Seems like music discovery via the color of the album picture, which I personally don't find to be all that useful. (I know somebody in real life who at least used to organize their DVD collection by color of the box which I find to be equally as useful.)
Sorry, neither the idea nor the execution impress me very much.
This seems about as useful as the "random radio" function in every existing music player. Except it is slow and cumbersome to use.
EDIT: Please note this reply was written when the submission title was: "A great execution of a simple idea". The title has since been changed by the 𝐦𝐨de𝐫at𝐨rᶰ𝐬.
Both the idea and the execution impress me. I can't say it has much of a draw for returning users though. I look at it as a nicely done, fun, weekend hack. Maybe the referrals will send OP a little cash, not much of course.
I think people are taking the GP's comment out of context since the original headline was "Predominant.ly: great execution of a simple idea" (https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/posts/794421357279814) and it has since been shortened.
I have a hard time understanding what this did, partially because the page load is so long at this point (so maybe server stress wasn't part of the execution).
When I finally figured out that I was finding albums by album art color, I closed the window.
I'm not sure why this is titled "great execution." There's nothing wrong with the execution, really--but it doesn't strike me as particularly excellent in any regard.
All that said, it's useless to search by album color.
I was confused since I had no idea that "Spiro Disco Ball" is apparently the name of a color (as opposed to the name of a band or an album or something).
I thought this was fun. If it loaded quickly enough, I can imagine spending more time playing around with it. It's not loading reliably for me right now, but I got it to work a few times.
I enjoy an element of randomness in music discovery, and this combines that with beauty, IMO.
The page load time is currently pretty good. I love the idea. I chose pink and got some nice looking donna summers album. Really cool. I am 29 and used to buy cds on artwork merit.
The simple idea of admiring art is what i like. clicking the itunes button is not something i would do.
I don't understand why people that say it's not useful or not interesting get downvoted, but the ones that say the opposite, don't. What's the logic in this?
A lot of things on HN aren't useful - there are games and experiments and little fun things all the time. And as someone else in the thread already stated, if you think a submission is uninteresting then not commenting or upvoting it is probably the best way to express that.
Couldn't you have omitted the last two sentences, which amount to a polite version of "we've already made this and theirs only looks nicer because they spent more time?"
I suppose I could have. I've no idea how much time they spent, perhaps it was a quick hack too. It was just unexpected to see someone else's implementation of the same idea, so it made me laugh at the strange coincidences of life in general. Certainly I meant nothing ill by my comment, I apologize if it turned out mean-spirited in any way.
Great project. I can appreciate the work put into this.
I built http://colorhits.com a few years ago.
another option with a few more features. cross genre color connections and keyword search starting point.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 86.2 ms ] threadInteresting concept, but not sure how predominant album color helps me discover music.
This seems about as useful as the "random radio" function in every existing music player. Except it is slow and cumbersome to use.
EDIT: Please note this reply was written when the submission title was: "A great execution of a simple idea". The title has since been changed by the 𝐦𝐨de𝐫at𝐨rᶰ𝐬.
I don't think they created it to impress you. If your reaction is "meh" you can express that just as well by not commenting.
When I finally figured out that I was finding albums by album art color, I closed the window.
I'm not sure why this is titled "great execution." There's nothing wrong with the execution, really--but it doesn't strike me as particularly excellent in any regard.
All that said, it's useless to search by album color.
Thank goodness we have you here to share these revelatory insights.
I enjoy an element of randomness in music discovery, and this combines that with beauty, IMO.
The simple idea of admiring art is what i like. clicking the itunes button is not something i would do.
Interesting work non-the-less
I guess there's nothing new under the sun :)
Their design looks a bit nicer, but I am going to guess they spent more than 24 hours on it as well.
edit: Oh, it's explained when you click on the question mark on the right side of the page. It's from an xkcd color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
I'm slowly building something similar in my spare time. It's a multi-color search engine for street wear (and perhaps other stuff)
http://www.inthatstyle.com/
I built http://colorhits.com a few years ago. another option with a few more features. cross genre color connections and keyword search starting point.