Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Playlistr
3 comments
You need a tagline. My first reaction was "what does this do? something about music?". Obviously with more effort I was able to figure it out.
"Custom playlists in 3 steps" would do it.
Also your "Generate Playlist" button doesn't immediately read as a button. See this article to see what I mean: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-bu...
"Custom playlists in 3 steps" would do it.
Also your "Generate Playlist" button doesn't immediately read as a button. See this article to see what I mean: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-bu...
Here's another good article on button design:
http://www.getelastic.com/cta-size/
Good effort sli! I was all set to hear some drum n bass when I clicked Generate playlist. But was surprised when Winamp popped up! I had even forgotten I had it on my computer.
I think you should have an embedded music player. There are tons of free swf's out there.
It's good that you've identified a problem - managing playlists of internet radio stations - but it's not clear what your proposed solution is.
Keep us posted on the developments.
I think you should have an embedded music player. There are tons of free swf's out there.
It's good that you've identified a problem - managing playlists of internet radio stations - but it's not clear what your proposed solution is.
Keep us posted on the developments.
The idea is you visit Playlistr once in a while and download an updated version of your playlist, in case the station has added and removed servers. It will be a bit more user-friendly when it starts remembering the stations you've selected, which will reduce the workflow to a mere:
1. Visit Playlistr
2. Click 'Generate' button
I'm on a machine without sound at the moment, so I didn't get a chance to try the resulting playlist, but the interface is very easy to understand, and useful to throw together quickly.
Are you going to extend it to other genres later on? Since this is sending a standard m3u file, would it work on the iphone?
Sounds like a fun app.
Are you going to extend it to other genres later on? Since this is sending a standard m3u file, would it work on the iphone?
Sounds like a fun app.
Actually, my original plan was to organize the stations by genre. But after fleshing out the idea a little more, it started to seem either a bit subjective, or way too generalized. For example: do I group electronic into breaks, dubstep, house, trance, etc? Or put it all under electronic? In the end, it was easier to organize by sources.
New stations will be coming once I finish the Google account and cache support.
New stations will be coming once I finish the Google account and cache support.
It's (obviously) lacking in the polish department, and the current selection of stations is small (for development purposes). Planned features include Google account support for saving your selected stations, caching of stream URLs for each station to speed things up a bit, and more output formats.
http://playlistr.appspot.com