WhatColorIsThisSong.com
Consumer and social
music color matching
SHOW HN2011
How HN took it
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 15 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Performance: 0 for, 9 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting or cool idea
From 5 comments
Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for…
spacemanaki on HNThe stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea. What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether…
jannes on HNCool! Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your…
joeyespo on HNCool stuff! You might like http://huesound.org/ from Music Hack Day in SF this year.
frankdenbow on HNNice idea. So far the only patterns though are girl singer = pink and rap = red.
mousa on HN
Objections
Streaming blocked by region for many users
From 5 comments
Tells me it can't play because of the region (Norway) and also the text in the player is nearly unreadable with some sort of color distortion.
flexd on HNNot streamable in my region (UK) :(
chippy on HNTells me it can't play because of the region (Puerto Rico)
flexterra on HNstream does not play in Poland as well
mgl on HNCool idea! Too bad I can't play the audio (Safari on iOS).
Samuel_Michon on HN
Audio does not play on iOS Safari because it uses Flash
From 3 comments
Great idea, but not hearing anything on iOS Safari.
ctdonath on HNSeems to be Flash.
metageek on HNCool idea! Too bad I can't play the audio (Safari on iOS).
Samuel_Michon on HN
Color picker is offset from the mouse cursor
From 3 comments
Very nice! I seem to have hit a bug, though. The color selection is always many pixels below my mouse cursor.
inportb on HNSame here. Safari 5.05, OS X 10.6.8. (Tested in Firefox 5; same problem.)
alttag on HNSame issue, but on Chrome for Mac, version 12.0.742.112.
josegonzalez on HN
Artist and song name shown before color is picked biases choice
From 2 comments
Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for…
spacemanaki on HNI agree. Otherwise you are inadvertently asking for the color of the artist too. Very interesting idea, though.
markkat on HN
Requests
Hide artist and song name until after color is picked
From 1 comment
Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for…
spacemanaki on HN
Show prior users' choices with luminosity as well as hue and saturation
From 1 comment
Interesting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.
alttag on HN
Use a non-region-locked audio source such as SoundCloud
From 1 comment
How about soundcloud? Works for everyone I think?
hvass on HN
Fix flicker to black at maximum lightness
From 1 comment
Small bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black
a3r0 on HN
Questions
What will be done with the collected data
From 1 comment
The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea. What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether…
jannes on HN
Alternatives named
Moody (crayonroom.com) mood-based playlist project
From 1 comment
Cool! Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your…
joeyespo on HN
Huesound (huesound.org) music and color project
From 1 comment
Cool stuff! You might like http://huesound.org/ from Music Hack Day in SF this year.
frankdenbow on HN