New Site: DailyTunes.com

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by pbreit
Are you kidding me? This is a terrible idea! This makes no sense whatsoever. Since the iTMS has virtually all current, wide-release music, this would just be a recommendation site for music in general. This is really lame and I'm surprised so many people think it's anything but.

It links to the iTMS, troll.

 

[arn]

thanks for the congrats and criticism.

I guess I should point out that the most important part of the site are user's recommendation lists.

By maintaining your Music Rec list, you are offering important information to others browsing the songs.

The most obvious point of the site is recommending a song you personally love. Presumably all the songs are "worthy" of a listen... even if your tastes may not cover the entire spectrum.

These individual recommendations aren't necessarily the most important though... while unlikely, even if all 400,000 songs ended up on the site... the beauty will be being able to browse lists and links between songs... that lets you find pockets of interest that hopefully you share.

arn

 

[cc123]

aggregate sorting suggestion

As arn said, its all about users' recommendations. Not only individuals though, but aggregate recommendations. As the site fills up with tons of users recommending tons of songs, i think we'll use the site in two ways -- asking it "what do people like?" and "what do people like me like?" Being able to do refined sorting of most-recommended material will be increasingly important for both types of questions.

It would be great to have the familiar interface of:
Genre>Artist>Album>Song
where you can sort by "most recommended" at any level there (and eventually have weighted recommendations by friends, etc, but that's maybe a ways off...).

so you could ask:
between genres: "what's the most popular (or most recommended) style of music?"
within a genre: "most popular hip hop music?"
within an artist: "most popular jonathan richman song?"
and within a song: "most popular version of 'my favorite things'?"

Great work - looking forward to using it more!
CC

 

[mac15]

A cool feature would be like have users playlist of the day come up ona weekdays. Simliar to macpolls. That'd be cool

 

[azdude]

Wow! Cool! Turns out that what I was going to suggest is already implemented.

I just now noticed the "Tunes" button at the bottom of the everyone's posts.
----------------------------------------------V

 

[jzieske]

Great Idea Arn. Nice to have those links for each person right there too. Thanks.

 

[Flowbee]

So I submitted a song last night with a similar name as one of my earlier recommendations (completely different song, artist, and genre) and it hasn't shown up on the site yet. Are you backlogged with submissions, or do similar titles cause a problem?

Songs:
"La Boheme" by Charles Aznavour (vocal)
and "La Boheme, Act III" by Maria Callas (opera)

EDIT: Ok, I just found the FAQ... I guess it hasn't been 24 hours yet.