Hi! I'm Andres, the CEO and founder of humm. It's a pleasure to e-meet you all here.
I've created two music startups, and in the course of building our previous venture we constantly heard a similar thing: while several streaming services are making an ever bigger push for premium customers, no-one's taking care of the music fans who can't afford or don't yet want to buy a premium subscription. Also, the sites that do focus on the free experience aren't specifically set up as music players.
That's why we built humm. humm is a music streaming service that combines a catalogue of tens of millions of tracks, a kick-ass recommendation engine and a simple interface to create a free and seamless music experience. You can find pretty much any track you're looking for, create and import playlists, and do without those irksome ads that interrupt the flow.
humm has a great onboarding process that helps suggest music tailored to your taste. When you search the name of an artist or song, the interface brings up the best-quality tracks, albums, videos and cover versions, any of which you can add to playlists with a simple drag and drop. Soon, we'll have a pin function that lets you add any music you come across online!
We realise the product isn't 100% perfect yet, but we'd love to hear your feedback. I'm at your disposal for any questions.
HI @joshdance it´s a question of how you embed the content. We use third party APIs and it´s the way they work. For example Youtube omits pre-roll ads if the size of embed has a small size.
I just had a terrible experience - I typed in "Foo Fighters" hit play - and the first song I hear is a terrible wannabe cover - surely for a band like Foo Fighters this service can match against a myriad of sources to find the song being played by the actual band (screenshot of random dude playing foo fighters song in upper left http://cl.ly/image/3s022P2C3n3d) - I mean gosh, if you're going for user generated covers at least serve up this epic foo fighters cover with over 26 million views - - I know the product isnt "100% perfect" - but I was so bummed to just such a bad match to a very popular and well known band with a HUGE footprint online. Good luck - as of right now, no idea why I would switch to this from Spotify.
Hi @hemeon, we are sorry for that. As you know this a Beta and you may still find things that don´t work properly. We are indexing and cataloguing all the music available in internet (not just asking APIs) and is an ongoing and complex process. We got more than 40 millions tracks at the moment and we run continuos cleaning processes to avoid things like the one that happened to you. In any case thanks for your input, it´s good to know that this should be a top priority for us as the last thing we want is users as disappointed as you´re.
@hemeon You´re totally right about Foo Fighter. You´ve a good number of albums in there but the popular songs are wrong. We´ve included the option to report "wrong content" so we can fix errors and keep improving the catalogue. We like to think in Humm as a tool for the people and we´d like to have the people helping us to make it better. With a bit of time and use the content will be much more accurate.
As you probably know The Beatles are really tricky as most of their catalogue is not available in any streaming service. Happy that you found Radiohead. In any case, here´s my compromise to fix the Foo Fighter content asap and go back to you with just quality content. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.
@andressandaza@hemeon but why as a user do I want to waste my time cataloging and improving your data when I can just get the right stuff on itunes, spotify or even pandora - who has time to do this kind of crowdsourced work - also what on earth do I get out of cleaning your data?
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