Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

[ryanio]

I'm a college student with a bit too much time this summer. Thought of this site on a plane ride a few months ago and finally decided to put it together, let me know what you think! Should be great coding music.

[wging]

Does "gimme the next one cap'n" just advance to the next song, or is there some Pandora-type 'I hate this song, never play it' thing going on? Presumably the former but thought I'd ask.

Also, the insertion of extra text into my copy of "gimme the next one cap'n" was annoying, though I see its utility.

[chrischen]

Do you know any other sources of coding music?

[paulnelligan]

No offence, but it's a bit rubbish. How this got 174 upvotes is beyond me.

Anyway, Here's my weekend project on the SC api, which we won the Amsterdam Music Hack day SC api prize with:

http://soundfluence.com

[Robin_Message]

This looks great, but unfortunately it doesn't actually play for me. Soundcloud works fine for me (Chromium on Ubuntu), any reason why it wouldn't play?

[josscrowcroft]

Fantastic. If this something you could write about or open-source? I'd love to mashup a version for jazz, soul. funk, etc.

[j45]

I'm going to see how long I can leave it running before/if I tire of it

[brianbreslin]

Ryan if you'd like an internship hacking on stuff, let me know.

[jessedhillon]

Can you explain what it is?

From what I can tell, there is a "Fast" playlist and a "Faster" playlist of music (which you've selected) to listen to when working, because the songs are upbeat I presume. So the play button plays the music, and do the Fast/Faster buttons switch between the two lists?

Or is that not it at all?

[thegyppo]

I'm assuming this is BPM, if you want something a bit harder. IMO needs an option for ambient/downtempo stuff I personally find it hard to get stuff done to dance music.

[mikeleeorg]

I'm more a fan of rock and metal, but I dig the Fast & Faster functionality. It would be awesome to have that for a rock & metal playlist:

hard rock -> heavy metal -> thrash metal -> speed metal

And for this genre, even Hard & Harder functionality. Hells yea.

[bstar77]

I'm surprised at how little Rock/Metal music is represented on Soundcloud. I have several songs I recorded years ago that get virtually no views on Soundcloud, most likely because they are tagged as rock/metal tracks. Seems like these bands are more content with MySpace than experimenting on Soundcloud.

[mmcdan]

Great Job. I viewed this just because I like seeing what people on HN are working on. Then 1 hour later, I realized that the music was still playing and I was in a state of flow with the work I was doing. This surprised me because I don't normally enjoy this type of music.

Definitely put "slow", "medium" categories on there. Also, maybe filter out the songs that do those jarring breakbeats since those break the state of flow.

[cellis]

Good stuff man, I like what I hear so far! What type of algorithms are you using to choose what to play?

[ajtaylor]

Nice work! I'd love to see the addition of a volume control. With my headphones, even at the lowest volume level above mute, the music is still louder than I'd like.

This seems to be a common issue for me with a lot of the embedded music players.

[webjunkie]

Same issue for me! Unusable without volume control.

[johnnyg]

I'm not sure if you just happened to hit some good songs or what, but I like this a good deal, am using it this evening and plan on doing so in future. My tired old play lists thank you. :-)

[baruch]

I've used soundcloud for the past few weeks for background programming music and the main issue I had was the need to find the next artist with enough songs for the next session.

Thanks for saving me time!

[samstave]

Dear god; PLEASE MAKE AN ELECTROSWING version/channel.

Like one that plays through Parov Stelar, Caravan Palace etc...

This is awesome!

This is the next Pandora

Just noticed: REQUIRES a volume slider. Also a Download link.

[koala_advert]

A download link for each song? You can get them via a browser add-on like DownloadHelper for Firefox.

[medell]

+1 for Parov Stelar & Belleruche. Check out 8tracks for some ElectroSwing playlists.

[sekm]

The interface is nice and I like the responsiveness of it all. Could you briefly describe the technology/infrastructure stack you used?

[j45]

This is great, I've wanted something like this for a long time, wish I could upvote it a hundred times ;)

If you don't mind doing a blog post on how you found and picked all the music it would be interesting to see how this came together!

[why-el]

A feature to save the songs will be great. I know that I can go back to SoundCloud when clicking on a song but its a hassle so far. So how about adding a small profile? Otherwise excellent idea.

[fernholz]

I want the ability to choose genre - Trance is ok sometimes, but I like to be able to switch it up. Should be an easy adjustment. Check the input, sanitize, pass to your javascript api call.

[treelovinhippie]

Might want to fix your like button. I had to click again to confirm posting to my wall (not sure if new Facebook feature or because you don't have any Facebook meta tags on the site)

[seven800]

What would be cool is if this hooked into your github account or similar and was able to measure what effect music actually has on productivity (assuming a causal relationship).

[huge_asshole]

this music is terrible. good job in getting it done though

[bahularora]

really ? I am liking what I am hearing.

[stevencorona]

Love it. Would love a way to play it outside of the browser. I guess I could pop it open in a Fluid window, though.

[DeepDuh]

I like the idea, not so much the music though. My recommendation for getting work done music: soma.fm.

[AnthonyJoseph]

Do one for mashups similar to Kap Slap's spring break mix, and you can have my first born.