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So under the hood, it is just random tracks curated from existing blogs using their soundcloud pages?

So I guess the next genres to be added are: -Electro.NET -Moombahton.NET -GlitchHop.NET -TrapMusic.NET -FutureGarage.NET -HardDance.NET

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I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

When listening to soundcloud I use this bookmark to turn off comments on the page:

   javascript:(function(){$("a[class='comments-toggle']").click();})();

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Do you have any additional filters on your sources, or are you straight-up playing the streams as-is?

I'd suggest putting in min/max song lengths (to strip out the 2min previews of tracks that sometimes get posted). Although I think your sources are clean enough to handle that. You probably want a 15 min maximum to skip over mixes that sometimes get posted (or better yet, give a playlist for listening to continuous mixes)

If the soundcloud api provides favourites you could use that as an input as well.

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You could pretty much create a simple version of last.fm by using a "similar artists search" and then mutiplexing the individual soundcloud pages for artists.

So you could have a "sounds like Skrillex", "sounds like High Rankin", "sounds like Knife Party" etc where all it does is randomly play tracks from similar artists.

The only filters I have now are tracks larger than 10 minutes since I wanted to avoid including long mixes for now. Never thought about tracks possible being previews. I will look into that as well as thanks for the suggestions.

>Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

The beta of the new SC interface doesnt do that anymore.

Link to the beta: http://next.soundcloud.com/. But it seems there’s a waiting list to use it; that page just lets you put yourself on the waiting list.

A little UI weakness is not going to allow disruption of a strongly networked, community-driven product like SoundCloud.

http://www.youtify.com

yeah man, its all about catering to the user, why bother going to all these different websites when you get it all rolled into a delicious efficient piece of sushi that is turnchannel?

secondly, i think the devs are going to make a playlist style feature or something, along with a volume slider, so users can discover all this new music, save it to a playlist in a user-friendly environment with community aspects such as comments on tracks and the ability to share with simplicity ....

improving on old processes, why invent the wheel bro?

Essentially yes

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