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Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by NathanKP »

Very cool! Is there a way to make the video larger if you want to actually view the video instead of just using the site as a music player?

Perhaps make the area below the video player clickable so that it makes the video appear in a larger area above the song list.

I am very impressed. Great work Ashraful!

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by cjstewart88 »

Neat, I made http://www.tubalr.com about 2 years ago and have been working on it every since. It made its way onto Mashable, Techcrunch, and several other blogs this past Dec/Jan.

Something to keep in mind, eventually YouTube will start blocking certain videos from being played on your site. This took a while and mainly started happening when traffic picked up. Theres no good way to pickout blocked videos, heres a function I use to weed through some of the blocked videos: https://github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr/blob/master/app/assets...

Also, all of Tubalr's codes in github if you're interested: http://www.github.com/cjstewart88/Tubalr

Good Luck!

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by bbrian »

rane wrote: post #3

Like the idea of having a Spotify-like UI for the vast amount of music on Youtube. Not so much like the fact that it's pretty much Spotify's interface copied to the smallest detail.

I've never seen Spotify and thought it was just like iTunes, but with the controls at the bottom.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by p4bl0 »

This is a service I would really like. There's also youtify[1], but neither work for me (with youtify Soundcloud works but not YouTube). The music simply never starts.

That's too bad because such a "music mode" is something I would love to see on YouTube. It's not that I constantly listen to music on YouTube, that would be a waste of bandwidth, but I use YouTube almost exclusively as a music/artist discovery platform, then I download the musics I like once and for all. But I would still appreciate a lot to be able to actually have a working playlist/queue feature on YouTube, and also to be able to desactivate the video display (and download) to only keep the sound.

[1] http://www.youtify.com/

EDIT: I guess the best service of this type I've seen yet is http://roll.io/ (which works for me on top of that). I was discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2665090

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

NathanKP wrote: post #2

Very cool! Is there a way to make the video larger if you want to actually view the video instead of just using the site as a music player? Perhaps make the area below the video player clickable so that it makes the video appear in a larger area above the song list. I am very impressed. Great work Ashraful!

Thanks a lot.

I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jumped straight into coding. The code's mess but it works and that's great.

I still have a lot to learn, but I do plan on adding three features:

1. Have new searches not interrupt the current song. 2. Make the video resizable. 3. Add playlists. I actually asked a fellow HN-ers to help out with this because I don't think I'll be able to handle databases yet.

Glad you liked it.

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