The internet soundtrack database

Beansprout · 10 May 2010 at 22:27

My friend's developing a rather neat site and thought I'd share it with you for feedback etc! I don't tend to post here much these days due to working hard keeping all your websites online but still recognise most posters!

It's called The internet soundtrack database and provides a database of Film/TV soundtracks which you can listen to via Grooveshark or purchase through iTunes. It also links up with Facebook too which is useful to annoy friends

(I mean er share with your social graph...)

Any feedback on its design, usability, feature suggestions would be hugely appreciated

It was his final year project and is now a hobby and constant work in progress (eg the database is small but growing)

Phyre · 10 May 2010 at 22:59

It's good. The site itself has a nice design and is easy to use. Most popular songs for a TV show would be good, especially ones with hundreds of episodes spanning several series.

Yakyb · 11 May 2010 at 00:07

very nice you may want to talk to some of the ember media manager / xbmc / media browser guys to try to incorporate your api into some of the metadata availible

But you probably already have

Conrad11 · 11 May 2010 at 09:45

The are very, very few *new* websites that I look at and this "yeah, this could really take off", but this was one...

...very nice.

gord · 11 May 2010 at 09:59

It's nice! Seems to work, had a "couldn't play this song" but the other one worked that I clicked. The design is nice and clean and the use of jquery on the login, rotator and mega menu etc is very nice.

jack.mitchell · 11 May 2010 at 14:57

This is actually a really good idea. I like it.

yer_averagejoe · 11 May 2010 at 15:19

I'd agree with all posts so far; its very rare to come across a site as well designed and intuitive as this. I'd also say that the site has huge potential.

First of all, naming it "The internet soundtrack database" is a very wise choice. It immediately claims its dominance in the genre... just as IMDB did, and we all know how successful that has been.

TV show/film sountracks are (i can imagine) a highly queried search and the sites currently out there to serve content to those searches are fragmented and often ill-composed.

If you friend can put the time (and perhaps a bit of money to begin with) into filling the site with content and maintaining it to the high standard it already achieves, it could be a very rewarding project.

Beansprout · 11 May 2010 at 17:47

Thanks guys, he'll be pleased! Like the idea of integrating with XBMC

I think the songs are obtained from some sort of data feed at the moment so I suspect there's better feeds and more info to keep adding, or perhaps he should hire a Vietnamese kid