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Show HN: Loopy – share and find and music you love

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Post by kylel95 »

Hi,

I created loopy, a website to share and discover music you love.

A former coworker answered an ice breaker question saying his superpower would be to know every language fluently since he travels a lot.

Mine would be to hear every song I would fall in love with.

I realized that I will die without hearing every song that I will fall in love with. So many of my all-time favorite songs I randomly have heard at a club, coffee shop, traveling, walking by a store, etc.

There is a high chance that I would have never heard those songs. Loopy aims to fix this.

You can post your all-time favorite songs. If someone else love this song, there is a chance you will too :).

Here is my profile: https://loopy.fm/kyle

Happy listening :)

- Kyle

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#2

Post by flir »

Is the registration step strictly neccessary? I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm probably not willing to jump through a hoop to do so.

(Or to put it another way: you posted this link three hours ago. How many people registered, and how many people bounced?)

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Post by buholzer »

flir wrote: post #2

Is the registration step strictly neccessary? I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm probably not willing to jump through a hoop to do so. (Or to put it another way: you posted this link three hours ago. How many people registered, and how many people bounced?)

I had the exact same reaction.

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Post by saaaaaam »

I wonder how much that exact context - at a club, coffee shop, travelling, walking by a store - is part of what makes us fall in love with songs. I can remember the exact open air bar in Lisbon that I first heard a favourite song, the exact furniture shop in Berlin where I heard another. One particular song brings back the night time walk round San Francisco where I first heard it, another contours up the lazy summer the poolside lunch on a Greek island where I heard another. There are very few that I remember that don’t have a context of people, time or place.

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Post by john-radio »

flir wrote: post #2

Is the registration step strictly neccessary? I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm probably not willing to jump through a hoop to do so. (Or to put it another way: you posted this link three hours ago. How many people registered, and how many people bounced?)

Does it actually require registration? You made this comment 29 minutes ago, and I'm listening to it without registering right now. (The "Sign up" button is front and center, but you can scroll past it and still see what's playing).

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Post by dewey »

The idea is interesting but I always feel like sharing music like that doesn't work.

It's similar to the #music channels that communities sometimes have. People post their favorite songs, or new songs they just discovered, but as it's a diverse group of people posting them and not a tight-nit group that enjoys similiar music it just becomes a stream of new music and people have no idea if they might enjoy it.

It works between friends when people say "I know you like xyz, you might enjoy that", but outside of that the "sharing" part is more fun than actually trying to go through a list of new songs and picking what to listen.

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Post by flir »

john-radio wrote: post #6
flir wrote: post #2

Is the registration step strictly neccessary? I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm probably not willing to jump through a hoop to do so. (Or to put it another way: you posted this link three hours ago. How many people registered, and how many people bounced?)

Does it actually require registration? You made this comment 29 minutes ago, and I'm listening to it without registering right now. (The "Sign up" button is front and center, but you can scroll past it and still see what's playing).

I scrolled to the bottom to the "Discover new music ->" button and got the signup page there as well. I'm assuming there's something here beyond a carousel? I could be totally misunderstanding, I admit.

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#10

Post by notpushkin »

Neat! This reminds me of This Is My Jam [0] that ran from 2011 to 2015 I think. It was basically the same idea, but you shared the tracks that you liked right now (and you could only share one track a week) which is an interesting twist. I miss it sometimes – maybe Loopy will fill that niche to me :-)

One feature request outright, if I may: Bandcamp has lots of music I love personally, so if Loopy supported it that would be great!

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218152857/https://www.thisi...

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