Nice work. I would quibble with some of the genre classifications. The game told me that <i>Acperience</i> by Hardfloor is classic trance, when it's quite clearly acid house. It classified <i>Want You</i> by Bearson as future garage, which it clearly isn't. It told me that <i>Porcelain</i> by Moby is "Ambient breaks/Illbient", which isn't a connection I would have made. It also seemed to wrongly categorise a couple of tracks as Hi-NRG, although I missed their names. I don't think that anyone from within the rave scene has ever used the term "breakbeat hardcore"; the Wikipedia article for the genre is totally devoid of references.<p>Personally, I think that a bit of simplification might be in order. A lot of tracks don't neatly fit into any genre and a lot of genres are pedantic labels rather than actual musical movements. A more concise and less contentious set of genres might be more useful to newcomers and less irritating to cratediggers. Learning the difference between Chicago house and Balearic house is very valuable if you're just starting to explore dance music, but I'm not sure there a useful delineation between Euro trance, classic trance, progressive trance and epic trance.<p>Also, a tracklisting at the end of the game would be very useful.
If you want a "classic" internet guide to electronic genres (as in, it was built in flash and has been around forever), as well as an opinionated history lesson, Ishkur's guide is great:<p><a href="http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/" rel="nofollow">http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/</a>
Heyoo HN. Finished this side project of mine during the weekend.
Read more about it on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Hemmingsson/dancemusic.wtf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Hemmingsson/dancemusic.wtf</a><p>Let me know if you have any feedback!
Nice :)<p>155457 points before I ran out of lives (due to ambiguous tracks mostly ;) )<p>A couple things:<p>* There are some typos here and there (in genre names and in the UI)<p>* The timing of the game could be tightened up a little<p>* Would be nice to know how long I have for a given track, and how it affects my score. I was surprised more than once by the track changing from underneath me. (I assume I get more points for quick answers?)<p>* Maybe a non-infinite mode too, like... 10 questions, 3 lives?
This is great, and educational too! After playing quite a few rounds, I noticed I wasn't played any of the more esoteric categories such as '(free)tek(k)no' and 'french house' — seemed to most commonly fall on the bigger categories. Perhaps this is to be representative of the music landscape, but I fear that people won't hear enough of the lesser categories in order to learn from them.<p>I had fun, but one small criticism would be to speed up the time between rounds. The music quiz on the original iPod was a favourite time-waster of mine as a kid, and that was so addictive because it was quick to move to the next song.<p>Finally, if anyone is interested in a video walkthrough to the different electronic genres, this video helped me out immensely a couple of years ago: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4r0MdBQI6U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4r0MdBQI6U</a>
I really like this but 2 things:
1) I really wish there was a pause button.
2) Please notify the user that it is using their YouTube account to play music. My YT history has now blown up with songs, and it felt kind of invasive.
Very cool and I love the idea! I agree with sago that feedback on wrong answers would be super helpful. I'd like a brief description of the genre I guessed and the one it actually was.<p>Also, maybe links to youtube when you post the song title so I can save it for later if I liked it!<p>Also also, maybe a "beginner" option that restricts it to the (say) 20 most common genres. As someone who isn't super into EDM, the fine distinctions are lost on me.
This was super fun. A little bit of feedback:<p>The text telling you what the song was that just played goes away way too fast. It'd be nice if it stayed longer, or if a list built up somewhere to reference later.<p>Also, I may be crazy, and random things happen, but I swear 70% of the correct answers were the #1 option.<p>edit: At 72,000 or so points and haven't seen #4 show up as the correct answer.
...and on the very first question this site makes the classic mistake of calling 2010's brostep scene (in this case, Pendulum) "dubstep".<p>Dubstep is a 00s dark and slow genre, unlistenable without frequencies below 150 Hz, from classic labels like Deep Medi Musik, Hyperdub, Tectonic, Tempa and others. Skrillex, Pendulum (which, btw, are more drum and bass influenced), Knife Party and other, mostly american, loud EDM artists have evolved from original dubstep, but have a very different sound.<p>I'm not trying to be elitist, and I don't think that one kind of music can be objectively better than other (only in my own personal view, which is of no consequence to other people). But calling two very different things with one word is just bad for communication.
I was expecting this to mess up the lesser known styles (wouldn't be the first time I see a list of 'all' electronic music clearly written by someone who clearly only knows house in all it's variations and then just mentions there's also techno and dnb) but this one is pretty good and accurate actually.<p>One thing I wonder: how were the names chosen? E.g. I know what's meant with '(free)tek(k)no' and 'hardcore techno/rave' but I don't think anyone actually calls it like that. At least not around here. We use names like tek/hardcore/rave and that's 3 quite different genres. Maybe the names were picked to reflect a mix of what people call it?
That's very cool! As a nascent metalhead, I'd love to see a clone of this for that genre - I often have trouble telling my prog metal from my power metal.
Why does this kick my CPU into high gear, and suck the battery life out of my laptop? This is a serous drawback to what is an otherwise fun idea. I keep playing it, but man it's a serious heat generator to the point that I'm joking that I must be mining coins for the site to make money.
I almost exclusively listen to electronic music, but at least one of the choices was always a genre I haven't heard of. For example, I couldn't guess that Huoratron was "Fidget House / Complextro" though I have listened to him for years.<p>The game was fun though, only a tad slow to progress.
Nice, but classifications can be better. The Deep House track wasn't really exemplary IMO :) Then you hear Larry Heard - Can You Feel It which is classified as Chicago/Garage house...
This is great fun, and aptly named: Dancemusic WTF. I find aspect of the seemingly infinite genres in electronic music very much WTF. Long ago i resorted to just call it all Techno (or "Dance music" if the mood strikes) and I use only two sub genres - tunes I like, and tunes I do not like. How can one keep up?
Cool, but frustratingly slow.<p>Also what's the point of genres like "French House" and "Detroit Techno" etc. These genres are ridiculous to the point where it sounds like satire.