Comments on: Beatport HTML5

By: electronic djs

electronic djs — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:59:03 +0000

On old version i found flash annoying and slow. So i welcome new changes on beatport.

Cheers, edjs.com Team

By: Kent Sandvik

Kent Sandvik — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:49:09 +0000

Finally! How many years did I complain to Beatport about this. They should have realized that for SEO they need real web pages.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:50:40 +0000

Yes of course. As of now iTunes, Amazon and Beatport…

By: tazzaler

tazzaler — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:58:11 +0000

Absolutely in love with it, should we expect more Horrorist releases there?

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:03:01 +0000

Yes I really hope so! I love NI products but hate their website.

By: mr. tunes

mr. tunes — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:24:04 +0000

hah interesting you suggest this! i think native instruments has the controlling stake in beatport (part of some sort of traktor deal).

By: James Lewin

James Lewin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:52:52 +0000

Think Native Instruments should follow their lead?

By: Crispy

Crispy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:16:38 +0000

I agree… loving the new Beatpor. My favorite new features are the keyboard shortcuts. They make blazing through hundreds of bleh to find the few gems some much easier.

By: mr. tunes

mr. tunes — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:22:20 +0000

good comments here! the truth is they were very proud of the flash site. and before apple blocked it on the iphone, it was cutting edge. they even invested in a big redesign of that interface no more than two years ago.

there has been a mobile app for a while now, but i agree that song detection would be amazing. they already have the database of club tracks.

By: Rattmouth

Rattmouth — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:19:35 +0000

To be honest (and speaking as web developer/designer) that was Beatport’s dumb mistake to make an all-Flash site. They should have made an HTML site with just a flash audio player. And then when the mobile world exploded, all they would have needed to do was to pop in some browser detection script and swap out the Flash player for a compatible non-flash version.

Anyway, it isn’t fair to blame flash for their design mistake.

The new site does look bad ass though. I just hope that they will allow the embedding of streaming-only versions of songs (along the same lines as SoundCloud). In my opinion that is the best way to promote to DJs nowadays. Let them hear the song (not a random sample of it), put it in a slick and easy-to-use audio player, and then make it super-easy for the listener to buy it from that player. As few steps as possible.

Also, they should have a mobile app with a built-in music-recognition feature (like Shazam or SoundHound).

Me: “What is this song? Computer, identify and purchase song.”
Phone: “Processing… You now own Stick’Em by The Fat Boys.”

My two cents,
–Matt