I have exactly same views as Pranav.

Sunoh.fm w/o music is similar to Google providing title and summary on its SERPs without any links. I agree with Pranav that Indian music industry is very different than US. There is barely any Indi music that needs to be ‘discovered’.

Most of the music is out there. The best a service can do is ‘remind’ users of music from the past, which they have heard (and perhaps liked) in the past but haven’t heard the song in a while.

IMO, the current concept is good, but most likely the timing isn’t. This kind of app is too early for Indian market. Obviously, it can be evolved into something more interesting may be something desktop based.

I understand the social discovery part, but if the user cant listen to the tracks on the site, they’ll need to jump else where for listening to the tracks. I think thats a big no-no. For all your efforts to bring folks on to your site, you want to keep them there.

Another aspect related to social discovery is that social music discovery makes a lot of sense when it comes to international music, just due to the variety of genres and artists out there.

However, when it comes to the Indian music scene, there isnt a whole lot of variety out there. Bolllywood and pop music dominate and normally, the better soundtracks always surface to the top somehow. So, for an average user, he’s not going to uncover anything different than what he’s gonna come across on Raaga or Indiamusic online.
Probably, the site will serve well for those interested in the long tail.

If implemented well, idea has potential to rock!!

cheers

Best.

Thanks for your feedback. Yeah the cursor is funky Basically when the cursor is up, it means server is processing your request. Currently the app is slow due to few backend issues. But over time you are going to see less of the cursor since the site would load faster. As for music library, i would like to clarify that we are a social music discovery site, and not a typical online radio. We want users to discover artists and music their friends are listening to. So the best way to discover music at Sunoh.fm would be by visiting artist profiles or friend profiles.

Gaurav,
“There are some kind of bars along with each song in an album.” – Please try clicking on the song name or that arrow. When you would that, you would see lot of cool stuff As for permalinks, we do have permalinks to artist profiles. It’s just they are not displayed on the front-end. Should be fixed soon. As for SEO, we are still looking into it. As for the slowness, that should be fixed by month-end. And as for being able to make playlist of songs of you like – as mentioned above, Sunoh.fm’s focus is on discovery. Discovery of Artists and their music. In other words, there is very less likelihood of us delivering a playlist kinda functionality.

There are some kind of bars along with each song in an album. I have no idea what it means. No permalinks, no SEO. No matter how good a product is, you need SEO strategy as well as users ‘share’ content on your site. Apart from other things, the site is slow (they are using S3 for static file hosting). It could be because they just launched and may not have planned for the spike.

As Pranav mentioned, the music library is missing. If I want to play the most popular songs, there is no way to play all those songs in playlist. It can be done in one click on Dhingana from homepage.

IMHO, Sunoh’s team concentrated too much on technology and perhaps tried to code things toughest possible way (Programmers Ego!) and spent less time on usability, SEO.

PS: Just realized there is no ‘Back’ functionality. Closing the browser now, will certainly visit the site once they have figured out basic usability!

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