* Cool idea, I'll definitely use this if the quality of music is high.
* I agree with the comments that having my password show up in the clear is bad. It surprised me. And if I sign in, then hit "log out" before closing the tab, it makes the login form viewable with my password still there. Very bad. While you figure out another solution, can you at least add autocomplete="off" to the <input> tag so that my browser definitely won't remember it?
* This does not work on my HTC Droid Incredible. When it loads there's no song title or artist like there is when I load it on my computer. Then I can hit "Next" to make a song title appear, but it doesn't play.
* How do you get artists? I see the "upload", but how did you get the initial artists, and do you have any plans to incentivize artists to sign up? (You may not need it, a lot of indie bands just like sharing their music, especially if they're not well-known.)
Hi jackowayed, at the moment android has trouble with HTML5, so we are building an android app. Our goal is to make it super easy to listen to music on any device. We're also working on an iphone app.
The clearing of passwords after login must have slipped by our testing, thank you for pointing that out. [update: autocomplete has just been turned off]
Our initial set of music was scraped from various indie blogs, but in the future we hope to get most of our music from uploads.
We are thinking of some ways to help artists make money off their music. We may offer high-quality downloads to listeners (and pay artists when the songs are bought). This would be for artist uploads only.
You already offer high-quality downloads, to anyone who uses a web inspector to look at your <audio> element's current src attribute! A Chrome / Safari extension would probably make it a one-click process.
Which (speaking as a musician) I think I'm okay with; if you're going to go to that much trouble to swipe it, my gut says you weren't going to be a paying customer to begin with.
We don't make any money at the moment. Only artist music uploaded directly to mixest would be available for high quality* paid download. That's the idea anyway.
Edit: *High Quality flac or 320kbps mp3. For the audiophiles our there!
Hm, I'm not sure about the terms of the CC non-commercial license, but as an endeavor that hopes to make money, I think you may count as "commercial" anyway.
But the music was all CC licensed at least (or similar)?
It appears I could upload some obscure music to the site via the Upload tab. I assume that your team has to vet that the music I upload is 1) what i say it is and 2) that covered by a CC license.
Can you play back non-CC music you 'own' because you're streaming it (ala a radio station) rather than allowing user's download it?
I love the site, but it seems scary having something like this in today's litigious world.
* Cool idea, I'll definitely use this if the quality of music is high.
* I agree with the comments that having my password show up in the clear is bad. It surprised me. And if I sign in, then hit "log out" before closing the tab, it makes the login form viewable with my password still there. Very bad. While you figure out another solution, can you at least add autocomplete="off" to the <input> tag so that my browser definitely won't remember it?
* This does not work on my HTC Droid Incredible. When it loads there's no song title or artist like there is when I load it on my computer. Then I can hit "Next" to make a song title appear, but it doesn't play.
* How do you get artists? I see the "upload", but how did you get the initial artists, and do you have any plans to incentivize artists to sign up? (You may not need it, a lot of indie bands just like sharing their music, especially if they're not well-known.)