jiffypop

Yes, this has been submitted a few times. And I'm finally getting the useful feedback that I respect HN readers for. Maybe what you see as spam is what I see as persistence. But I think a lot of getting good feedback from HN is submitting at the right time with the right title so your submission doesn't die on the vine so to speak.

Hi thanks for the ideas. We're going to add more genres - I think it will be autocomplete so that the full list will be available. For #2 we're looking at different ways to integrate further with Soundcloud, but obviously we want to keep users on our own site. ;)

That's an awesome idea! Adding to the top of the to-do list.

there is a lot of songs, but to be honest, they aren't tagged very well in soundcloud. we were thingink of adding a feature to let people re-tag them and then storing that meta data on our end to help improve the selection.

Yep, we're using Soundcloud - right now it seems to be the best solution for a 3rd party music API. We add some filters to our selection criteria to weed out some of the longer mixes etc. We think it's a cool way to access the Soundcloud catalog and let users find stuff they maybe wouldn't have otherwise.

Yes the songs are sourced from Soundcloud, so if your tracks are on there and properly tagged with genre, they should appear eventually in songspin.fm

Yeah the controls are not as intuitive as we hoped. We'll be adding more traditional pause/play/skip buttons so as not to confuse our users. thanks for the feedback.

hmm strange - it's all working here, but i'll look into it! thanks.

Still some kinks to work out, but the idea is you can get karma for listening to a track all the way through, liking it etc. The karma system is intended to encourage finding and promoting new stuff, not just listening to the same old thing.