startup - mixturtle

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Post by boucher »

louislouis wrote: post #22
paulgb wrote: post #8

Looks good. I'm confused about how playlists work though - I can add songs to it, but how do I play it or view it? A killer feature that songza is missing is the ability to create and share a playlist without logging in. edit: Another problem: since you are getting the music from remote sources, they can stick in HTTP authentication headers. I got hit with a few of those. Not sure if there is a practical technical so…

The playlist can be viewed with right-click mouse button. Just added that to the site text :)

Even if you read about and then discover this feature, its still pretty inconvenient. I'd suggest making the playlist always visible somewhere on the site, and if you want you could add a hotkey to jump to it.
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