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Hi,

I created loopy, a website to share and discover music you love.

A former coworker answered an ice breaker question saying his superpower would be to know every language fluently since he travels a lot.

Mine would be to hear every song I would fall in love with.

I realized that I will die without hearing every song that I will fall in love with. So many of my all-time favorite songs I randomly have heard at a club, coffee shop, traveling, walking by a store, etc.

There is a high chance that I would have never heard those songs. Loopy aims to fix this.

You can post your all-time favorite songs. If someone else love this song, there is a chance you will too :).

Here is my profile: https://loopy.fm/kyle

Happy listening :)

- Kyle

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The idea is interesting but I always feel like sharing music like that doesn't work.

It's similar to the #music channels that communities sometimes have. People post their favorite songs, or new songs they just discovered, but as it's a diverse group of people posting them and not a tight-nit group that enjoys similiar music it just becomes a stream of new music and people have no idea if they might enjoy it.

It works between friends when people say "I know you like xyz, you might enjoy that", but outside of that the "sharing" part is more fun than actually trying to go through a list of new songs and picking what to listen.

thanks for the feedback. i agree and valid points but i have friends who have nearly identical music taste and sometimes i hate songs they play. so there is still a hit or miss factor.

then the question would be how to decrease the ratio between hits and misses? do you have any ideas of what you would like to see tackle this?

i have a few: - upvoting songs - organize songs by the plays / views it has from the source (youtube, spotify, soundcloud). - suggest songs that genre is the same as your favorite genre?

gotta effectively feature in the "I know you like xyz, you might enjoy that" factor

https://www.criticker.com has one of the best discovery systems I’ve seen. Worth looking into, and using if you also like film!

Is the registration step strictly neccessary? I'm willing to give it a try, but I'm probably not willing to jump through a hoop to do so.

(Or to put it another way: you posted this link three hours ago. How many people registered, and how many people bounced?)

I had the exact same reaction.

i got you, you can now see what songs people are posting without an account:

https://www.loopy.fm/preview

Does it actually require registration? You made this comment 29 minutes ago, and I'm listening to it without registering right now. (The "Sign up" button is front and center, but you can scroll past it and still see what's playing).

I scrolled to the bottom to the "Discover new music ->" button and got the signup page there as well. I'm assuming there's something here beyond a carousel? I could be totally misunderstanding, I admit.

mhmm i'll change it to be more public. thanks for the feedback

Thanks, then I'll definitely be around again in a couple of days to check it out properly.

you can now see what songs people are posting without an account:

https://www.loopy.fm/preview

Neat! This reminds me of This Is My Jam [0] that ran from 2011 to 2015 I think. It was basically the same idea, but you shared the tracks that you liked right now (and you could only share one track a week) which is an interesting twist. I miss it sometimes – maybe Loopy will fill that niche to me :-)

One feature request outright, if I may: Bandcamp has lots of music I love personally, so if Loopy supported it that would be great!

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218152857/https://www.thisi...

appreciate you. ahh nice, that's awesome, cool site. why did it end after the 4 years?

true, will look into adding bandcamp integration.

They've been a part of an accelerator (The Echo Nest) and I think they just couldn't figure out the way to make it sustainable? Although I think there could be a way to run it as a hobby project, too, but that might be emotionally taxing after 4 years. Either way, I'm super grateful for TIMJ, I've found many great songs there.

I wonder how much that exact context - at a club, coffee shop, travelling, walking by a store - is part of what makes us fall in love with songs. I can remember the exact open air bar in Lisbon that I first heard a favourite song, the exact furniture shop in Berlin where I heard another. One particular song brings back the night time walk round San Francisco where I first heard it, another contours up the lazy summer the poolside lunch on a Greek island where I heard another. There are very few that I remember that don’t have a context of people, time or place.

Is it supposed to expose email addresses to the public?

fixed thx

Maybe the genre list could be a bit more extended ? For example, consider "reggae". While one could think that dancehall is also reggae, its sort of rare that people who would enjoy rocksteady would be pleased to get something from dancehall just because the "top level genre" matches ?

the list of genres when filtering songs are only genres of uploaded songs.

you are able to upload songs with reggae as the genre once you make an account. i see how that could be confusing.

I immediately assumed this had something to do with https://loopypro.com/ - which is wildly popular for certain music production niches.

You may want to reconsider that name imho.

Unfortunately Spotify links don’t work for me. For instance, the following URL copied from Spotify’s share extension in iOS returns a not-valid link in your app:

https://spotify.link/0elKaAdp1Cb

mhm thanks for pointing this out but i tried this format and it does not work with the api. it must be like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/0QDr66VdiCEuyDF33MAtlG?si=OIn...

i got the link by clicking the song in the app -> share -> copy link. not sure if the share extension is generating different links, different version or something.

Yes, that’s what I did on my iPhone. I used the app’s share feature and ‘copy link.’ I can’t see iOS circumventing Spotify links.

I like the idea, but no Apple Music or standard m3u / playlist support?

Think about ActivityPub integration, e.g. Funkwhale.

i'm also constantly shazaming in weird places but i doubt everybody likes what i like (or vice versa)

you'd be surprised :)

Is this like HumanHuman?

what's that?

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