Tunes.io - simple, awesome daily playlist of new indie tracks

http://www.tunes.io/?ref=hn

by jamesgagan • 14 years ago

47 41 14 years ago

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qwerty007• 14 years ago

Why is there 'Blur - Song 2'? http://www.freewebs.com/ste_thompson/Blur%20-%20Song%202.mp3

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

still tweaking the web crawl a bit - the occasional older song shows up now and then.

fumar2• 14 years ago

Would it be crazy if you had guest days? Perhaps a prominent person would curate a playlist. It would be a cool way to drive traffic.

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

this was a weekend project - trying to keep it simple but any feedback is appreciated.

songrabbit• 14 years ago

It would be neat if there were a way to save songs for later consumption. As a spotify user, I would love to be able to "star" it so it saves to my account, but I'm not sure if that is possible on the web

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

thought about that - wanted to keep it dead simple, but i might add it.

pserwylo• 14 years ago

Good work mate. Nice and simple.

One suggestion is to make it easier to look up the artists/songs that you enjoy. I find it hard to select the text of the artist/song because the anchor tag fills the entire width of the screen. Perhaps a nice way to approach it might be a "Info" link somewhere, maybe just when the song is playing, which just sends the query to Google or something.

Later on, you could hook it up to some other sort of service which provides better info.

Keep up the good work.

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

just might do it - thanks for the suggestion!

ricardobeat• 14 years ago

Were you inspired by mixest.com that appeared here last week?

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

no - but i do like mixest. this was an idea i've had kicking around for awhile.

fascinated2• 14 years ago

On what basis is something "awesome"?

Are the tracks handpicked? If not, what is the overall method?

Why is there no attribution if the tracks are clearly from websites that have recommended the music?

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

this isn't the hype machine - its just a very simple way to enjoy some new music with no bells and whistles or distractions.

mattdennewitz• 14 years ago

one important part of discovering new music is discovering new trusted sources. that'll build trust between you app and your users, and i'm sure the folks whose keen insights you're scraping would appreciate it.

fascinated2• 14 years ago

Sure, but how is the music picked?

Attribution is not a distraction.

tkahn6• 14 years ago

See also: http://console.fm if you're into EDM.

alexkiwi• 14 years ago

Thanks :)

batiudrami2• 14 years ago

Not necessarily 'indie' music (by label independence or genre), but the songs I know on it are fairly good, so I assume the rest are too.

At least it isn't 95% trash like Hype Machine.

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

thanks!

i purposefully keep the playlists small and vet each track to keep the quality high. this is the listening experience i want for myself.

hype machine is more of a firehose which makes it a bit harder to find the gems.

batiudrami2• 14 years ago

That seems like a lot of work for you - finding twenty tracks each day good enough to put on a playlist. I could probably do it comfortably once a week, but every day would be a struggle.

I would maybe consider a .fm TLD? For some reason I naturally associate .fm with music and .io with more tech/HN-oriented stuff.

medell• 14 years ago

The Tallest Man on Earth & Cat Power! Like it already :)

Xcelerate2• 14 years ago

Seeing "tunes.io" reminds me -- I'll share something cool with you all. I was using the .io domain name search tool that I made (http://iodomains.nickmcnutt.com) and I noticed that songs.io has not been taken yet! Can you believe it?

We'll see how long it takes for someone to grab it now ;)

EDIT: Holy cow that was fast! Less than 4 minutes!

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

woot! guess i have a name for next weekends project now ;)

Xcelerate2• 14 years ago

You got it? Good luck with it!

(I've noticed domain-squatters are starting to grab the good .io names so I figured someone on HN would do something more productive with it!)

wamatt• 14 years ago

Very cool James, I usually use Spotify indie lists, but surprisingly this has a found a few cool tracks I hadn't discovered yet.

If you don't mind sharing, how does the playlist selection algorithm work?

chrischen• 14 years ago

Have you ever used a playlist sharing site like 8tracks or songza.com?

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

i used to run a site called skreemr.com, and our API helped power sites like songza (long before it was a hit ios app), playlist.com and even short-lived Y-combinator graduate mixwit.com

justanotheratom• 14 years ago

Stupid question - How do I pause it?

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

just click on the song that's playing. i plan to add keyboard controls at some point.

dbalatero• 14 years ago

Could I submit my band's tracks to you via email or something?

jamesgagan15• 14 years ago

if they are actually good, shoot me an email at info at everlook dot ca

beatpanda• 14 years ago

Dooooooooope. On Android the songs keep playing if the browser isn't active - how'd you do that?

donebizkit2• 14 years ago

Today's playlist was great. I'll be checking this a lot.

donebizkit2• 14 years ago

I've listened to all 4 lists and the quality is good. Can you speak a bit about the algorithm behind this? I noticed that even though the tracks are different and clearly from different artists they still fall under a new-age-y genre. Is that the nature of the source, algorithm, or personal preference?

chetan51• 14 years ago

A download button on each song would be awesome!

Tunes.io - simple, awesome daily playlist of new indie tracks

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