Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

http://www.thesixtyone.com/

by downer • 19 years ago

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thesixtyone.com

hsiung3• 19 years ago

Hi. Thanks for finding our startup :)

JMiao11• 19 years ago

They're on to us Sam!

ivank• 19 years ago

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

downer2• 19 years ago

Music didn't work for me with Firefox/Flash on Ubuntu.

I'm not sure if that's due to sudden server load...

hsiung3• 19 years ago

The sound doesn't play in Ubuntu for some reason. That's something we're trying to fix. You should be able to watch videos however.

jasonyan2• 19 years ago

I can play songs with Opera 9.5 build 9665 on Windows.

rokhayakebe• 19 years ago

can you give us a short introduction to your startup?

JMiao11• 19 years ago

thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page.

We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.

downer2• 19 years ago

It looks like such a fantastic idea!

Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent.

(Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)

jasonyan2• 19 years ago

Awesome site guys! You also just reminded me about the new ATAL EP that came out yesterday.

JMiao11• 19 years ago

Thanks, Jason. We love Disqus.

dood• 19 years ago

Very cool. Interesting to see social voting explicitly described and implemented as a game, I'm curious how spending/gambling points and leveling works out. Though if it takes off, I imagine you'll have your hands full with gaming/spamming ;)

One thought: the faq interface is cute, but I prefer to read the whole thing at once.

nickb2• 19 years ago

Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?

JMiao11• 19 years ago

Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!

nickb2• 19 years ago

Ah, now I see where I've seen stuff like this! It's similar to iminlikewithyou! ;)

jgamman• 19 years ago

i got a server error

JMiao11• 19 years ago

It's back online. Sorry about that.

Dauntless• 19 years ago

Someone had to do it, thanks guys for implementing it :) . Hope it scales well. Btw, I like how the audio stays on while you change pages, Slick.

The points system is nice also.

eusman• 19 years ago

the feature that the music continues to play in the background it's a really nice one

nikolaj• 19 years ago

Awesome. Very impressive, great concept, and glad to see more people using django (i use it for almost every site).

ian• 19 years ago

The name is cool, the UI is tight and I just found a cool new band. Great work.

JMiao11• 19 years ago

Thanks, Ian. We do it for the people, and it's incredibly rewarding when I get to read comments like yours.

oditogre2• 19 years ago

>You can purchase DRM-free songs by clicking "buy" on select players.

Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'players' - like, WinAmp / WMP / etc. or like other members of the site? I use Amazon's music store, so that's kind of interesting to me.

\*Edit: I intermittently get "t61.flashplayer.init is not a function" error. It prevents me from listening to music. Any idea on what to do with that?

JMiao11• 19 years ago

"Player" is in reference to the individual song players on the page -- sorry for the confusion! Just click "buy" on the song you like, and you'll be able to buy it from Amazon MP3...aside from the mandatory client (although it has a purpose), I'm also a fan of the Amazon music store.

We'll look into the issue you reported (thanks). What browser/OS are you using?

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oditogre2• 19 years ago

FF 2.0.0.10 and IE 7 (fully patched) both gave the error on a fully patched WinXP SP2 system, so I'm guessing it's a flash problem. I'm not at work atm so I can't check the specifics on the flash being used there, but it's whatever's the latest because I had to download it to use your site. :)

tel• 19 years ago

The presentation is incredible. Reminiscent of iminlikewithyou without the total Flex overhaul. I also like the little artist details that pop up while you listen.

There's a styling "error" in Safari 3.0 Mac: the rounded corner sprite is PNG which displays at slightly different color temperatures on different browsers. It's causing all of your rounded boxes to get dark stripes where it doesn't match the CSS background. Just use GIF.

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