@prattarazzi Hi Eddie, I am really glad you like it. This was created as a side project for myself over the past few months to easily discover new songs from Soundcloud but now I decided to share with the world with the hopes that a few other people might find it useful. So, this makes me really happy.
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@jayzinc@prattarazzi very good side project. You should integrate events api for your artists as well.
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Q to the creators: what's the function of search supposed to be? I expected I could type a genre name and get a custom chart, but I actually only got tracks that had that phrase in the title or artist name and are unlikely to be the most popular songs in that tag on SC right now. (I typed 'trap').
@basgras for now that is all search is (match each word against the artist or title). i could have it search the genres/tags that the artist gives the song on SoundCloud as well if that's what you are looking for. Any artists that put 'trap' in the tag and you search for the word trap it would return all those songs. Let me know if that's good enough?
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@jayzinc Well, do user research and see what people expect.. I might be an anomaly :) However, since Rising.fm is about charts, you would expect the search to be a tool for seeing charts in niches. So I would say your suggestion's good enough, but again, ask around. I might be an anomaly.
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As a soundcloud addict, I appreciate this product. Though from a superuser perspective, I'd recommend maybe adding a 'list-view' for the songs. Also, the ability to "heart" and "repost" to soundcloud would be incredible. Do you have plans to expand the genres? How are you classifying the genres by the way?
@j_nce I will add List View to my list of things to do for the future. But the amount of work I put in is going to depend on if people use it because list view would be a decent amount of front end work. First, I need to learn promotion and work on getting social media sharing links and things like that first for each track. For the genre's, it looks at the genre the artist used on the track on SoundCloud and then I try to generalize it into either Indie/Hip-Hop/Electronic. So basically if the genre field on SoundCloud contains 'folk' or 'indie pop' or 'punk' I tag it as Indie, if it contains 'r&b', 'rap' 'hiphop' etc I tag it Hip-Hop, 'house', 'dubstep', etc tag it Electronic. There will sometimes be tracks tagged incorrectly. At the moment I won't split into additional genres because that will lead to more mistakes right now but it has crossed my mind to expand and refine the process at some point.
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Great product! I could see this being a tab I keep open all the time. Would love the ability to favorite tracks to my soundcloud. I'd pay for an Android app as well.
@livejamie I updated the webapp to allow users to connect their Rising.fm accounts to SoundCloud. The only thing that will happen right now is if you are connected to SoundCloud, when you Like or Unlike a song, it will also like/unlike the song on your SoundCloud account. Any other features wanted?
I like the product. Things that could be improved:
1. Continue to play songs after screen saver is on.
2. Continue to play songs when focus is in another tab.
3. Start playing new track when I switch categories.
4. Show songs list instead of album covers :)
5. +1 for iOS app
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I think you should change the color of the playback controls. I barely saw them, because firstly I thought the site doesn't have something like this :D. Also, would be nice if you could log in with SC credentials.
@remusbaltariu Hi Remus, I am the developer of this webapp, I will play with the colors on the progress bar sometime soon and try to come up with something easier to see than light gray bar with white icons.
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@jayzinc Awesome! thank you for your reply. Keep up this awesome work! :D
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I fell in love with rising.fm with the 1st song. What a fabulous music discovery idea. Look forward to many more features and an iOS app.
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