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Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by justindocanto »

hazelcough wrote: post #7
hardik988 wrote: post #6

I'm loving every single song it's selecting for me. Is there a way I can login and save my loved songs (apart from scrobbling) ? So I liked a song, then I clicked scrobble , it redirected to last.fm - fine, but when it returned to mixest, it started playing another song, and also lost all my previously loved songs :(

Ah, that's because www.mixest.com and mixest.com are technically different domains :(. I'll get that fixed up, but your loved songs should appear on one of the two domains.

im going to catch shit for choosing www over no-www, but if you want to make it so everybody is funneled to ONE domain (ie. www.mixest.com) put this in your htaccess and your problem will be solved.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mixest.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mixest.com/$1 [R=301,L]

... just without the double spacing. HN was turning it into one line if I didn't double space.

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by jordn »

chime wrote: post #9

Very good execution and a good choice for the domain name. The design (green/white/red/hearts) reminds me of http://hypem.com/ - you should check it out if you haven't. It's got a similar theme (crawl indie blogs for music) and has a pretty big following.

This looks really great.

The big problem with hypem I've found is that the popular tracks is completely under crowd control and wheres I used to use the service to find music that aligned well with my tastes (I discovered Phoenix and some incredible dance remixes of music I love through the service for example), now that the site's got more popular the music has following the American trend of Skrillex like 'dubstep' that not even the 'no remixes' setting can remove for me.

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by keyle »

hazelcough wrote: post #2

Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…

Flat out the best thing that made it to HN for, quite a while. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by bryn »

hazelcough wrote: post #2

Mixest was a project I built this summer because Pandora is too mainstream and Spotify isn't random enough. I wrote a scraper and crawler in node.js that constantly searches for new blogs and adds new music to the radio. Instead of an account system, I used HTML5 local storage to keep track of favorite songs and recently played songs. You may have seen Mixest on HN 3 years ago, back when it was written in PHP. Its da…

Wow, been listening for a couple hours now. nthing the call for a blog post!

Re: Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music

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Post by tbjohns »

Bookmarked it and shared with a few friends. Just don't put too many ads on there, and I'll probably be coming back a few times.

Maybe you can make the ads themselves entertaining by scraping the web for the most unusual of those as well...

Anyway, nice work!

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