I fed it with my lastfm charts, good job.
Empty lines are currently displayed and link to a random video. A quick improvement would be to just skip these empty lines.
Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
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#12very nice idea! would be nice if we could type out playlist in textboxes and then open them via roll.io so that those boxes are easy to emded in forums when someone wants to list out a few viddys without going to youtube to expressedly look & link for them.
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#13much better than youtube, clear and to the point, simple. great job!
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#14i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text. It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.
Sorry for the confusing title. roll.io takes txt files, searches every line in youtube and plays the results one after the other. This is the result of a tiny hackathon. We wanted to listen to the old playlists of Woxy.com
Can you have man/help page? Because a lot many guys were confused at first. Nice job.
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#15I love how simple yet functional it is. If I can suggest just a few minor things:
1. We have the 'hide video' options, can we please have 'hide list' option which makes video bigger?
2. Can we have the 'always select best quality' switch?
With these features roll.io would make it to my favorite music players list.
Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
#16i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text. It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.
Sorry for the confusing title. roll.io takes txt files, searches every line in youtube and plays the results one after the other. This is the result of a tiny hackathon. We wanted to listen to the old playlists of Woxy.com
it became apparent after I saw the sample "upload text" but perhaps having a default text box with sample lines in it would remove the confusion.
Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
#17Really nice idea. I have created something similar but I try to create a playlist for those who have last.fm accounts: http://lastvj.appspot.com
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#18very nice idea! would be nice if we could type out playlist in textboxes and then open them via roll.io so that those boxes are easy to emded in forums when someone wants to list out a few viddys without going to youtube to expressedly look & link for them.
wonderful idea
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#19Great idea, but definitely needs a better explanation as I misunderstood it at first. Obviously the next step is allowing users to save their playlists.
Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
#20I really like this, I had a similar idea a few years ago with 'YouLink' - essentially solving the playlist problem of YouTube - but I didn't think of making such a simple and clean execution. Mine was more Youtube meets iTunes style - pre Spotify days.
Plus back then, bandwidth was not so great / YouTube often buffered causing breaks in the music. So I abandoned the project.
However Roll.io is a great solution, often I have the situation where I have a track listing for something that I can find individual songs for on youtube, but need to quickly make a playlist out of it, but don't due to the horrible youtube playlist interface.
This is especially true when it comes to 'Remixed' music where the songs have particular unique names. e.g. http://roll.io/#4fvjsj!0
Thanks for making it. The only request I would have would be to automatically remove or recognise track listing numbers at the start of the tracks.
E.g. if I copy a track listing I often have: 1. SongA 2. SongB 3. SongC 4. SongD
- It is a slight pain to manually remove the 1., 2., 3., 4. from the front and may cause incorrect matching on the songs if I leave them on.