Show HN: My weekend project using the Soundcloud API

I'm a college student with a bit too much time this summer. Thought of this site on a plane ride a few months ago and finally decided to put it together, let me know what you think! Should be great coding music.

Can you explain what it is?<p>From what I can tell, there is a "Fast" playlist and a "Faster" playlist of music (which you've selected) to listen to when working, because the songs are upbeat I presume. So the play button plays the music, and do the Fast/Faster buttons switch between the two lists?<p>Or is that not it at all?

I'm more a fan of rock and metal, but I dig the Fast &#38; Faster functionality. It would be awesome to have that for a rock &#38; metal playlist:<p>hard rock -&#62; heavy metal -&#62; thrash metal -&#62; speed metal<p>And for this genre, even Hard &#38; Harder functionality. Hells yea.

Great Job. I viewed this just because I like seeing what people on HN are working on. Then 1 hour later, I realized that the music was still playing and I was in a state of flow with the work I was doing. This surprised me because I don't normally enjoy this type of music.<p>Definitely put "slow", "medium" categories on there. Also, maybe filter out the songs that do those jarring breakbeats since those break the state of flow.

Good stuff man, I like what I hear so far! What type of algorithms are you using to choose what to play?

Nice work! I'd love to see the addition of a volume control. With my headphones, even at the lowest volume level above mute, the music is still louder than I'd like.<p>This seems to be a common issue for me with a lot of the embedded music players.

I'm not sure if you just happened to hit some good songs or what, but I like this a good deal, am using it this evening and plan on doing so in future. My tired old play lists thank you. :-)

I've used soundcloud for the past few weeks for background programming music and the main issue I had was the need to find the next artist with enough songs for the next session.<p>Thanks for saving me time!

Dear god; PLEASE MAKE AN ELECTROSWING version/channel.<p>Like one that plays through Parov Stelar, Caravan Palace etc...<p>This is awesome!<p>This is the next Pandora<p>Just noticed: REQUIRES a volume slider. Also a Download link.

The interface is nice and I like the responsiveness of it all. Could you briefly describe the technology/infrastructure stack you used?

This is great, I've wanted something like this for a long time, wish I could upvote it a hundred times ;)<p>If you don't mind doing a blog post on how you found and picked all the music it would be interesting to see how this came together!

A feature to save the songs will be great. I know that I can go back to SoundCloud when clicking on a song but its a hassle so far. So how about adding a small profile? Otherwise excellent idea.

I want the ability to choose genre - Trance is ok sometimes, but I like to be able to switch it up. Should be an easy adjustment. Check the input, sanitize, pass to your javascript api call.

Might want to fix your like button. I had to click again to confirm posting to my wall (not sure if new Facebook feature or because you don't have any Facebook meta tags on the site)

What would be cool is if this hooked into your github account or similar and was able to measure what effect music actually has on productivity (assuming a causal relationship).

this music is terrible. good job in getting it done though

Love it. Would love a way to play it outside of the browser. I guess I could pop it open in a Fluid window, though.

I like the idea, not so much the music though. My recommendation for getting work done music: soma.fm.

Do one for mashups similar to Kap Slap's spring break mix, and you can have my first born.

This is awesome! If you're in San Francisco (or next time you're here) I owe you a beer.

This sadly doesn't make me want to code, it makes me want to compose music. Curses!

been looking for something like this! Needs more collections and more options!

I like the minimalist design but I think a volume slider would be nice!

If it chose well based on existing SC favorites it could be great.

I had this same idea! Great job! I look forward to using it!

Great pickmeup for this morning, in Moscow, Russia. Thanks!

Love it. I was looking recently for music for work.

Awesome! Have my background music for the day!

Any chance of a favicon that isn't pure black?

it would be great (and probably trivially easy) if it included a button to add the song to your soundcloud faves.

Nice work. Definitely going to use this.

Btw, why does not the ex.fm plugin show?

this is great! Thank you. Have a lot of work to get done today, this is going to help :)

Where do you get the music from?

console.fm (500 Startups) is based on the same idea. Good stuff.

very nice, but need a version without Flash.

nice work!! cool weekend project to do.

Love it.

It doesn't support IE 9. Fail.<p>I remember when it was fashionable for "enterprises" to make IE-only sites circa 2000.<p>Now it's fashionable for "startups" to make sites that don't work with IE. It's every bit as short-sighted.<p>If you use the right DOCTYPE, IE 9 complies with standards well. It's a decent web browser, and very fast for day-to-day browsing. The only thing wrong with it is I occasionally run into sites like this run by people who discriminate against IE users.<p>I don't like Firefox for most browsing because it's got numerous problems that never get confronted. I don't like the browser from another web conglomerate because I don't want to share my usage data with a company that will ultimately use it to put me (and you!) out of business.