cchound
Creative
royalty-free music library
SHOW HN2018
239points
40comments
#132of 2,155 in 2018
Top 7%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 4 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful free music resource for video and content creators
From 3 comments
Amazing. Been looking for something like this to use as background music for youtube videos. Much appreciated.
dbspin on HNI'm loving this stuff... awesome tracks from some really amazing people.
lowlevel on HNThis is absolutely dope. Thank you!
odd_noises on HN
Objections
Playback and download links were broken at launch
From 2 comments
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of undefined at value (index.build.js?_v=a7a2d7259113c491b649f58a7c951217:29) Also playback and download links are…
vanzorn on HNI would find this rather useful, but as vanzorn pointed out, you appear to have a few errors in your JS and URLs.
osrec on HN
No loading indicator and slow playback start
From 2 comments
Would be nice to: 1) show something happen in the UI straight after clicking play - there might be several seconds latency before it starts streaming now 2) pause any currently…
dharma1 on HN1) still add a loading indicator of some sort. Even if you upgrade your storage server, that does not affect the browsing user's connection =) (we're still not all on broadband)
TheRealPomax on HN
Tracks play over each other instead of pausing the current one
From 2 comments
Cool project. One note, if someone presses play on a different track, the currently playing track should be paused.
wuliwong on HNWould be nice to: 1) show something happen in the UI straight after clicking play - there might be several seconds latency before it starts streaming now 2) pause any currently…
dharma1 on HN
Some uploaded tracks lack a proper CC-BY license
From 2 comments
Just a quick poking around I notice that many of the songs either don't have a license or have a "non-commercial" license. I did find at least a bit that's licensed under "CY-BY"…
abetusk on HNinteresting, it was my intent to release everything under CC-BY but I suppose some of the earlier music that I made as well as stuff uploaded from mobile just used the default…
ozzmotik on HN
Requests
Pause the current track when another starts
From 2 comments
Cool project. One note, if someone presses play on a different track, the currently playing track should be paused.
wuliwong on HNWould be nice to: 1) show something happen in the UI straight after clicking play - there might be several seconds latency before it starts streaming now 2) pause any currently…
dharma1 on HN
Loading indicator after clicking play
From 2 comments
Would be nice to: 1) show something happen in the UI straight after clicking play - there might be several seconds latency before it starts streaming now 2) pause any currently…
dharma1 on HN1) still add a loading indicator of some sort. Even if you upgrade your storage server, that does not affect the browsing user's connection =) (we're still not all on broadband)
TheRealPomax on HN
Preload audio on hover over play button
From 1 comment
A nice UX treatment, if your service can handle it, is to start pre-loading on hover over the play button, that way the song is ready to play when the user clicks. It may seem…
pedalpete on HN
An API
From 1 comment
A nice UX treatment, if your service can handle it, is to start pre-loading on hover over the play button, that way the song is ready to play when the user clicks. It may seem…
pedalpete on HN
Questions
How to show required attribution when using music in videos
From 1 comment
Hi, how would you show the necessary attribution if you are making a video? Caption or perhaps credits at the end?
mixmastamyk on HN
Alternatives named
Incompetech
From 1 comment
There's more royalty-free music at Incompetech: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
msla on HN
Free Music Archive
From 1 comment
Very cool resource! It looks a little spartan now but hopefully this is just the beginning. For other folks looking for free/libre music, here are a few other resources I found:…
abetusk on HN
Starfrosch
From 1 comment
Very cool resource! It looks a little spartan now but hopefully this is just the beginning. For other folks looking for free/libre music, here are a few other resources I found:…
abetusk on HN
CCTrax
From 1 comment
Very cool resource! It looks a little spartan now but hopefully this is just the beginning. For other folks looking for free/libre music, here are a few other resources I found:…
abetusk on HN