outloud.fm/ILXORS — it's like Listening Room but not buggy and like turntable.fm but not designed for tweens. (RIP 2012)

no lie - came home tonight semi-drunk and thought "oh hey maybe people are on outloud" and then INFINITE SADFACE

new DN: John Justen and the Infinite Sadface

But seriously, does somebody want to e-mail them and see if they can get the code?

I would if I had any idea what to do with it. I'm guessing there would be no circumvention of its grey-area legality if we made one ilx0rs-only, right? It'd still be a bit dodgy? Otherwise I'd be totally up for puppy-dog-eyes-ing at stet/keith.

server in the cayman islands

http://www.rolling.fm/

Rolling.fm is a part of Tenka.com, a “social media advertising startup” registered to its co-founder and chief product officer Tim Zhou, who was a senior software engineer at Google from April 2008 to June 2010, according to his LinkedIn profile, and worked at IBM before that.

His co-creation, whose domain he registered on June 27 — as Turntable.fm was gathering steam — is a group-listening room very much along the lines of Turntable.fm that encourages people to turn themselves into cute little avatars to play music for each other and chat about it; part of a big and growing group-listening phenomenon happening this year.

You log in to Rolling.fm with Facebook, just like with Turntable.fm. You “become a DJ to play music for everyone in the room” from either a central catalog or your own hard drive; earn credits for playing stuff people like; vote songs “hot” or “weak”; and use credits to buy new outfits for your avatar. The service is divided into browsable rooms (or you can go to a random one), and as a song loads, the front of the DJ stage displays a pithy, preloaded statement telling you to hold your horses.

All of this is precisely identical to Turntable.fm, except the avatars, rooms and people look a little different. Oh, and when you like a song, it’s “hot” instead of “awesome” — dislike it, and it’s “weak” instead of “lame.” Plus, there’s a cat sitting on the speakers and the DJs rotate through to the same laptop instead of using their own.

Granted, Rolling.fm brings a few additions to the Turntable.fm feature set, such as the ability to see who is in a room in one big list, and a private chat feature that lets you speak directly to Facebook friends even if they’re in a different room.

Or you can all use Soundrop like everyone else

by everyone else i mean like 5 of us

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2011/08/rolling_fm_660.jpg

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/rollingfm/

I really don't like the idea of logging in through facebook - is there another option? Would consider it if enough other people were interested, though. Also, can you start your own room?

the DJs rotate through to the same laptop instead of using their own.

What does this mean? Is it purely cosmetic (the little DJ avatars)?

http://www.rolling.fm/web/room2/4836211

OK here's an ILX room

emil.y, I thought you accessed Outloud via Facebook

that hideous GUI is the most succient argument for outloud one could wish for

come back outloud, all your myriad weird glitches are forgiven

Yeah, this is pretty gross. Couldn't play a song because not enough people were in the room. Fuck this.

succinct xp

Oh crap, was off doing something else - are people still in there or not?

WmC, I accessed Outloud through twitter.

Use your credits to buy awesome outfits.

Noones doing it then?

I'm in.

ugh, .m4a files not supported -- this thing is just crap all the way around

it looks...unlike Outloud

judging by the interface it wasn't merely designed for tweens, it was designed by getting some really angry and stupid tweens to threaten some other tweens and force them to imagine what sort of interface the really angry and stupid ones would like

Actually, one thing I like about it is that it seems to let you upload a bunch of songs you want to play, and then to add them to the room list at your leisure - so you can queue lots of things to the site but leak them out later. Or it seems like that's the theory, anyway.

To be honest, if its functionality is okay, I could get used to the stupid gimmicky avatars and shit.

How much of a hassle is no m4as, WmC? I only ever use mp3s, so...

at least it works I guess

chat not working

Wait, AG's just said that he sees no chat... have I been blathering to myself, then? Nobody else can see what I've said?

xpost - yeah, that.

I posted chat stuff, but it sounds like nobody saw it.

my grafitti didnt even show up

I see Jeff's but not AG's. And mine is the only chat I see. Bugger.

I'm trying 'add friend' to see if that makes a difference. Though that's still hella bad design if you have to do that to chat.

so you have to be "friends" to chat with people?

This is terrible.

Could anyone see my chat after we friended each other?

it seems kind of buggy

I just refreshed and everything disappeared

Hang on, I'm gonna try refreshing too.

Nope, still no chat. No chat = no point. I'm outta there too.

RIP

yeah i quit back to soundrop for me. if anyone wants to join me that would be great

I just fb messaged Michael O'Brien (one of the devs) to see if he'll shock it back to life. I kind of fear his response because it's been down so long this time, but hopefully it will be positive!

Yeah, the thing is, even if they do wake it again, it looks like it'll keep breaking - it's not a priority, and we can't rely on it. We need something that we can use whenever...

I've e-mailed Stephen a couple times, never got a response.

But if they have abandoned it, it really isn't a bad idea to ask for the code - if we ever find someone willing to take it on it's better to have it than not, right?

yeah

Have we tried this before? http://www.plug.dj/ilxors/

Looks like it takes Soundcloud and Youtube but not mp3s...

Trying it. Obviously not having totally free reign would suck, but youtube has so much on it. Why do none of these have bandcamp playing facility, though? Is it something to do with the way bandcamp streams or something?

This is working for me as a diversion - even if its not the same.

yeah this is kind of ok

Is it broken already? "Safari can't find the server."

No, we're still in there.