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Ask HN: Does anyone want an HN for music?

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I'd quite like a site that lets me discover interesting new music HN-style, with new songs of the day voted up by the community.

The songs would be straight mp3 files or youtube videos, in embedded players, with links to the originals.

None of the cruft and nonsense that last.fm / pandora have in abundance.

Is anyone else interested?

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I think the problem is that "music" is too broad of a category to operate in a similar manner to HN. You'd need to do a reddit-style sub-category system, which not only increases the complexity but also diverges from a HN-like setup.

What's the cruft and nonsense that Pandora has? I'm pretty happy with it -- even upgraded to the pro version to get higher quality audio.

It could work if you weighted the votes by those who had also selected favourite genres that you like - from say your last.fm history or manually selected.

I'm always extremely motivated by music related ideas. Have you been involved in a financed startup before?

Actually a colleague just pointed out that the reddit code is available:

http://github.com/reddit/reddit

Could use that and the last.fm API or MusicBrainz do have a stab at getting the genres?

Not interested in actual songs. I would much rather see a music news version of Hacker News. I've actually thought about this a lot. Users would filter noisy articles, pushing relevant news to the top.

We used to have that, it was called TheSixtyOne.

But now it's just a hollow shell of it's former self.

But now it's just a hollow shell of it's former self.

Exactly. I liked their older UI. Allowed me to explore music better. Right now it seems like they've cut down on features heavily. This approach seems to give new music a chance.

But I think they should offer an option to switch to the old UI for those who have time to wade thru music and choose what they want to listen to.

You can still use it here: http://old.thesixtyone.com/ But they ripped out the comment system and the group system so there is no way to communicate with other users or artists.

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