Show HN: Find new music with your friends

Re:Show HN: Find new music with your friends by snikolic on Sunday September 18, 2011 @07:51PM (#3011624)

Any feedback appreciated! This is definitely a work in progress.

I have a lot of music enthusiasts for friends, and we're constantly overwhelming each other with word-of-mouth music and band recommendations. I decided to build something that felt like my Twitter timeline, but for the music my friends were listening to and recommending to one another.

It's been a private site for close friends, but we recently decided to open it to the public and submit it to the EchoNest's Social Music Competition (http://developer.echonest.com/devcontest/).

Thanks for checking us out! We're excited to hear what people think. :-)

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Re:Show HN: Find new music with your friends by sniW on Sunday September 18, 2011 @09:08PM (#3011796)

How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks.

Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.

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Re:Show HN: Find new music with your friends by snikolic on Sunday September 18, 2011 @09:38PM (#3011849)

Think of cool points as HN karma. You get points if things are hearted after you heart them (double if you were the original person to share them).

Search will come soon...that's another beast. :-)

Glad you found some good music! That's what we're aiming for.

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Re:Show HN: Find new music with your friends by ap3mantus on Sunday September 18, 2011 @10:07PM (#3011929)

I was able to get some pretty good results using the custom stream feature (by artist, by genre), but yeah you're right it's not the same as a full featured search.

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