Show HN: My weekend project, WhatColorIsThisSong.com

Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for some well known artist before even hearing the song.

Tells me it can't play because of the region (Norway) and also the text in the player is nearly unreadable with some sort of color distortion.

Would love to get a take on this idea from someone who has color synesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_col...)

Small bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black

Nice idea. So far the only patterns though are girl singer = pink and rap = red.

The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea.

What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random.

If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of that data.

Another idea: You could compare the colors with the cover art of the respective albums to see if there are matches.

Very nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.

Interesting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.

Cool stuff! You might like http://huesound.org/ from Music Hack Day in SF this year.

This is really cool.

I think it would be better for user engagement to not automatically show what other users chose, and also to have the next song start streaming automatically if the user chose a color for the previous song. I could see going tvtropes on the site and inadvertently spending a lot of time there if it was easier to maintain my mental flow.

Interesting. I'd like to see something similar for shapes. For me, shapes feel like they're more like sounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Of course then you have to design some kind of shape-o-matic interface.

Not streamable in my region (UK)

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Cool!

Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your personal playlist.

you could use the color, translate it to mood, and graph it.

i've fiddled with the graphing from mysql to a 3d(css3, html5) cube with points. link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7727742/playlistsite6/index5.html

use it with this as a template for mapping the emotion: http://www.mir.uncc.edu/docs/goal_Emotions.htm

I just kind of hit a road-block with getting access to music people wanted to listen to. if you can hack something up with what I've fiddled with, or take any inspiration from it, that would be awesome.

Very nice! I seem to have hit a bug, though. The color selection is always many pixels below my mouse cursor.

i dont think it is supposed to look like this?

http://i.imgur.com/wPqrq.png

Chrome 14.0.803.0 on windows 7

Cool idea! Too bad I can't play the audio (Safari on iOS).

Tells me it can't play because of the region (Puerto Rico)

How about soundcloud? Works for everyone I think?

stream does not play in Poland as well