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I am a total music nut. So I would certainly try it if it had a web interface. For me, the barrier to install a native app on my phone is pretty high.

Looking at the permissions this app wants makes me feel even less comfortable. Access to my camera, my mic, my contacts, my identity, the data on my sd...

One of my favorite ways to discover music is Gnoosic (https://www.gnoosic.com) where I don't have to install anything and get results right away. I found some of my all time favorite bands this way.

Any other tips by the HN crowd on how to expand ones musical horizon?

I made a micro social media site during the first UK lockdown which allows people to share their favourite track each week.

I thought it could be a cool way to get music recommendations from people you know. The main concept is that by limiting shares to once a week, no one person could dominate the feed.

It's called Earworms: https://earworms.club

You can search by genre tag as well: https://earworms.club/genres/alternative_hip_hop

That looks very appealing - I'm an Apple Music subscriber, so having the option to play in Apple Music alongside Spotify would be handy - is the project Open Source?

Thanks! I haven't open sourced it yet but I was planning on it. (I'll need to change some API keys first - side project!)

You're not the first, or even the second, to suggest adding Apple Music so it's definitely something I want to include.

The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with. Craziest part is the artist isn’t actually that similar to the 3 suggestions I gave it, different genre and everything.

Spotify and Apple Music (my two main sources of music) both constant suggest stuff to me I have absolutely zero interest in, almost to the point where it seems like a parody, yet this site just nailed it first go (and subsequent suggestions were really good too).

> The first thing it suggested was an artist I’ve never heard of, who I’m now completely in love with.

Are you speaking of syncc.app or gnoosic.com ?

This gave me a remarkably good suggestion. I will certainly be looking into more of the gnod products (https://www.gnod.com/)

I've also found Music Map [1] (also from Gnod) to be useful when searching for bands similar to something I already like.

[1] https://www.music-map.com/

There's this (very very old) website which makes discovery very nice, but specifically for progressive rock[0]. Maybe you can find something like that for other genres too.

0: http://www.progarchives.com/

https://everynoise.com/ was a thing for me. I opened a lot through it. And it was fun to browse through different countries as well as through different genres.

This is great! Where can I find more niche sites like this?

Amazing, I had never heard of this before but am digging its suggestions. Thanks for bringing this into my life!

I like to use Spinitron — https://spinitron.com to find radio stations or shows that I like. The home page is a feed sourced from a large number of community/college/non-commercial radio stations in the US, showing what tracks are being played at any given moment. One can watch tracks spill down the feed and, if you see something you like, click the link through to the station’s page on Spinitron. This lists the stations recent playlist, archived playlists, and schedule, with links to the station itself as well as links to the major music services for each track. It’s a little buggy but I’ve found it great for discovering not only new music but new curators of music (ok DJs) which is even better. And because it seems restricted to non-commercial stations (though no NPR affiliates) there are no ads to speak of.

Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app

Hey there I created Audius about 3 years ago for the same reason these guys created their app: algorighmic music recommendations get boring after a while.

I extended Audius with the Matrix chat network to chat and share music, all with YouTube/Vimeo/mp3 Urls (so it's completely free and no registration is needed, all data is stored in the borwser)

Audius is also a progressive web app so you can use it like an app if you want to.

It's also open source, and has a single HTML file that you can host on any server.

https://audius.rockdapus.org/

So like a new Myspace but without being able to access it from the browser.

Please, don't use apps for everything. And if you do, don't forget about the universal platform we all have AKA the web.

Thanks for the comment and great input. Web maybe soon but this is our current focus.

I’m curious why?

Unless your code is doing something which the browser sandbox can’t handle (what could that be?), I’d hypothesize that your app is just another data harvesting app.

I know the user data market having worked in adtech for a while (morally the worst part of my career)

We started with mobile development and just continue building, were't thinking about the web so much. Also we are currently a small team. Web app will definitely be awesome and possible in future. Follow us for more :)

The frontpage fails to inform me what this app acutally does. As far I can tell this is an app that lets be listen to a synchronized spotify session and lets me chat with people in this session?

Who or what are my "idols"? In which way am I able to interact with them?

I'd like less dancing people, less buzzwords, less flashy animations but more information on page.

And why does the app need all those permissions?

Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app

Poor effort spam

The fact that there is a reference to 'idols' I think the target market is tweens.

How are you able to use Spotify playback without having to run the main app in the background - the official SDK always talks about being a remote

Spotify recently introduced a streaming SDK for Premium users which has no dependency on the app. You should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here to know more: https://www.humit.app

please stop spamming the comments section here

I haven't installed the app for the reasons other users have pointed out here. I would have loved to see a web app, though.

Nevertheless, one of the things I miss from the old MySpace that seems to be missing from other sites is being able to search bands based on a location.

Yes, Bandcamp allows you to filter by location, but it seems to be restricted to a small set of large cities. What I really want is a way for me to find out "what are the new bands from my hometown?" or "how's the punk scene in this neighborhood city?".

Hey man, I downloaded and tried the app, seems fun.

I got some feedback for you if you want it :)

When creating a new public session, I added a Spotify playlist, the issue is when I want to change tracks.I cannot change them? I can only change the queue and need to wait for my song to come automatically? Also scrolling while dragging a song in the queue is broken FYI.

And I didn't notice if there is a shuffle play?

And last, mute button is == pause button? Kind of a weird UX.

But all in all, the app seems neat, keep going!

Thanks for the awesome feedback! We are improving this helped a lot

I want this app so bad but it's so broken XD. Spent 30 minutes putting together a track list and it just dumped the whole thing.

Great idea but the Android App is crazy buggy on my device (Pixel 3). Search for tracks doesn't work as I host a session. It's crashed twice in 30 mins. Shame cos it seems like a great idea.

There's definitely a niche for this, I dislike Spotify's algorithmic "shuffle" I've always dreamed of a music/social messaging app where sharing playlists and songs is natural and its possible to listen to music within app. It'd be pretty niche/underground as the big streaming players would likely control the commercial rights of popular songs, this would be more like soundcloud where individuals/smaller artistes would upload and connect with fans.

Hey, you should totally check out this cool social music sharing app called humit. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app

Not my cup of tea but just brainstorming of having a mixture of Last.FM with listening to 'someone's' recent playlist would be cool.

E.g. 'I am 60% similar to you in taste, I can now listen to the last 24 hours of what you've "publicly aired"'

Does Last.fm premium do that? I'm yet to find a music platform that you can rate music, listen, share and socialise effectively. Last.fm is too focused on scrobbling.

How did this get to first page? Is it a YC company or did they game the system?

Hmm...how exactly can someone do that? Am curious.

https://upvotes.club/buy/hacker-news-upvote/

> We upvote with very strong accounts

Would be pretty easy to buy a few and see what these accounts are.

New posts with a few upvotes seem to appear on the front page, for how long is a different question.

What hahha, and it is just my second post! I think it may have to be with Show HN: tag

Congrats :)

Sleek design and nice way of listening and discover music... As a playlist curator, this app is definitely a good space for me to show off some great tunes for people.

Looks cool, but lack of apple music support is a killer for me. I feel like spotify is not the most friendly platform for hardcore music people.

We hear you! At humit, we are integrating Spotify and Apple Music to provide a platform agnostic experience. Head here for details: https://www.humit.app

"Download the app"? No.

Yeah well

>Discover music from people. Not algorithms.

Unsolicited opinion: Ok, fine, but music discovery algorithms are one of the coolest things to come out of the Internet. When Pandora first launched, it was mind-blowing. Now it's commonplace. I've found so many good artists on YouTube, Bandcamp, and the like (don't use Spotify). I don't know how they work, but I'm pretty sure they also take user engagement into account, so I wonder if this is really doing anything novel or just marketing.

Mix-tapes have been around forever, they just did not materialize very well in the web. I have created a similar software called Audius (audius.rockdapus.org) 3 years ago for the same reason. If you listen to a wide variety of music, algorithms only get you so far, in the end you need random inspiration from your friends and strangers. The last 3 years I have discovered tons of new music through algorithms AND my social music networks. I have build up a music group with my friends and joined several other music groups and I can assure you it's much more than marketing.

To the user engagement it's the same as in all other (social) networks you have a quote of 1 out of 10 people (if you are lucky) that post content and only a critical mass of engaged people will keep a community alive. An interesting read on this topic is also https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

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