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.
My favorite is definitely Trance Around the World http://trancearoundtheworld.com -- I actually themed the music on this site to kind of fit in a similar flow, I always feel like a productivity robot when listening to TATW
I listen to the "Coding Soundtrack" playlist on Spotify by James Dennis and there's also a programming music room on turntable that I can't remember the name of.
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.
All of the music comes from two json objects, one is 'fast' and the other is 'faster'. Clicking "the last one was sweet" goes back a song, and "gimme the next one cap'n" goes forward a song, from whatever list you're currently playing (fast or faster).
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?
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?
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.
I love this! The only missing is a mini-player theme, like this Chrome app mock-up: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9196433/news.ycombinator.com/ghostl... Clicking on the album cover would pop-up all of the album specific stuff, clicking on the (i) would give you all the "static" stuff.
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. :-)
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.
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.
There are also tons of free podcasts online. Above & Beyond's Trance Around the World is fantastic (2 hours, weekly, it's priceless). 3LAU does one. Last but CERTAINLY not least, Morgan Page puts out some sick beats. He's also really into clean energy lately, he just picked up a Tesla and is getting all kinds of solar panels installed on his house. Morgan Page also does a weekly podcast which I love.
Again, don't mean to degrade the original post I just wanted to pipe in some of the stuff that really helps me get in the zone and jam :)
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)
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http://hybridized.org/
http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com/mix-directory/
Gray Area and Digital Witchcraft were fantastic
http://hypem.com
limbiq frequencies http://tunein.com/radio/Limbik-Frequencies-s2225/
First thing that goes on when I sit down at the computer. Suits me perfectly for hacking away.
Also, the insertion of extra text into my copy of "gimme the next one cap'n" was annoying, though I see its utility.
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
EDIT: P.S. I've been using it all evening and I love the site. Thanks Ryan!
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?
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!
hard rock -> heavy metal -> thrash metal -> speed metal
And for this genre, even Hard & Harder functionality. Hells yea.
My personal collection is a combination of the following:
http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/
http://soundcloud.com/3lau/
http://soundcloud.com/r3hab/
http://soundcloud.com/morganpage/
All #winning. It's also great for running.
There are also tons of free podcasts online. Above & Beyond's Trance Around the World is fantastic (2 hours, weekly, it's priceless). 3LAU does one. Last but CERTAINLY not least, Morgan Page puts out some sick beats. He's also really into clean energy lately, he just picked up a Tesla and is getting all kinds of solar panels installed on his house. Morgan Page also does a weekly podcast which I love.
Again, don't mean to degrade the original post I just wanted to pipe in some of the stuff that really helps me get in the zone and jam :)