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I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

When listening to soundcloud I use this bookmark to turn off comments on the page:

   javascript:(function(){$("a[class='comments-toggle']").click();})();

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Do you have any additional filters on your sources, or are you straight-up playing the streams as-is?

I'd suggest putting in min/max song lengths (to strip out the 2min previews of tracks that sometimes get posted). Although I think your sources are clean enough to handle that. You probably want a 15 min maximum to skip over mixes that sometimes get posted (or better yet, give a playlist for listening to continuous mixes)

If the soundcloud api provides favourites you could use that as an input as well.

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You could pretty much create a simple version of last.fm by using a "similar artists search" and then mutiplexing the individual soundcloud pages for artists.

So you could have a "sounds like Skrillex", "sounds like High Rankin", "sounds like Knife Party" etc where all it does is randomly play tracks from similar artists.

yeah man, its all about catering to the user, why bother going to all these different websites when you get it all rolled into a delicious efficient piece of sushi that is turnchannel?

secondly, i think the devs are going to make a playlist style feature or something, along with a volume slider, so users can discover all this new music, save it to a playlist in a user-friendly environment with community aspects such as comments on tracks and the ability to share with simplicity ....

improving on old processes, why invent the wheel bro?

Essentially yes

There is nothing underground about Tech-house unfortunately.

6ft under would be a blessing though.

I got the link off here a while ago, and listen to earbits for electronic music. earbits.com has around 40 different sub-genres of electronic music (they also have non-electronic genres with tons of sub-genres as well).

woah, we got ourselves a hipster here... man, if the devs were to put the undergound music here then it wouldn't be undergound anymore and you would probably boycott or ddos the site so no one else could listen to your precious dublectrance rahouse mixes ...

EMs are great, and I've listened to ~30 of them, but I feel like I'm 'out' of mixes to listen to given what my tastes are. My tastes are definitely pretty diverse, too.

I've been hitting youtube for mixes, and you'd be pleasantly surprised at the quality. Goingquantum is very good.

Essential mixes are great but I still buy a lot of single tracks (from Beatport) and create my own playlists in iTunes. Occasionally I find myself listening to single tracks (usually on YouTube) of newly released stuff I like.

Currently using pre curated tracks from http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic

I agree the genres are off. Will be working on improving them.

THIS!

I like the project though. Real initiative here, but also great advice that must be heeded.

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are sockpuppet accounts frowned upon around here?

talking about what the devs are planning and also giving rave reviews in the same thread, huh?

Glad you are enjoying it.

I am planning on expanding the genres in the near future.

Good to know. I will add a volume adjuster.

Never heard of di.fm. Thanks for the share!

Yeah I did.

HTML5 ftw! In the workings.

its just a proof of concept and i think the devs are aiming to dump tons of content (that can be accessed within license) into the sleek and efficient usability of turnchannel.

there is a tweet/share on FB that is how i track the tunes im like 'holy smokes' too until the playlist feature is released

Soundcloud

All music is produced by independent artists and streamed off of soundcloud.