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[theswedebeat]

Our Shuffler.fm Exclusive Mix #001 // The Swede Beat - DISKOTEK April 23, 2012 1. World Tour - Believe 2. Theo Berndt - Supersized (David Borkmann Remix) 3. Azure blue - Catcher in The Rye (Harald Björk Remix) 4. Holiday for strings - Unwilling/Not Able Dance Remix 5. The Tough Alliance - Silly Crimes 6. Lilla Sällskapet - Morgonen Efter 7. Niki & The Dove - Mother Project (Goldroom Remix) 8. Caviare Days - The Awakening (Name in Lights Remix) 9. Tight Silk - Ain't Gonna Get Me Dreamin' 10. Rebel Rebel - Love Songs 11. Kornél Kovács - Down Since '92 12. Jonas Rathsman - Tobago

[allfatherblack]

Review/ Shuffler.fm Website

It's hard to find good music from new artists, and sometimes it's harder yet to find tools to help you do that. Shuffler.fm is just such a service and it certainly accomplishes what it's set out to do, and that is genuinely connect audiophiles to what matters most; the music. The main page greets you with a 6x3 grid of genres to choose from (that can be alternated for up to 108 options) and little else. Choose something and it will immediately take you to a random music blog and play a song mentioned on that blog in an unobtrusive bar on top of the page (from which you can pause and skip as well). Once it's finished, you are automatically taken to the next song and website. So while you listen to something new, you also get a unique perspective on it from an independent source. It's an experience whose authenticity cannot likely be matched elsewhere.

The song collection is superb and there are far more offerings from independent artists than otherwise. Unfortunately the blogs that accompany them is where Shuffler sometimes fails to deliver, and it's not uncommon to be taken to one that has nothing to offer but a link to the track that is already playing for you. There are also a few sites that may contain questionable content or that are just plain eye sores and you may not appreciate being torn from what you're reading if a song ends before you finish, but these complaints really are minor nuisances considering what the service has to offer.

Shuffler.fm is an extremely effective facility for real fans of new music and the culture that surrounds it. With a little more quality control on the blogs and some additional networking features, it might even become close enough to perfect. But as it stands, it's already pretty close.

[voronianski]

Vote for Streamlikes - hack entry for Node Knockout 2013 competition

Last weekend I participated in Node Knockout online hackathon. The voting is currently going on, so I would like to present my small hack here.

Streamlikes was planned as a radio for recent popular tracks and mixes of your favorite bands and artists. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to finish everything, but it already works in a way by getting likes from Facebook Graph API, and streaming shuffler.fm tracks suggestions with HTML5 Web Audio API.

I suppose that all technical details and some inputs about the competition itself will be put in a separate article soon. So keep in touch!

And please vote for Streamlikes simply by clicking the button at the bottom of the page! Thanks! ;)

UPDATE (Dec 14, 2013): Finally competition is over and winners announced! My entry finished in Top 100 overall and took 13th and 14th place in Solo and Design categories respectively. Thanks everyone who was voting for Streamlikes! For now I won't proceed with app's development because of the lack of time and it will present on Joyent's competition server as long as it will be possible.

[inspired-ui]

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