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In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point.

While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png

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I fucking love this.

Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.

EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).

> "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology

Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also starting to refer to a very 'American' style of dance music, so it probably will turn off a lot of people, especially those most involved/interested in electronic music.

Music genres are one of those identity-defining topics[1], so it's best to sidestep the whole issue if there's any doubt!

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

I would argue against "EDM" in the name not because it sounds stupid, but because it limits the point of reference to a very specific style of music in a worldwide music-playing web service.

The reason why "Spotify" and "Rdio" are such good names is because musically they are undefined by the service and defined by you; you can listen to almost any kind of music on them. Also I think it's better to avoid acronymns; that can be a little obscure. Don't limit yourself or your business to identity-defining topics. See: Amazon, Zappos, Google, Apple, etc.

Thanks so much!

I'll consider adding a Spotify link in the next version (will be released soon, I hope).

RE: Favicon. I need a lot of design stuff! I'll whip up something for the next iteration too.

Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.

Thanks! I'm usually much more cautious about branding/naming but for the life of me, I couldn't hit a sweet spot.

So I went with whatever I could think of.

Open to suggestions :)

Just listen2dance?

Listen2ItAll

Pretty cool site man. We launched an customizable SoundCloud player that could fit in pretty nicely here. We even have a player skin that would match your color scheme :)

Check it out at https://www.toneden.io/player. The repo is at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk.

Just hit me up if you want some help integrating it.

HA. So funny because I totally commented on the Facebook post you guys posted. ANDDDDDD I commented on the HN post :) something about volume control.

I'll check yours out later, but have you tried Slacker? I got tired of Pandora because it tended to get too repetitive longer-term, but Slacker seems to have stations controlled by actual DJs that rotate new music in and out.

This is AWESOME.

Right on man! Can I suggest you add a Favourites list if the user is signed in?

I'm actually planning to add "favorite playlists" so you can mix/match certain genres.

There's no back-end algorithm to determine what tracks you'll like... but developing a "likes"/"favourtites" system is easily doable. Will DEFINITELY consider it.

Looks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).

Very cool! First song it served me under minimal was both new and awesome.

I'm glad.

This is perfect! If you need any testers, let me know.

Could you shoot me a mail? josh@josh.mn :)

awesome site! this'll be my coding playlist for a while!

I hate to be that guy, but nothing you have under IDM is actually IDM. It's decent glitchhop/dubstep, but I don't know how/why you created that sub-category to shoehorn IDM in there somewhere.

I scraped a few blogs and then took in their tags thinking they would be accurate.

Evidently, they are not always accurate. :(

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