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Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by dandelany »

draggnar wrote: post #57
fumar wrote: post #6

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"Too much work," is correct. I used turntable for about a month. It was fun. Then it became tedious. After reading this article, I logged on. It has changed. I suppose the users are less diverse now. It is hard to quantify. When it first started the rooms were very diverse. Today(or right now), it looks like dubstep is the main genre of music. The music snobs have left.

I remember at first there were these Japanese rooms with awesome J-Pop. It was amazing, there was such an amazing energy around turntable - then users outside the US were blocked because of licensing.

I, too, lament the loss of our international users. We're working hard to allow access from outside the US, but it's a slow process. That said, there is still an active J-pop room on TT, although it's not as popular as it once was: http://turntable.fm/jpop_jgame_anime_

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by rdl »

peterwwillis wrote: post #25

Articles like this make me glad I don't have a startup so I don't have to go to SXSW. A lot of these 'ideas' seem cute or quirky at first but then I wonder what kind of people would need to see someone else's mouse cursor or want to get messages from strangers, or leave sad lonely notes at random places to people they'll never meet. Also, a reflection: "I had convinced myself that start-ups are a young person's game,…

I guarantee you that if you do an enterprise technology (or even a "hard tech" startup of any kind, or infrastructure, or most kinds of b2b), your investors will not ask you to go to SXSW.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by rdl »

guynamedloren wrote: post #33
companyhen wrote: post #2

I started using http://plug.dj the past few weeks and I'm liking it much more than turntable. For one, it's international and you can stream/watch YouTube videos and play SoundCloud in the room. There's also an option to import your Turntable playlist.

Brilliant. One of those ideas that seems so obvious. As crazy as it sounds, I'm hard pressed to believe that there is a better music source than Youtube. Spotify, pandora, and soundcloud are shit in comparison. Youtube has EVERYTHING - I can get any song I want (popular or not) whenever I want it, for free. The reason I love turntable is that there's constantly new music, and it's curated for me. I mostly absorb, but…

When/why did youtube become such a good music service, vs. the other services? A lot of people seem to be saying this.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by guynamedloren »

rdl wrote: post #74
guynamedloren wrote: post #33

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Brilliant. One of those ideas that seems so obvious. As crazy as it sounds, I'm hard pressed to believe that there is a better music source than Youtube. Spotify, pandora, and soundcloud are shit in comparison. Youtube has EVERYTHING - I can get any song I want (popular or not) whenever I want it, for free. The reason I love turntable is that there's constantly new music, and it's curated for me. I mostly absorb, but…

When/why did youtube become such a good music service, vs. the other services? A lot of people seem to be saying this.

Sheer quantity of music. I have yet to see another music service come close in content to youtube. Spotify is okay, but there's a lot they don't have. And their commercials are annoying as hell. Pandora is great, but their model doesn't allow for selecting specific songs. Soundcloud is awesome for original and underground tunes, but not mainstream and classic songs.

Youtube has (almost) everything.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by dandelany »

goo wrote: post #72

Screw them for publishing stuff to my facebook feed, and not allowing me to listen otherwise. It's terrible, but I still but up for it for some unknown reason. I have no sympathy.

Publishing to your Facebook feed can be turned off by going to the lobby page > Settings > Contact Settings. This has been the case from the first day we published FB feed stuff, and we tried to inform users about it with a yellow banner at the top of the lobby page.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by goo »

dandelany wrote: post #76
goo wrote: post #72

Screw them for publishing stuff to my facebook feed, and not allowing me to listen otherwise. It's terrible, but I still but up for it for some unknown reason. I have no sympathy.

Publishing to your Facebook feed can be turned off by going to the lobby page > Settings > Contact Settings. This has been the case from the first day we published FB feed stuff, and we tried to inform users about it with a yellow banner at the top of the lobby page.

Thank you, this should be opt-in, not opt out.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by mnicole »

dandelany wrote: post #69
nestlequ1k wrote: post #38

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I had the exact same experience. Moderators would boot/ban you if you downvote songs, or if you criticize anything ever. I havent touched turntable in months. Simple solution. Moderators should be able to mute users. But not kick them from the channel. What's the point of kicking if we're just here to listen to music? If they fix this, I think I'd go back.

TT developer here. Any user can "mute" any other user - just go to Settings > Ignored Users and add their username to your ignored list. Hope to see you back on the site soon!

No, what he's saying is that mods need to only be able to mute users, not kick them. Kicking someone out of the room they want to be in only hurts your service -- not the room -- because they won't have any interest in visiting the other rooms and they're not going to bother going back into a room they've been kicked out of. There is truly no reason anyone should be kicked. It leaves a sour taste in the user's mouth, especially if -- like those of us posting here -- it was for no other reason than the mod's ability to do so.

Anyone in the room to troll or flood (by the way, your 'flood' methodology sucks - I type fast, I shouldn't be reprimanded for it) will be put off of the room and move on to the next, at which point, a certain amount of mutes in a certain amount of time should set a flag that puts a global mute on that person for a set amount of time.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by jovany »

stevensacks wrote: post #39
reustle wrote: post #30

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Are you behind www.Plug.dj

No, but I am. I'm Steven Sacks, the CEO and founder of http://plug.dj . plug.dj is not just music, it's videos, too. Everything comes from YouTube and SoundCloud so licensing is already taken care of. We love our users. Building a community is everything we are about. We listen and we care. We are involved. plug.dj is international, and not just in name. We have localized the site into 8 languages so far and our chat…

I agree with Steven 100%. I've been an avid user of plug.dj for a little over a month now and I'm addicted. I love the fact that international users are welcome (I'm from Belize!), and users who don't speak English are catered to with real-time translations. I've managed to discover international artists and met some nice music-lovers worldwide. I also love the fact that the people behind the site are so nice and eager to help as well as listen to suggestions.

Re: Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

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Post by kendall_ »

thethimble wrote: post #22

I was a big turntable user last summer. I was pretty disappointed by their interface (fixed width, terrible search, etc.). So disappointed that I built my own clone with a friend. I recently revisited the site - almost nothing has changed. There is so much potential to add more features and polish the interface. I think this might have something to do with their user decline. They had the initial hype wave but failed…

If you're looking for a site that has a great interface I'd try http://www.plug.dj/. They update the site very often and have a bunch of cool features that you probably won't find anywhere else. Playlists, song and video imports from SoundCloud and Youtube, unique avatars, room customization options, etc. It's also available internationally and provides real-time chat translation so you can interact with users from different countries without there being a huge language barrier.
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