Pretty cool! My only suggestion might be to hide the artist and song name, if possible, and show it after the color is picked. I kind of felt like I was ready to pick a color for some well known artist before even hearing the song.
Small bug: If you put the lightness slider to the maximum and then drag around the inner parts of the circle, the selected colour will flicker to black
The stream doesn't play for me as well, but I get the idea. And I think it's a great idea.
What do you plan to do with the collected data? It would be interesting to see whether there is a consensus among many people on what color some songs are or if it's more or less random.
If there is a consensus, it would probably reflect our culture's current associations with each color. It would be very interesting to see an analysis of that data.
Another idea: You could compare the colors with the cover art of the respective albums to see if there are matches.
Very nice! Random suggestion, how about you turn the background color of the page to the avg color/most popular color people picked for the song when displaying the results.
That seems more likely to lead people (not sure which way though). For example if a song had a dark background (because of previous choices) then people might choose a contrasting background, etc..
It would be interesting to match up after a while with a similar project using "mood words" to create a map of mood to colour which could be broken down by region, by music preferences and such.
Interesting. It would be neat if you could find a way to display prior users' submission with more than just hue and saturation and include luminosity or brightness too.
I think it would be better for user engagement to not automatically show what other users chose, and also to have the next song start streaming automatically if the user chose a color for the previous song. I could see going tvtropes on the site and inadvertently spending a lot of time there if it was easier to maintain my mental flow.
Kind of reminds me of Moody (http://www.crayonroom.com/moody.php). It'd be pretty awesome to link the two projects as to get a decent crowd-sourced default 'mood' for your personal playlist.
I just kind of hit a road-block with getting access to music people wanted to listen to. if you can hack something up with what I've fiddled with, or take any inspiration from it, that would be awesome.
