Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks(thedailydrop.co)
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Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks
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This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)
Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.
I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.
This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore.
One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?
One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?
Go to a record store, pick at random a few from the 'news' section, listen and repeat until you have a few you reckon go together. Then buy them, research the artists involved on Discogs, go see them play. Do this weekly for a few years.
Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physically there, staring at you reminding you that you forked out cash for it, something you come back to again and again forms an authentic experience that can only be replicated in part by digital.
Check out stores like Hardwax, Space Hall, Kristina records, Naminohana, honest jons or whatever is local to you. Look up the event listings in Resident Advisor and grep the artist names. Actually leave the house. :)
Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physically there, staring at you reminding you that you forked out cash for it, something you come back to again and again forms an authentic experience that can only be replicated in part by digital.
Check out stores like Hardwax, Space Hall, Kristina records, Naminohana, honest jons or whatever is local to you. Look up the event listings in Resident Advisor and grep the artist names. Actually leave the house. :)
This is how it's done :)
Also, have you actually gone into record stores and previewed records before buying them? I may purchase this record player[1] as a way to check out records at the store, but I wasn't sure if this was a thing store owners typically allow. Any insight?
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Vestax-VES-HANDYTRAXUSBBLK-Handy-Trax-...
Also, have you actually gone into record stores and previewed records before buying them? I may purchase this record player[1] as a way to check out records at the store, but I wasn't sure if this was a thing store owners typically allow. Any insight?
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Vestax-VES-HANDYTRAXUSBBLK-Handy-Trax-...
Believe it or not but you don't HAVE to buy anything, you can sit there for hours and if nothing catches your attention leave empty handed. The handytrax are cool but more for big garage sales where they don't provide decks and I'd be wary of a record store that doesn't have record players.
try this: http://record-shops.org/
try this: http://record-shops.org/
I hear you on feeling like I suck at music discovery. I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Recently one of my brothers launched a sort of music discovery/contest site-thing[1], and while I'm not totally certain about everything they're doing, I have found a lot of interesting tracks looking through their Discover tab. You might find it worth checking out.
[1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/
EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.
[1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/
EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.
You can follow the musical graph manually, like people have always done.
Look for artists from the same label as artists you like, look for labels owned by the artists you like, look for artists that have appeared alongside them on compilations, look for compilations/mixes playlisted by them, look for other artists they've collaborated with in the past, look for reviews of records you like and see what other music they compare it to, look up old shows theyve done and see who else performed, look at other shows organized by the promoters of those shows, etc etc etc.
Never be afraid to listen to something just because you like the name or the cover. Also, it pays to check out any record that has the word "afro" in the title and/or a photo of the band standing in front of a spaceship. You can develop your own heuristics :)
http://discogs.com and http://allmusic.com are useful in this regard, as well as good old wikipedia, and reading the notes on the records themselves. And the great thing about spotify et al is that all this can be done in seconds, rather than years.
The big secret to knowing about good music: listening to a lot of shit music until you hit paydirt.
Look for artists from the same label as artists you like, look for labels owned by the artists you like, look for artists that have appeared alongside them on compilations, look for compilations/mixes playlisted by them, look for other artists they've collaborated with in the past, look for reviews of records you like and see what other music they compare it to, look up old shows theyve done and see who else performed, look at other shows organized by the promoters of those shows, etc etc etc.
Never be afraid to listen to something just because you like the name or the cover. Also, it pays to check out any record that has the word "afro" in the title and/or a photo of the band standing in front of a spaceship. You can develop your own heuristics :)
http://discogs.com and http://allmusic.com are useful in this regard, as well as good old wikipedia, and reading the notes on the records themselves. And the great thing about spotify et al is that all this can be done in seconds, rather than years.
The big secret to knowing about good music: listening to a lot of shit music until you hit paydirt.
> I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find.
Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to.
Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.
Not sure why you feel like you "suck" at music discovery. First of all, it's not exactly a skill...so you can't really suck at it. In other words, there's no "wrong" way to discover new music except not doing it at all. Second of all, the means of discovering music you described is the primary way that 96% of the world discovers new music. Few people hear an artist, then immediately look up their label and listen to a few other things the artist has done, as well as other songs from the label they're on. Most of the spread of music occurs via word-of-mouth, or people listening to whatever their friends are listening to.
Honestly there isn't anything better right now than getting music from your friends, or just going out all the time and hearing new tracks from DJs/bands/whatever.
It's probably just how I consider myself in the context of people I know. I love being well versed in something and offering suggestions to people, but I have always been more of a taker when it comes to music. Normally I'm ready with a book/movie/tv/game/whatever recommendation, but I've never been connected to the music world the same way.
It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.
It could also be a sibling thing, as 2 of my younger brothers are very much on the cutting edge of new acts (following tiny blogs, watching new soundcloud accounts, etc.), and I feel like I end up mostly relying on hearing new things through them. There's even a clear delineation in my musical tastes in the early 2000s when my siblings began finding music and I shifted away from relying on my parents' stuff to theirs. It's just something I think about when I'm strolling through spotify playlists most days.
Yes! I totally agree with your point of SC music discovery. I couldn't find a workflow that fit/worked. Thanks for checking it out.
And in regards to the FB name, there should be a way. If you go under settings (gear icon) in the upper right, it should lead to a drop down where you can go to your settings and change your username. Let me know if this doesn't work for some reason.
And in regards to the FB name, there should be a way. If you go under settings (gear icon) in the upper right, it should lead to a drop down where you can go to your settings and change your username. Let me know if this doesn't work for some reason.
Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wrt taste:(time for discovery) is Digitially Imported Preimum that works perfectly with Clementine (or any player for that matter).
Would love something like this for hip hop as in my experience it's mostly over the top blogs and mixtape sites.
How's this different than the drop? Is this just a ripoff (name and all)?
thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.
Nice work, how long did it take you to build? Just a note — the pause/play sequence resets the track to the beginning instead of starting it from where you paused (chrome 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit))
Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.
Useful aggregator and time-saver for voracious seekers of new jams. Having more than just EDM along with a filter by genre option would be nice for those of us who like DnB, Techno, Trap, etc.
I wish I could tell one EDM track apart from another.
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The mainstream stuff is pretty homogeneous, but it gets pretty interesting when you get into the lesser-known stuff.
This is awesome. Future feature ideas: Would love a daily email of new tracks & a way to add them to a Spotify playlist.
Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.
I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?
Where can I file a bug? I'd love to be able to view the source on Github and create an issue.
For now you can just send any issues to [email protected]
Thanks!
Thanks!
I built listen2edm.com last summer in about 4 days, though I never even did anything to really market or "release" it. It scraped new tracks from 15 different blogs to gather its content. If anyone finds this interesting, maybe I'll continue working on it.
Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot of tracks I'm not interested in. I think it's going to be important that in the future the user is given some more control and selectivity (in addition to some more social components). Good work.
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Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good.
While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.
I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).
The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.
I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).
The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)
That's great. Yeah, I just wanted to bring forward that I use a pretty slim criteria for when I'm deciding to unfollow an account on SC. Essentially, if that account is not posting or reposting any tracks that I'm interested in for a while, I unfollow them.
So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!
So I would hate to see this to you at a larger scale... "Well, Daily Drop isn't posting anything I'm interested in anymore, so I just won't use it". Having more control and options would very much help protect against this. Best of luck!
The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively.
Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)