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The page load time is currently pretty good. I love the idea. I chose pink and got some nice looking donna summers album. Really cool. I am 29 and used to buy cds on artwork merit.

The simple idea of admiring art is what i like. clicking the itunes button is not something i would do.

This is incredible, definitely the most random way to discover new music. Would be nice if there was a hex search function.

Ha, reminds me of the SF Music Hack Day project we did way back when: http://huesound.org/

I guess there's nothing new under the sun :)

Their design looks a bit nicer, but I am going to guess they spent more than 24 hours on it as well.

Couldn't you have omitted the last two sentences, which amount to a polite version of "we've already made this and theirs only looks nicer because they spent more time?"

I suppose I could have. I've no idea how much time they spent, perhaps it was a quick hack too. It was just unexpected to see someone else's implementation of the same idea, so it made me laugh at the strange coincidences of life in general. Certainly I meant nothing ill by my comment, I apologize if it turned out mean-spirited in any way.

Brilliant. It's great to see new takes on navigation and ways to explore large data sets.

Great project. I can appreciate the work put into this.

I built http://colorhits.com a few years ago. another option with a few more features. cross genre color connections and keyword search starting point.

Awesome!

I have a hard time understanding what this did, partially because the page load is so long at this point (so maybe server stress wasn't part of the execution).

When I finally figured out that I was finding albums by album art color, I closed the window.

I'm not sure why this is titled "great execution." There's nothing wrong with the execution, really--but it doesn't strike me as particularly excellent in any regard.

All that said, it's useless to search by album color.

I was confused since I had no idea that "Spiro Disco Ball" is apparently the name of a color (as opposed to the name of a band or an album or something).

nice work! I'm liking the naming of the colors :)

I'm slowly building something similar in my spare time. It's a multi-color search engine for street wear (and perhaps other stuff)

http://www.inthatstyle.com/

I thought this was fun. If it loaded quickly enough, I can imagine spending more time playing around with it. It's not loading reliably for me right now, but I got it to work a few times.

I enjoy an element of randomness in music discovery, and this combines that with beauty, IMO.

The particular cute thing is that they seem to have a name for every color.

I assumed these were like standard Pantone names or something but what do I know. I'm pretty sure they didn't create the names, regardless.

edit: Oh, it's explained when you click on the question mark on the right side of the page. It's from an xkcd color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

As an aside, that post is fascinating.

Doesn't work in the latest version of Chrome (Windows 8 v. 40.0.2214.91), but works in IE.

Interesting concept, but not sure how predominant album color helps me discover music.

Same Chrome version here, Windows 8.1. Works fine. Perhaps it's just that the site's a bit loaded.

Its cool and works, but not useful in any usual sense. I have never and will never choose my music by the main colors of the album artwork.

Interesting work non-the-less

I don't understand why people that say it's not useful or not interesting get downvoted, but the ones that say the opposite, don't. What's the logic in this?

A lot of things on HN aren't useful - there are games and experiments and little fun things all the time. And as someone else in the thread already stated, if you think a submission is uninteresting then not commenting or upvoting it is probably the best way to express that.

Really nice way to discover music. One problem though: The colorpicking works with my touchscreen, but not with my mouse, TP w510..., Chrome

Sorry, neither the idea nor the execution impress me very much.

This seems about as useful as the "random radio" function in every existing music player. Except it is slow and cumbersome to use.

EDIT: Please note this reply was written when the submission title was: "A great execution of a simple idea". The title has since been changed by the 𝐦𝐨de𝐫at𝐨rᶰ𝐬.

As a fan of both music and design, I find it fascinating.

Both the idea and the execution impress me. I can't say it has much of a draw for returning users though. I look at it as a nicely done, fun, weekend hack. Maybe the referrals will send OP a little cash, not much of course.

>Sorry, neither the idea nor the execution impress me very much.

I don't think they created it to impress you. If your reaction is "meh" you can express that just as well by not commenting.

Then whats the point of the voting system?

I think people are taking the GP's comment out of context since the original headline was "Predominant.ly: great execution of a simple idea" (https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/posts/794421357279814) and it has since been shortened.

Given that this was pretty clearly built in rejection of conventional 'usefulness' it's bizarre to see that's the most common criticism ITT

It's only slow because the site's under load. It occasionally goes nice and quick.

Pretty cool! I can't imagine many real uses, but definitely fun to play around with.

Super cool! It would be awesome to see something like this for books and movies, too!

really like the loading spinner, a fun extrapolation

What is it?

Seems like music discovery via the color of the album picture, which I personally don't find to be all that useful. (I know somebody in real life who at least used to organize their DVD collection by color of the box which I find to be equally as useful.)

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