[tmoravec]

Love to see this! As a classical music fan, I'm frustrated by how difficult it is to find good quality music online.

Here's a couple of ideas how to improve the tool:

* Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music).

* I'm missing interprets. Search for "Karajan" yields nothing, yet Karajan is a super important figure in classical music. The same for the orchestras, string quartets, etc.

* Some people care about record labels, too. For example, I'd like to search specifically for DG, Decca and similar.

* I understand that the world of classical music is enormous and you'll never get all music. Improving the library will be an ongoing challenge. For example, there is Dvorak's Piano Quintet no. 2, but no. 1 is not present.

* I'm not sure I understand the UI. What belongs to the purple are at the top and what belongs to the white area below?

I might come up with more ideas later.

Hope this does not sound derisive, my points are just suggestions about how to take the tool further. It's fantastic that someone is working on this! Fingers crossed and keep up the great job!

[ClassicalmOnly]

Thank you! I am really glad you like it

> Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al

I am planning to do that. However, Youtube will remain the default. I guess that Spotify has some limitiations (must be loggenot in, limitations outside the US, I doubt that many obscure works have recordings)

> missing interprets. Search for "Karajan" yields nothing The search currently works for composers only. But it will expanded soon to musicians so you can see all recordings of a certain musician.

> Some people care about record labels, too. For example, I'd like to search specifically for DG, Decca and similar

This also shall be ready so you can filter recordings also by label. This is really a priority on my todo list

> I'm not sure I understand the UI. What belongs to the purple are at the top and what belongs to the white area below?

You mean inside composer/ work pages? The first one contains main info about the composer/work and some quick links to listen (top composer works - top genre works)/see work lists

> Hope this does not sound derisive, my points are just suggestions about how to take the tool further. It's fantastic that someone is working on this! Fingers crossed and keep up the great job!

Not at all, that's what Show HN is for! I am really happy that you like it

[voicedYoda]

> “Karajan” Karajan is a conductor. Will conductors get looped in as well? Or will they be considered “Performers” as well?

[ClassicalmOnly]

Yes, conductors and any kind of musicians will have a unified performer page or at least tag page that containes all their recordings. Since conductors can be players at some performances. Also soloists can be conductors which happens frequently for classical era concertos.

[nicky0]

The Spotify classical catalogue is pretty deep. Also it is very much international - it being a Swedish company.

[dmbaggett]

Adding to the comment about links to other services, I'm a big fan of Classical Archives as well, so links to their content would be great. Subscription is about $100/year and they have a huge amount of stuff.

https://www.classicalarchives.com/

[peatmoss]

> Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music).

Does Deezer support gapless (not cross-faded) playback? Because as far as I can tell, most of the streaming services miss the mark dramatically here. It’s definitely most painful when listening to classical music to have what should have been a seemless transition from one movement to the next have a jarring stop.

[tmoravec]

It doesn't and you are right that it's sometimes uncomfortable and jarring. TBH it doesn't seem to me like the biggest problem, though. It could be the music I listen to the most, but the movements or parts are usually separated by silence anyway.

[terminalcommand]

I do not know about deeper but Spotify offers gapless playback. One can listen a symphony without interrupts.

The problem with spotify is that i cannot search by label. I am new to classical music and sticking to a quality label helps a lot.

[filleokus]

OT but:

Regarding searching for labels, you can actually do that: https://news.spotify.com/se/2009/05/20/spotify-0315-with-lab...

It’s just a bit cumbersome, and not so easy to find the exact name of the label stored in the database. I think you can use the API to find the (exact) name of the label assigned for a particular song.

[terminalcommand]

I did not know about this functionality, thanks for pointing out.

BTW: does anyone know anything about blog.explodingads.com, it seems to be reposting HN comments and then using the comments to comment on other sites.

I saw the reference on the link you mentioned.