The only time you're ever allowed to start music on a home page

http://www.thesixtyone.com

by jmtame • 17 years ago

31 16 17 years ago

MySpace does not count!

JMiao3• 17 years ago

yeah, we're experimenting. i understand both of the for/against autoplay arguments. it gets trickier when you realize how you can easily confuse your users a/b testing this type of thing.

baddox• 17 years ago

Don't autoplay, and feature a prominent (read: huge) play button.

jimfl2• 17 years ago

Um. The first tune rocked my socks off, and I'm gonna let the next one play too.

jimfl2• 17 years ago

Also, I love the ability to keep navigating without losing the currently playing track. This seems like a basic, necessary UI trope for any sort of temporal media.

apsurd• 17 years ago

sort of on topic but playlist.com really has an amazing user experience (in the music space). Songs keep playing while browsing, and even if you are not logged in and a song is playing, if you want to add it to your playlist, you can click add, it iwill log you in, add the song, all while the song plays. Great stuff.

(IIRC playlist is a YC alumn)

websevenpointoh• 17 years ago

I've loved thesixtyone since the moment I came across the site. It's exactly what music needs in the digital age. I've been exposed to so much more independent music than would have ever been possible without this site. I completely agree with the previous comments about the interface -- It's fantastic. Everything is very pleasing, responsive and intuitive!

compay• 17 years ago

I think zombo.com is the other time you're allowed to do it.

lucumo4• 17 years ago

It looks like a great concept, but the Flash player keeps stuttering :(

JMiao3• 17 years ago

that's weird. what browser are you using?

lucumo4• 17 years ago

Opera 9, Linux. I use the (experimental) Flash 10 64-bits plugin, so it's probably something to do with that (although I used to have similar problems and crashes to boot with Flash 9 voor 32-bits systems).

I'll try with Firefox just to be sure.

Keyframe• 17 years ago

that feedback type looks alot like facebook logo

DXL• 17 years ago

This is a very dynamic start-up. Two weeks ago they announced they changed their brand from thesixtyone to thesixtynine, because they thought it would be more memorable. (See http://thesixtyone.tumblr.com/post/91817637/reinventing-the-...) It looked kinda odd, having a "69" icon in my bookmarks toolbar.

Anyway, they appeared to have returned to the old brand now. Great site, though :)

lehmannro• 17 years ago

Despite the publishing date being March 31st it seems that was an April Fool's joke. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=541446

The only time you're ever allowed to start music on a home page

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