@ppaslier It's not personalized but if you have an account it gives you the ability to 'star' the songs you liked so you can go to 'My Favorites' tab and listen to your own playlist. Each category/genre is populated by searching a couple social media sites and ranking the songs based on a simple algorithmn
@dropthebas Hi Basil, I look into adding soundcloud login/save favorites to soundcloud account/etc things like that soon. But it won't come right away because this is a side project from my real 9-5 job .
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@jayzinc@dropthebas wow. Fantastic side project, dude. Can't wait to see your progress with SC account integration
@dropthebas Hi again, I updated the webapp to allow users to connect their 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?
@colemercer For the past two years I strictly used Hypem.com, it's a nice site, but it's got some problems with discovery. Hypem is great for the 'Popular' page and friends feed, etc but for me I want to discover more than just the Top 50 from Popular. I lived on the 'Latest/Fresh' pages on Hypem but I'd have to go through 50 pages to find just a couple songs I might like every few days. With my webapp, the order of songs is generated based on scanning social media to see how much chatter there is on the track and then assigns it a score. This score gets updated each day. I find this simple formula works really well my charts. The purpose of my app is to always see fresh new songs without having to go through 50 pages like on Hypem. As for SoundCloud's charts, I don't think they are updated enough from what I remember and SoundCloud in general has a big problem with discovery, hence why I used Hypem all the time. The 'New & Hot' charts are pretty good but has 15 days worth of tracks it looks like and only displays 50. The 'New' tab on my site only includes songs I found on social media within the past 48 hours and shows 100 of them. I think SoundCloud charts need more work. I love SoundCloud but I don't like it for discovery.
I am glad SoundCloud allows sites like Hypem, HillyDilly, and now mine to exist and stream from SoundCloud with custom players. I hope you never change this. I am a little worried what's going to happen to sites that stream from SoundCloud with the news about the paid subs coming.
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