My Latest Project - Share Music Instantly

http://instant.fm

by feross • 15 years ago

25 32 15 years ago

instant.fm

yakto• 15 years ago

Wow - really nice! Love the design.

feross13• 15 years ago

Thanks. So glad to hear that people appreciate the design.

rbreve2• 15 years ago

This is amazing the UI is really nice and intuitive. I did a dubstep playlist http://instant.fm/p/5r . It's interesting to notice that everything is on youtube now.

ericflo• 15 years ago

Hmm, it's showing up as a blank playlist for me.

rbreve2• 15 years ago

strange, a bug maybe?

feross13• 15 years ago

Yes, almost every song is on YouTube these days. :)

gobongo• 15 years ago

You're gonna get so sued for this.

jarin2• 15 years ago

It's just YouTube playlists, how is that illegal?

Edit: all of my 4- and 5-star rated songs in iTunes: http://instant.fm/p/7d

feross13• 15 years ago

Really cool.

rocktronica• 15 years ago

Maybe, but not successfully. Important distinction.

feross13• 15 years ago

We're just playing YouTube videos. YouTube is hosting all the content.

ender7• 15 years ago

Really amazing site! Finally a way to take advantage of the "I listen to all my music on YouTube" behavior that's becoming so common.

One comment: it's too difficult to create new playlists. The front-page suggested lists is great, but I don't think you want to require people to open up iTunes or some other player and then figure out how to export a playlist to text format (most of your users, I imagine, will have no idea how to do this).

You could supply a guide on how to do this for various popular media players, but far easier would be to do a live search on a text field and let people click on the song they want to add from the search results.

Considering your average visitor is probably "someone who tends to listen to their music on YouTube", you've got to make the experience extremely low-friction, or they're just going to go back to watching stuff on YouTube.

feross13• 15 years ago

Yeah, we're working on simplifying the new playlist creation process. Thanks for the nice comments.

moondowner• 15 years ago

Behaves very strange in Opera, but I guess it's a very cool project.

The problem is: when a playlist is chosen it doesn't load, the page refreshes all the time.

fname• 15 years ago

+1, same issue in FF3.5 and IE9 (works in FF4).

feross13• 15 years ago

Fixed this now.

mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

Nice job.

http://instant.fm/p/5l

I don't see a way to rename a playlist. Am I missing something?

jarin2• 15 years ago

There's an edit link next to the playlist name.

feross13• 15 years ago

Awesome playlist! Hope you were able to figure out how to rename. The other commenter is correct - click the edit link next to the title.

mgkimsal2• 15 years ago

One might also consider tweaking this to allow for stringing together of longer video lectures/debates on various topics.

feross13• 15 years ago

I've definitely thought about that.

famousactress2• 15 years ago

I've definitely wanted exactly this in the past. Only thing that stopped me from building it was the law.

feross13• 15 years ago

We're just playing YouTube videos. Nothing against the law about that.

famousactress2• 15 years ago

Oh man. I just noticed this in my comments archive. I'm a dick. I wasn't paying enough attention to the implementation. Apologies.

That said, I still suspect the law might impact the future of your product since I assume many of the songs in the videos that you're listing have been uploaded illegally.. however, I do love the idea and hope it works out..

nico• 15 years ago

Check out voxound.com

Edit: it appears to be down

tgandrews• 15 years ago

Nice use of http://html5boilerplate.com/

Your humans.txt and favicon are still the default though.

feross13• 15 years ago

Haha, you noticed! Just fixed that!

stagas• 15 years ago

At last, a music service that actually cares about UX. It's great, the animations are a bit choppy on my machine but other than that everything is great, very intuitive interface. Where are you getting artist info from? Again, congrats.

feross13• 15 years ago

So glad that someone appreciates all the time we spent on UX. We're still tweaking things and trying to make it even better. We're getting most of the music data from Last.fm's excellent API.

lostbit• 15 years ago

Nice to listen to something new. I could not drecrease the video to something below 720p. Is this somehow fixed or a bug?

feross13• 15 years ago

Yeah, this is a known bug. We're going to fix it soon.

My Latest Project - Share Music Instantly

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