Show HN: Ultimate mashup Web-based music player (Last.FM API)

by sprockettyz • 12 years ago

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sprockettyz4• 12 years ago

About the web-app: - Fast & free. Possibly one of the fastest ways to play music on your desktop.

- Source agnostic (currently Youtube powered, but the eventual idea is that your playlists are agnostic of where the music comes from.The app will find a way to play it eg. soundcloud/youtube/whatever paid streaming service you use)

- LOTS of music discovery options. Built from the ground up so you don't need to have to spend too much time building your own playlist

- May even be a viable replacement for whatever you use to listen to music on your desktop

Ongoing work being done: - Have better curated playlists

- Better mobile experience (responsive / eventually a standalone app)

- Enable Last.FM scrobbling

Appreciate ANY feedback / comments / complaints :)

Thanks so much.

wuliwong2• 12 years ago

Isn't it powered by last.fm? Was wondering why you said "youtube powered." Also, when you do start to support youtube, have you thought about how to deal with search? At least with last.fm or soundcloud you know that you are dealing with 99% music. But youtube is all over the map. Anyway to filter only music results? This thing has often been a roadblock in my thinking when trying to include results in my apps from youtube and the like.

Anyway, its really cool. I'm actually building a music site which will only have a rudimentary player at first, its mostly focused on discussion, discovery and voting. Not sure what your end goal is but maybe we started at different places but are pointing to the same end state?

kingnight• 12 years ago

Well I got up and running immediately with a random song that popped in my head.

Impressed so far.

What does "full functionality" include?

Unfortunately the artist I picked suffers from sharing the same name as another — the last.fm scraper doesn't provide a way for me to pick which it is.

sprockettyz4• 12 years ago

Hi Kingnight,

Firstly, thanks for trying the app :)

Which artist were you trying to search for? I'll try to see if there's a way to get access to that particular artist's page.

Regarding search...

Currently is a "general" search. Meaning, it will search both song titles AND artist names.

Howeever, the LastFM API also has different types of search eg. search artist names ONLY, search song titles ONLY etc. This might solve the problem (but also maybe not). I will incorporate a more advanced search once I think of an elegant way of layering into the interface.

Another alternative is to have also use another music database (eg. musicbrainz) which might have better artist information.

Any suggestions for improvement / stuff you like / don't like, I'd be delighted to hear.

Thanks once again! Sprockettyz

PS: Full functionality mainly means ability to save / share playlists, last.fm scrobbling (upcoming release), as well as early access to experimental functionality (one of which is "radio" feature, which I'm quite excited about, because it really works quite well.).

smartera• 12 years ago

This is really great.. Very well thought of UI (love that the left playlist pan is always on even through account registration).

One thing I'd like to see is the ability to add single (or multiple) track(s) from the playlist that you created for me to my own curated list (without having to add the whole list).

sprockettyz4• 12 years ago

This is indeed a very useful suggestion!

I will build this into the next release...

Thanks so much for the feedback :)

wuliwong2• 12 years ago

Hey, this is great. It is a good example of design not just being pretty buttons. :)

sprockettyz4• 12 years ago

Thanks Wuliwong! Appreciate the feedback...

excellentpants• 12 years ago

Very cool!

One suggestion: Although it's an extra click, maybe try out a "search artist only"/"search song only"/etc... approach? I was searching for the band "everything everything," which only turned-up results with songs with the word "everything" in it. That or tweak your results ranking mechanism to favor exact matches?

Keep up the great work.

Show HN: Ultimate mashup Web-based music player (Last.FM API)

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