[joshmn]

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

[w4]

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!).

[jeffbr13]

> "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

[wyclif]

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.

[joshmn]

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.

[hack_edu]

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.

[joshmn]

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 :)

[glomph]

Just listen2dance?

[rbobby]

Listen2ItAll

[timthimmaiah]

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.

[joshmn]

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.

[ufmace]

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.

[dsl]

This is AWESOME.

[shpx]

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

[joshmn]

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.

[copperx]

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

[rnbrady]

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

[joshmn]

I'm glad.

[mjhagen]

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

[joshmn]

Could you shoot me a mail? [e-mail] :)

[marlin]

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

[cube_yellow]

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.

[joshmn]

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

Evidently, they are not always accurate. :(