Tried "the wombats." Artist not found. "Clutch" found results, but the first three songs were pretty painful. "Mos Def" and I'm happy.
What's behind the recommendations? Is it manual (like Pandora)?
How are you approving music? There's a reason some new music never gets heard. I'd be really interested in hearing how you solved the quality control challenge.
At some point, an artist is going to stop being "up & coming."
Why not use Open Graph and Connect for likes and logins?
I think I've been listening for about 25 minutes. I like listening to it, but visual seems pretty disconnected. I really like the way rdio is doing their playlist and controls.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be importing a bunch more artists in the near future so "the wombats" etc will give results. The recs are more "digg like" so there's a bit of a cold-start problem with some of quality. Once we see how people are using it we'll tweak the algo. We'll be adding Connect soon and are looking into who we can leverage the FB likes but there are limitation with the callbacks.
maybe it's the repetitive use of the play button (search, similar songs).
maybe it's each song being in its own container.
maybe it's the lack of visual emphasis on any one area (the shared white between the header, player, and playlist).
What's behind the recommendations? Is it manual (like Pandora)?
How are you approving music? There's a reason some new music never gets heard. I'd be really interested in hearing how you solved the quality control challenge.
At some point, an artist is going to stop being "up & coming."
Why not use Open Graph and Connect for likes and logins?
I think I've been listening for about 25 minutes. I like listening to it, but visual seems pretty disconnected. I really like the way rdio is doing their playlist and controls.