Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this. • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by kreutz » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:34 PM UTC

zennit wrote: post #29

love the site design, can I ask what you are using to build the front/backend? Love the colours and the gradient used in the background, how is this generated? Thanks

Sure thing man! Frontend is all Backbone.js hooked up to a Rails API for the backend. We use MongoDB with Mongoid and LESS for CSS with the old bootstrap.less (which later became Twitter Bootstrap). As for the background I could of used a gradient but its just an image made with photoshop.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by dguaraglia » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:34 PM UTC

kreutz wrote: post #27

LeandroLovisolo wrote: post #24

I absolutely love this. Couple of things: - It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. - Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page.

| It would be nice to be able to skip to an arbitrary part of the mix. This is in the works. Just wanted to get the bare minimum out the door. | Sound didn't work for me until I reloaded the page. Looking into this right now. Thanks for the feedback:)

Yep, skipping the - sometimes longish - intro talks would be a plus.

That said... awesome! Already sharing stuff on my Facebook :)

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by prmr » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:37 PM UTC

Love it. Netsky's Essential Mix is amazing to listen to while programming: http://mixture.fm/search/netsky :)

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by omarish » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:53 PM UTC

Wow. Was about to go find the Nero Essential Mix and write a new feature, but this site takes care of the first part for me :). Great work!

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by Eduard » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

How can I upload my own mixes?

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by peterwwillis » Thu, May 10, 2012, 10:56 PM UTC

prmr wrote: post #33

Love it. Netsky's Essential Mix is amazing to listen to while programming: http://mixture.fm/search/netsky :)

Pandora plays the crap out of Netsky if you make a station of Ed Rush (and that's a good thing!). I actually like the occasional break in play from Pandora as it reminds me to get up and walk around a bit.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by gravitronic » Thu, May 10, 2012, 11:03 PM UTC

Love it, and loving your selection I'm seeing in there.

You might like the "mix youtube music videos" website I made. You can load any youtube user's video playlists as "crates" and then mix from track to track:

http://burnsmod.com/fun/mixtube/mixtube.html

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by skeletonjelly » Thu, May 10, 2012, 11:12 PM UTC

labaraka wrote: post #9

This is fantastic. I love the EM's but I hate the BBC player so I am always trying to find the mixes on SoundCloud or the other shady download sites. Now they are all neatly packaged in one place. Well done, dude!

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix

has a massive collection going back many years available in FLAC too.

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by kreek » Thu, May 10, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

Wow, looks (and sounds) great, listening to the Four Tet one as we speak :) It looks like all the sounds are hosted on SoundCloud, is this in your own pro+ account? I'm guessing this was the most economical way to host the files?

Re: Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

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Post by noinput » Thu, May 10, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

You sir, are my new hero. Fantastic work. One added bonus here would be to include the track-list for each one. A simple contribution feature here I think would be a big hit so others can do the work to find them.

For example, a few results down on: http://track-list.com/page/2/?s=deadmau5 will give the track-list for item #3 in your list.