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DiscoverTracks – Musicians you love listen to what you like
- PaulHoule 12y agoI'd be skeptical. Often musicians left to make the music they want to make make stuff nobody cares about. I think of the Gerry Rafferty album City to City which is all hee haw music that sounds the same except for the hit tracks.
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- thisjepisje 12y agoI don't get it. What does it do?
- xeroxmalf 12y agoFrom the site: "Musicians you love listen to what you like" ... "Their favourite tracks become your personal radio..."
- thisjepisje 12y agoOh I get it, it makes a playlist out of the music that artists you liked have liked.
- ocolot 12y agolet me know if you find something else unclear ;)
- boyaka 12y agoWhy not just go to soundcloud.com/artist/likes and click play? That already makes a playlist of their likes...
- thisjepisje 12y agoThat doesn't include multiple artists at the same time, right?
- HNJohnC 12y agoPlease consider linking to something informative, not just a page with a huge picture where they apparently spent more time on the 3d effect than the actual usability of the site, you can't click on anything, it's just....weird.
- return0 12y agoWhat 3d effect?
- ryannevius 12y agoI think he's referring to the parallax banner...which probably didn't take much time at all to implement, but is arguably distracting and unnecessary.
- smrtinsert 12y agoand sucks. since sucks is a word thats apparently free to use anywhere now.
- ocolot 12y agowell... 3 mins ;) ... ok, I could remove it!
- charlespwd 12y agoI love it! Thanks for this.
- coreymaass 12y agoReally cool idea. I've been digging around soundcloud a lot lately, and it's as challenging as any other site to find good stuff. My immediate feedback is most musicians like their own productions the most. So I keep getting "artist123 likes this song by artist123". Any way to filter out themselves?
- ocolot 12y agoGood point. I didn't thought of it because I never thought of liking my own music. I will filter them out in the next release.
- golergka 12y agoHey, that's great! ...and the first track is an hour-long Boiler Room set. May be you can implemented some kind of filtering feature?
- ocolot 12y agoAh cool, Boiler Room sets are usually great, to my taste! Would you be willing to filter by max duration, tracks vs mixes, or something else?
- golergka 12y agoBoiler Room is great indeed, but listening to mixes is radically different experience from listening to random tracks. Overall, I'd expect all the filers that Soundcloud has on it's search interface to be there, but duration filter is a must
- acconrad 12y agoI'm getting a 500 error on Chrome 36 from api.soundcloud.com, are you sure you haven't hit a rate limit on this?
- ocolot 12y agoI don't catch the error in Rollbar so I believe this would happen within the soundcloud player iframe... :-/ I will investigate, thx for noticing Edit: Soundcloud quota are not explicit unfortunately.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoI think this is a really neat idea. I actually know one artist (diplo I think) has started a second SC account just for retweeting stuff he recommends. I have a couple of accounts and am quite particular about the music I favourite (has to be stuff that my followers would also like e.g. No rock music on my EDM account and vice versa). I'm not sure everyone is like this though so it might be difficult to find accounts of artists who favourite music their fans would also like. It leaves an opportunity for you to do some sort of curation of artists with a good history of favouriting. Edit: Is the site open source?
- ocolot 12y agoThat's a great case. I believe we should be careful with historical biais, because some it could lead to focussing results on a particular music style. In my case fore example, I listen to electonic, jazz and classical music depending on the mood of the week... It is not open source, but you may be willing to give a hand ;)
- mxfh 12y agoYes it's Diplo. Although souncloud.com/stream page and reposts[1] work quite good for my needs already. Diplo has second account for reposts[2][3] only. I personally prefer a curated approach, like blip.fm[4] offered/offers, to any automated methods so far. [1]http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/527370-what-are-reposts- http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/527370-w... [2]https://soundcloud.com/diploapproved https://soundcloud.com/diploapproved [3]http://doandroidsdance.com/news/diplo-approved-soundcloud/ http://doandroidsdance.com/news/diplo-approved-soundcloud/ [4]http://blip.fm/all?p=1 http://blip.fm/all?p=1 Is this site more than a zombie? Still no soundcloud integration in sight.
- golergka 12y agoAlso, may be it would be a good idea to pre-load next track? Right now skipping works reallllly slow
- ocolot 12y agoit's now planned for next release! thx and let me know if you have other improvements ideas
- mychaelangelo 12y agoI like the idea of it. In fact, as an ex-musician myself i have a few ideas of building something using the Soundcloud API. More work definitely needs to be done in the 'music discovery' space and I am glad you've done something with it :)
- ocolot 12y agoCool! This is just the start, so I'd be glad to discuss more about it ;) (twitter: ocolot)
- angusb 12y agoDid anyone else find "Musicians you love listen to what you like" pretty difficult to digest? There's probably a more user friendly way to say that. Cool idea though.
- superqd 12y agoYeah, I did. I had to re-read it 2 or 3 times.
- ocolot 12y agoWould something like "Listen to the favorite tracks of the musicians you love" be better?
- hansy 12y agoBeginning with an action verb is already a better start. Another possible way to reword could be, "Listen to tracks your favorite musicians love." Side note: what's up with the background moving along with mouse cursor? It was a little distracting at first, but I'm guessing the purpose is to make the site feel like you're browsing through a record store?
- ocolot 12y agoyep, that's precisely the idea! I think I'll remove the parallax to reduce potential distractions. thx for your tagline proposal, I think it is the best up to now!
- pronoiac 12y ago"Listen to your favorite bands' favorite songs"
- ocolot 12y agohey hansy, I just pushed you tagline live, thx for the idea!
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- brianwhitman 12y agoI like this concept, but you need some sort of automated filtering. My first track (because hypem liked it) is a cat purring. Plug but it's a useful one: run the tracks through the SCAnalyzer http://labs.echonest.com/SCAnalyzer/index.html http://labs.echonest.com/SCAnalyzer/index.html and filter for speechiness and duration. If you get a SO ID, you'll also know the artist via fingerprinting and you can do more filtering at that level.
- ocolot 12y agoThis is a pretty cool idea! I will see what I can get out of it, thx!
- ctruelson 12y agoAwesome. Already found a bunch of cool tracks. Follow lobsterdust for some cool mashups.
- ocolot 12y agoaha! thx for the advertising ;) check soundcloud.com/olivier-colot/television-rules-the-nation-daft-punk-remix for a cool remix ;)
- kpennell 12y agoOk idea, but didn't really work for me. I follow quite a few artists on soundcloud. I have several hundred likes. Most of the time, I'm not into the music the artists I follow like. It's simply too all over the place. I clicked next 6 or so times but I didn't like any of the songs given to me. I made a slightly different take on this: http://likesorter.herokuapp.com/# http://likesorter.herokuapp.com/# It shows me in a table my likes and then allows me to see (in table form) the likes of artists I follow. Being able to sort my tags, plays, and song likes, I get more signals on whether I might actually like the song. Music discovery is a really tricky problem. It takes roughly a minute each song to know whether I like a song or not. There's almost too many microgenres to keep track of (I like tech house but not trap house). My tastes are eclectic: you'll find cheesy songs right next to the hippest coolest disco funk track. The artists I follow probably have similarly eclectic tastes.
- ocolot 12y agosorry you didn't like what your favorite artists like. interesting "human algorithm" approach, but I believe machines can help sorting the recommendations with a better bird eye view ;) btw, I am currently working on an algorithmic improvement to discriminate mainstream tracks from alternative tracks if your interested into it
- kpennell 12y agoplease share @kyleapennell. Thanks for the response btw.
- prayerslayer 12y agoNice work, I did pretty much the same thing about one and a half years back [1]. Didn't know it's still running [2], haha. I built it because I liked Favematic [3], but thought it didn't have enough "radio" like functionality. I like your visual design better though, it's way cleaner. Also the track is better presented, but then again there were no pictures for tracks when I started. Edit: Oh and btw I also had no clue how to describe what it does succinctly ;) [1] https://github.com/prayerslayer/favsquare https://github.com/prayerslayer/favsquare [2] http://obscure-basin-1623.herokuapp.com/ http://obscure-basin-1623.herokuapp.com/ [3] http://ascott.github.io/favematic/ http://ascott.github.io/favematic/
- ocolot 12y agoaha, excellent, thx! If you wish to geve a hand, welcome ;)
- pronoiac 12y agoA more clear tagline: "Listen to the favorite bands of your favorite bands"
- brandonmenc 12y agoThis is a great tool. I can't believe Soundcloud doesn't already offer this. Recommended!
- hamburglar 12y agoBandcamp does something in this vein which lets you see an artist's recommendations of other artists on the site, but it's much more explicit on the artist's part (choosing to recommend as opposed to a mere "like"). I've found some decent stuff through that mechanism.
- honesta 12y agoit also suggests my own tracks, I guess you should disregard user's own tracks. also, you may add a 'mute' option for certain musicians/people, (some are not musician but just friends)