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Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

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Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

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Post by p4bl0 »

joebo wrote: post #69
hafifuyku wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. that's me trying to sound cool in 80 characters (minus "Show HN:")

Personally, I could go for less 'cool' on HN and more clarity and accuracy instead. 'Show HN: roll.io plays youtube videos searching list of text. Useful?' That aside, neat app. It's a clever tagline though.

For this particular link I'm not sure I would have clicked it with the text you suggest. And I'm glad I did click it. But I agree that in the general case, titles on HN should be accurate rather than catchy.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

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Post by pclark »

This is a great idea and your elevator pitch on hacker news is brilliant, except you should have said "text" rather than txt.

I assumed you meant you took a .txt file of text and extracted any and all videos from it.

"Show HN: roll.io eats text and shits relevant youtube videos. Useful?"

The proposition is so obvious you should just spell it out on your home page, like, have a text box with some pre-populated text and a big arrow that says "becomes" and then a playlist of youtube videos.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#104

Post by resdirector »

bekirdag wrote: post #99
resdirector wrote: post #96

Request: Ability to enter in wikipedia track listing URL, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track...

Can you give me at least two different examples of this type of listing please? If it's generic, we can prepare a connector for this.

AFAIK, most track listings use this template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing. (Although you should check this!)

Actually, what would be very cool is a chrome plugin that allows you to play the songs listed on any wiki album page, with a click of a button. That would be incredibly cool.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#107

Post by bekirdag »

resdirector wrote: post #104
bekirdag wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give me at least two different examples of this type of listing please? If it's generic, we can prepare a connector for this.

AFAIK, most track listings use this template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing . (Although you should check this!) Actually, what would be very cool is a chrome plugin that allows you to play the songs listed on any wiki album page, with a click of a button. That would be incredibly cool.

Ok it's done. Thank you very much for your help.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#108

Post by ChrisArchitect »

used this last night on a whim to paste in the contents of a tracklist from a radio show. Great way to flip through some of the tracks the djs played without having the actual show recording on hand. Handy for those into electronic/dance stuff where there's lots of livesets and tracklists floating around. I'd say it was 80% accurate in picking up the right track from youtube. Amazing how much stuff is on youtube of course.
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