Roadee
| Work | css • html5 • design |
| Date | September 2010 |
I try to listen to a lot of music. And if I'm paying attention I can see bands in small San Francisco venues before they get too big. The problem has always been how do I know when they're coming to town?
Checking every band's website for tour updates obviously won't work and checking upcoming listings at the clubs takes too much time.
There are some services that have started to address the problem. I use iConcertCal, which it works reasonably well, but it only alerts me to bands I happen to be listening to at that time. And there are a few websites that will track bands for you, for example, Songkick, but when I tried it I had to wade through a bunch of pages. The closest I've seen to my ideal is Bandsintown.
So, mostly as a quick design/html exercise I put together a few pages of what I would like to use.
The homepage would consist only of a big input box to enter a band name. Auto-complete search results would appear and a simple 'track' button would appear. Clicking a band's name would take you to their dedicated page. Clicking the 'track' that button would tie your Twitter account and any alerts would be sent there. Very quick and clean. Another popular method would be to scan your iTunes library (or your other music sources) which would at least start you out.
Now, of course, there are some problems with it. First of all, how do you get the band's information there in the first place and who updates the tour data. I don't know enough about how accessible some of this information is but there's got to be a way, right?
