I guess one advantage of this is it might use less energy than streaming on Youtube directly? Haven't done comparison yet though to quantify CPU resource utilization and power consumption.
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#122This is awesome, I recently have discovered the youtube lofi universe and have basically stopped using spotify while working.
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#123I think for full screen it would be better to reencode gif to mp4 and host that, might drop CPU in browser also but not sure.
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You are aware that it's usually a ToS violation to play YouTube videos without showing the YouTube player? https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum...
We're on hacker news and it's a cool tech project, who cares about some corporation's ToS?
We're on artist news and it's a cool music project, who cares about someone's software license.
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To go in the opposite direction, if you wanted to add an option for people fine with large CPU/GPU expenditure (i.e., if this were playing on a dedicated TV in an actual café), it might be fun to add a WebGL canvas and make lofi/vaporwave-inspired effects [0]. [0]: http://hands.wtf/rad
Why would you ever target wasting CPU/GPU when better alternatives are available?
I actually really like this feature when playing music for a whole room on my OLED TV. People like watching the fancy graphics and I get to dodge a tiny little bit of burn in.
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Video may be cheap, too: h.264 or WebM are relatively low cost on even reasonably modern devices.
Video cheaper than animated gif?
Yeah, lower bandwidth requirements and most computers/all smartphones have dedicated video decoding hardware, especially for h264.
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#127Could the CPU load be reduced? If I am only on the page, not even playing any music yet (probably because something is blocked), I get 1 core up at 100% CPU load. This can't all be for an animated background image, can it?
Same. I use a miniPC with a loud (by design constraints) fan when load is pegged. It ran like a jet engine on this site.
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#128I love that these type of apps are popping back up. However, I fear that the RIAA is going to ruin all the fun like they've done in the past. I used to run a site in which we just played random music with no ads/no revenue. We still got a cease and desist letter giving us no choice but to shut it down. I get why they exist, but they are more about stomping out sites rather than working them to figure out a path that…
Is there some way to limit streamed music to stuff that has a suitable license? I'm thinking specifically of Creative Commons stuff. Or couldn't you make a front end that pulls audio from Spotify or some other paid service? I want to see ideas like this flourish and support artists.
Unfortunately the only way to get around this is to have agreements in place with independent artists for the site that you could then provide to the RIAA when they come knocking. If you post music by artists signed to a label it's out of the artists' hand even if you attempt to put something in place directly with the artist. The RIAA is aggressive and well funded. Their entire objective is to make sure artists get paid whenever their music is played regardless of whether the site is free/no ads.
EDIT: Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc do not provide APIs to embed their players into other sites without some sort of licensing agreement in place.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you ever target wasting CPU/GPU when better alternatives are available?
I actually really like this feature when playing music for a whole room on my OLED TV. People like watching the fancy graphics and I get to dodge a tiny little bit of burn in.
You missed the part of better alternatives. I didn't mean to turn off the anim, just switch it to a more efficient method of doing it.
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#130https://plaza.one/ is similar, but for vaporwave