[HN Gopher] Show HN: Product Hunt for Music
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Show HN: Product Hunt for Music
Author : ewhicher
Score : 39 points
Date : 2024-07-17 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tracklist.it)
(TXT) w3m dump (tracklist.it)
| staplers wrote:
| While a nice idea, there's just _so much more_ music made than
| SaaS products and this will eventually need to turn into a
| curated list ala spotify /apple music to keep users from drowning
| in static.
|
| I think highlighting a specific type of music and finding your
| niche audience will be the best way towards a happy userbase.
| Modified3019 wrote:
| I'm big into Doom/stoner rock/space rock/etc, so I subscribe to
| Weedian which has a fire hose of download codes for new
| releases/artists.
|
| Even for this fairly niche group of genres, the free codes I
| get have filled my bandcamp artist list to the point of it no
| longer being useable for its intended purpose.
|
| It was already getting unwieldy with just my classicly paid
| purchases (which I still do a lot of), I have to resort to
| manually create artist playlists to navigate now.
|
| Even just the Weedian compilation albums are so full of tracks,
| I just don't have the time to listen through them to evaluate
| and brutally curate which songs/artists I love before the next
| one comes out. The lasted album, "Trip to California" is like
| 99 songs and over 8 hours. I think people vastly underestimate
| how much music is out there and is being newly released.
|
| Part of this, is the Doom genre tends to be 5-15 minute songs,
| which is absolutely what I want, but also makes listening a
| significant time investment. Fortunately the majority of songs
| are easy to say "yeah nope" to and cull.
|
| Definitely suffering from success here. On the plus side, I've
| come across a lot of gems that can deserve to sit next to Yob
| on my playlist, that I wouldn't have come across otherwise.
|
| I really need figure out solution that lets me stream from a
| self-hosted archive, rate songs on a 5 star scale, genre tag,
| and share playlists with family members. The 5 star rating
| seems to most troublesome to fulfill.
|
| A tool to automatically produce a public facing playlist that
| links to bandcamp, YouTube and perhaps other places as a last
| resort would also be amazing. The best way to discover music,
| is finding and following people like me who make exploring and
| curation into a hobby. "What music do I like? Here's my 5 star
| list"
| ewhicher wrote:
| Couldn't agree more. We are actually already saving genre
| against any track submission so when we have a big enough bank
| of music we will switch on the genre filters :)
| pacomerh wrote:
| Would be great if you could narrow down to sub-genres. Music is
| not like apps where you can just post a general list in the home
| page. Can't expect someone that likes hip hop to like
| experimental. Maybe also get inspiration from Product Hunt's
| ability to have sub categories.
| hailpixel wrote:
| Amazing, history does repeat itself. One of the companies in my
| batch (S07) was iJigg
| (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ijigg), which had the
| 2007's version of this interface: single upvote, player, and all.
| It did well and then petered out as many hyper-niche apps did at
| that time.
|
| Best of luck with this version!
| twiss wrote:
| There is also https://hypem.com/, which focuses on music posted
| by blogs but is otherwise fairly similar. It helped me discover
| a lot of cool music back in the day :) Nowadays Spotify's music
| discovery algorithm is often "good enough", though.
| ewhicher wrote:
| Love hypem
| lordswork wrote:
| Timing is everything. Maybe _now_ is the right time for a music
| discovery app to take off.
| solardev wrote:
| Doesn't this work better in the context of personalized
| recommendations? Pandora is scarily good at this because it's an
| offshoot of the Music Genome Project, which analyzes the
| constituent parts of music
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project?wprov=sfl...
| )
|
| It combines that with your personal things up and listening
| history and predicts what other songs you yourself are likely to
| enjoy.
|
| By contrast, up votes from strangers across genres seems unlikely
| to match your personal tastes.
| ewhicher wrote:
| Genre filters are coming, once we have enough tracks live. What
| we want to do it give artists and music lovers a place to
| discover talent outside of what might be served up for them by
| algos. If the community likes a track enough it will rise to
| the top and get in-front of more ears that might not have
| discovered it otherwise.
| 4d4m wrote:
| Nice UI! I tried to verify an artist using the Bio verification
| code but it didn't work, any tips
| ewhicher wrote:
| Hey thanks for the comment! Sure I can try to help. What
| happened when you pressed verify?
| Reubend wrote:
| Just chiming in to say that the same is happening for me. It
| says "Failed to verify, please check and try again"
|
| I'll keep trying in case this is something to do with cached
| bios
| ewhicher wrote:
| Could well be cached bios, great shout. We'll look into it!
| ewhicher wrote:
| can you send a screenshot of your bio to hello@tracklist.it
| please
| janalsncm wrote:
| The implicit assumption here is that _popularity_ is a good
| heuristic for _relevance_. Typically music recommendation systems
| will take popularity into consideration, but it is not the
| primary ranking factor.
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