Show HN: The Daily Drop – Discover the Newest EDM Tracks

[erader]

Great layout and design, but honestly how is this much different than Soundcloud? The little things like the history and play queue feature are great, but what would make me want to prefer this to SC, in which I've already curated a big list of people/labels/etc to follow and give me new music all the time? In comparison, this might broaden my horizon every once in a while, but also runs the risk of giving me a lot of tracks I'm not interested in. I think it's going to be important that in the future the user is given some more control and selectivity (in addition to some more social components). Good work.

Edit: punctuation

[davbai]

Thanks checking it out and for your comments! So I definitely don't see this as really replacing Soundclound (also considering that only SC songs are supported ATM so its a subset of whats available on SC). Like you said lots of people out there use SC and have a nice stream of music based on the artists/labels/whatever they follow. This is more for aimmed at discovery and solve a pain point that I had and I don't think the trending sections for EDM in SC is that good.

While I normally use the usual SC/Spotify to listen to things I already know about, there wasn't a good way for me of finding new and perhaps lesser known remixes/artists/tracks. I normally checked a number of blogs manually and that became a hassle. Especially when you can't "play through" the songs on a blog in sequential order because it stops after each song. So I'm aggregating the postings from a number of blogs and other sources together so I can just check one source, play the newest songs, and save the ones I like.

I think you hit the spot when you said broaden [your] horizon, thats definitely one of the key points. The goal is that the feed in The Daily Drop is more varied than your personal SC stream so hopefully you find some new artists/tracks to follow/favorite. And you're also right, I myself also run into songs I just don't like and that I just skip. When building it I tried to add the features that I wanted and what it ended up being was a different features from services that I liked but didn't have in one app (aggregation from Hypem, queue/history from Spotify, shuffle from Spotify/SC, remixes found on SC vs 'mainstream' on Spotify, etc.).

The social and control components are definitely coming in the future when I have the time that will hopefully make it a more compelling product. As well as other genre within the music. (I'm a big hip hop fan too!)

[iamdave]

Hey this is rad, I LOVE the UI and love that I have a source dedicated to EDM without having to sift through other services.

The only dealbreaker I have are the lack of keyboard shortcuts, I imagine this is on the roadmap? For ex my keyboard has a play/pause button that works globally-even in browser. Similarly, if I'm on the tab with playing media-spacebar pauses and plays respectively.

Otherwise, bookmarked and jamming now :)

[shrig94]

This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)

[davbai]

I don't want to say my idea is 100% unique but I did start this back in the fall initially, before thedrop.club launched. I will say that the drop.club did inspire me to polish, finish and actually try and launch it.

[bnejad]

Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.

[cubecul]

This is cool! I dig this a lot. I personally suck at finding music, and one of my complaints with SC was that I really didn't know what the workflow was like to discover music there. Maybe I just haven't used it enough. In any case, this seems like a great way to just put stuff I might like in one place and leave me to explore.

One quick thing: any plans to change the default user name that's assigned after FB login?

[panamafrank]

Go to a record store, pick at random a few from the 'news' section, listen and repeat until you have a few you reckon go together. Then buy them, research the artists involved on Discogs, go see them play. Do this weekly for a few years.

Those guys behind the counter started kinda like that as did any DJ worth his/her salt, and honestly I don't think there's a better way of music discovery. Having something physically there, staring at you reminding you that you forked out cash for it, something you come back to again and again forms an authentic experience that can only be replicated in part by digital.

Check out stores like Hardwax, Space Hall, Kristina records, Naminohana, honest jons or whatever is local to you. Look up the event listings in Resident Advisor and grep the artist names. Actually leave the house. :)

[cwal37]

I hear you on feeling like I suck at music discovery. I've always kind of coasted off of what friends and family find. Recently one of my brothers launched a sort of music discovery/contest site-thing[1], and while I'm not totally certain about everything they're doing, I have found a lot of interesting tracks looking through their Discover tab. You might find it worth checking out.

[1] http://nostrajamus.com/#/

EDIT: And I believe you can view playlists from archived contests if you register, so you can focus the discovery down more to your liking.

[davbai]

Yes! I totally agree with your point of SC music discovery. I couldn't find a workflow that fit/worked. Thanks for checking it out.

And in regards to the FB name, there should be a way. If you go under settings (gear icon) in the upper right, it should lead to a drop down where you can go to your settings and change your username. Let me know if this doesn't work for some reason.

[OvidNaso]

Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wrt taste:(time for discovery) is Digitially Imported Preimum that works perfectly with Clementine (or any player for that matter).

[petercooper]

Would love something like this for hip hop as in my experience it's mostly over the top blogs and mixtape sites.

[philco]

How's this different than the drop? Is this just a ripoff (name and all)?

[davbai]

thedrop.club is more community focused (user submission, comments, upvotes, etc) while this is more on just pure aggregation. You can optionally submit tracks but its a more automated way and doesn't require people to sign up for there to be content.

[amdixon]

Nice work, how long did it take you to build? Just a note — the pause/play sequence resets the track to the beginning instead of starting it from where you paused (chrome 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit))

[davbai]

Thanks! Started this originally back in the fall of last year some time. Completely threw away all the front end code of that and picked up the project again maybe ~1.5 months ago? Been mostly weekends and some weekday nights. And thanks for reporting the issue, I'll look into it.

[mVChr]

Useful aggregator and time-saver for voracious seekers of new jams. Having more than just EDM along with a filter by genre option would be nice for those of us who like DnB, Techno, Trap, etc.

[alfg]

Great project and I love the UI! I was actually just looking for an EDM discovery/explore app like this just yesterday. Bookmarked. :)

Any information on the technology stack?

[davbai]

Frontend is Angular and Bootstrap, backend I use Parse for account/playlist management and its hosted on Heroku.

[g8oz]

I wish I could tell one EDM track apart from another.

[juliangoldsmith]

The mainstream stuff is pretty homogeneous, but it gets pretty interesting when you get into the lesser-known stuff.

[SeoxyS]

This is awesome. Future feature ideas: Would love a daily email of new tracks & a way to add them to a Spotify playlist.

[driverdan]

Any plans on adding subgenres? Without good filtering I suspect I'll end up disliking a lot of the content.

[davbai]

I would love to, any suggestion on how to do this? Problem is, the genre field provided by Soundcloud is not consistent (they can pretty much write whatever they want for the genre). Maybe users can tag songs with the subgenre they think that fits?

[ChristianBundy]

Where can I file a bug? I'd love to be able to view the source on Github and create an issue.

[davbai]

For now you can just send any issues to [e-mail]

Thanks!

[joshmn]

I built listen2edm.com last summer in about 4 days, though I never even did anything to really market or "release" it. It scraped new tracks from 15 different blogs to gather its content. If anyone finds this interesting, maybe I'll continue working on it.