Ask YC: Feedback on my new startup, a music scrobbler/player

I'd really appreciate the HN community's thoughts on my new site, snuzu.com. The second iteration has just been rolled out this morning.

It's a simple service that keeps track of everything you play in iTunes, WinAmp or WMP. Then it creates a listening history page and provides full-length playable tracks for a majority of songs.

For an example of what that looks like, you could check out my page: snuzu.com/history.aspx?id=1

I realize it's not the most novel idea, but I'd like to try a cleaner approach to this type of site and (hopefully) get enough users over time to develop some more interesting/sophisticated statistical metrics about music listening trends.

Anyway, enough rambling. All your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

No Linux support, so I can' test it. Also, it doesn't seem to offer anything that woudd make me change from last.fm.

Congrats on the work you've done, I like the design. A few notes...

-In the "recently played tracks" box, don't show tracks that can't be played full-length.

-Don't put the time it was played for now... I don't see any upside to counter the hit you'll take in perceived value from the half-hour gap between tracks being played.

-I don't really know what's going to happen when I click the "get started" link... how about some explanatory front-page text like "1. download snuzu 2. listen to music and snuzu shares it with your friends 3. snuzu tells you what your friends are listening to." That's rough, but the point is, I'm not going to install this unless I know what it is.

Money-wise, you could make some via an affiliate program for buying songs. I like the idea of an FB app as well to link it in, people seem to dig those although I don't install many myself. That helps as well since you don't have your friend list on snuzu itself from the look of it.

Not sure it's something I'd use actively, but then again I'm also not much for using stuff like Twitter either but apparently many people are...

How have you gathered the rights to the songs you play?

It doesn't offer much over last.fm except that it finds full length songs. You might be able to get some traction if you offered a widget people could place on their blogs, myspace, facebook, etc.. What music search engine are you using? Seepod?

very nice. I know your using the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER on the bottom there.

The only suggestion I have would be: when I click play within the list, switch the play button to pause or stop icon. I don't know if you can send a stop request to the player. Also, i do realize that if you play one song, then play another it switches nicely.

Otherwise, very cool. good luck and be careful with the licensing.

My first layout impression: Don't like how the player is on the bottom almost hidden away. Would be nice if it was more relevant in the design

It is less cluttered than last.fm, but is that all it brings? I don't see the value-add above the current options.

Clean design, not sure if the idea is new but if not, there’s potential to upgrade existing stuff.

Good job!