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It gets all the core…",{"value":66,"source":7,"evidence":67},"Maker wanted a random music discovery alternative to Pandora and Spotify and uses it as a hacking playlist.",[68],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":70,"source":7,"evidence":71},"Built over one summer.",[72,74],{"id":73},"post",{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[76,80,84,92],{"value":77,"source":7,"evidence":78},"Node.js",[79],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":81,"source":7,"evidence":82},"HTML5 local storage",[83],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":85,"source":86,"evidence":87},"jPlayer","commenter",[88],{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"4466714","chelmertz","For the lazy ones, here's a copy-paste to add a download-link: ``` $('#extras').append(\"\u003Ca href='\"+$('#player').data('jPlayer').status.src+\"'>Download\u003C\u002Fa>\"); ``` (Only for the…",{"value":93,"source":86,"evidence":94},"Last.fm scrobbling",[95,99],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"4462529","darkdefender","Love it. The last.fm scrobble is a nice touch. Makes this site all the more awesome to use. Simple, effective design too.. Love it.",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"4462352","hardik988","I'm loving every single song it's selecting for me. Is there a way I can login and save my loved songs (apart from scrobbling) ? So I liked a song, then I clicked scrobble , it…","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":107,"objections":147,"requests":194,"questions":243,"alternatives":281},[108,124,139],{"value":109,"source":86,"evidence":110},"Simple, clean interface with instant playback",[111,115,119,120],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"4462403","bryanh","Woah, blew my ears off. I did not expect it to start playing instantly. Awesomeness past that. Simple. Quick. No bullshit. I usually don't use services like this but I find…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"4462767","notatoad","It's a play button, and when you press it it actually just starts playing cool music? I didn't know that sort of straightforwardness and intuitiveness was even possible. 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Beautiful interface and beautiful songs.",{"value":140,"source":86,"evidence":141},"Good design and colours",[142,146],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"4462371","chime","Very good execution and a good choice for the domain name. The design (green\u002Fwhite\u002Fred\u002Fhearts) reminds me of http:\u002F\u002Fhypem.com\u002F - you should check it out if you haven't. It's got…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},[148,160,173,184],{"value":149,"source":86,"evidence":150},"Wants accounts or persistent saved favourites",[151,155,156],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"4462365","selectout","I am absolutely loving this. Any chance of more permanent accounts though? Local storage\u002Fcookies are something I go through quite often, plus I'd love to be able to go back to…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"4463666","johnnyg","This is truly outstanding. Please allow me to create an account so I can come back to my favorites (or make the UI clearer as to what is saved for me and what's not).",{"value":161,"source":86,"evidence":162},"Missing artist, song and source-blog info or download\u002Fbuy links",[163,164,168,169],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"4462428","ooobo","Great execution, no barrier to playing. If I understand what you are doing correctly (scraping mp3 blogs), most of the music is provided to the blogs by artist (or PR) for…",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"4462462","ealize","A link to download\u002Fbuy the music or even Artist's profile would be helpful. Love the colors, and the minimalistic UI.",{"value":174,"source":86,"evidence":175},"Music skews toward indie rock and less electronic",[176,180],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"4462798","msutherl","Love the music so far, but it seems biased toward indie rock. Is that by design? I prefer electronic music, am I out of luck?",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"4472426","MaxwellM","Awesome. I hate indie rock, but I still love Mixest. Kudos.",{"value":185,"source":86,"evidence":186},"Flash dependency breaks on some browsers",[187,191],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"4462938","ojiikun","In both Firefox(ESR) and Chrome(v22) I am getting a message that I don't have the latest Flash installed. When I click on the message, adobe says I already have it. (no flash…",{"id":192,"by":189,"text":193},"4462973","Okay, fought this for 10-15 minutes and discovered that it was my security settings in Firefox and my c-t-p settings in Chrome that were breaking things. Please switch to HTML5…",[195,201,210,221,232],{"value":196,"source":86,"evidence":197},"Add user accounts or saved favourites",[198,199,200],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},{"value":202,"source":86,"evidence":203},"Link to source blog, artist and purchase pages",[204,205,206],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},{"id":207,"by":208,"text":209},"4462825","Matt_Cutts","Great stuff! I've really been enjoying this--the interface is clean and it's a great experience. If you write up more about how you find the songs or the tech under the hood, I'd…",{"value":211,"source":86,"evidence":212},"Volume control",[213,217],{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"4462838","Dilan","Is there any way to change the volume?",{"id":218,"by":219,"text":220},"4466541","_void","Awesome stuff ! Would be nice to have volume control though..",{"value":222,"source":86,"evidence":223},"Mobile-friendly version",[224,228],{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"4463474","PhilipDaineko","mobile version is needed!",{"id":229,"by":230,"text":231},"4462842","flexxaeon","great execution for all the reasons already mentioned. since it's layout is already simple and modular, a couple of meta tags and @media styles in your CSS would be good to make…",{"value":233,"source":86,"evidence":234},"Blog post about the tech",[235,239],{"id":236,"by":237,"text":238},"4463717","agotterer","Congrats on re-launching! Could you tell us a little about the tech? I think some folks would be interested in hearing about the node crawler and maybe a little about how it…",{"id":240,"by":241,"text":242},"4462790","DigitalSea","This is awesome, I've been using it for the last couple of hours now really nicely done. Would love a blog post explaining the development process and the choices you made.",[244,252,267,274],{"value":245,"source":86,"evidence":246},"How is the music legally sourced?",[247,248],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},{"id":249,"by":250,"text":251},"4462379","mbell","I love it. I really wish there was a link to more information about the artist or at least to where the crawler found the audio. I'm sure the artists would appreciate it also. On…",{"value":253,"source":86,"evidence":254},"How does the crawler determine indie and pick blogs?",[255,259,263],{"id":256,"by":257,"text":258},"4463282","squiggy22","Can you give any details on how you determine the music found is Indie? Are you looking for just Indie keywords or cross referencing a database?",{"id":260,"by":261,"text":262},"4462512","bbarrows","Awesome site. Im curious as to how you defined your heuristics? Finding good obscure music seems like a hard thing to do programmatically. It seems like you would want to find…",{"id":264,"by":265,"text":266},"4462651","ammmir","awesome, i love the simplicity! i'm curious, how are you seeding your crawler and determining attributes for the next song recommendation? from my understanding, pandora has a…",{"value":268,"source":86,"evidence":269},"Will the code be released?",[270],{"id":271,"by":272,"text":273},"4463528","mrnil","Do you plan on releasing the code?",{"value":275,"source":86,"evidence":276},"What happened with the PHP virus?",[277],{"id":278,"by":279,"text":280},"4462514","xsc","love it. can you give some insight regarding the \"php virus\"?",[282,294,301,308],{"value":283,"source":86,"evidence":284},"Hype Machine",[285,286,290],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},{"id":287,"by":288,"text":289},"4463167","justindocanto","HypeM.com actually has a fixed set of blogs that it gets music from. I mean, I guess you could say it crawls those posts on those blogs, but it just doesnt crawl 'the web' per…",{"id":291,"by":292,"text":293},"4463243","jordn","This looks really great. The big problem with hypem I've found is that the popular tracks is completely under crowd control and wheres I used to use the service to find music…",{"value":295,"source":86,"evidence":296},"Songza",[297],{"id":298,"by":299,"text":300},"4462632","circa","this is great. I've discovered songza earlier this year and have been using that. well done man!",{"value":302,"source":86,"evidence":303},"Grooveshark radio",[304],{"id":305,"by":306,"text":307},"4462653","SquareWheel","I definitely prefer it to Grooveshark radio. Nice and simple. The interface is a bit confusing, I pressed the music button thinking it was broken. Maybe add tooltips? Also, using…",{"value":309,"source":86,"evidence":310},"Indy",[311],{"id":312,"by":313,"text":314},"4462927","a3_nm","I have fond memories of discovering nice indie music with something called Indy, which was released in 2005 by Ian Clarke (of Freenet fame)…",{"comments":38,"answered":36,"key":316},[317,318,321],{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":319,"text":320},"4462374","The old developers never rebuilt the site after it was hacked, but I offered to take over the project.",{"id":322,"text":323},"4462364","Ah, that's because www.mixest.com and mixest.com are technically different domains :(. 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