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Thanks for sharing, this looks useful, though not sure the shit mantra is necessary.
I second this. It's crass and unnecessary and just makes me look at it.. i dunno... differently. And because of that -- and only that -- I would never see myself sharing this with people or using it to send video playlists to people aside from some anonymous web forum.
I hope this idea stays as focused and bloat-free as it is right now, I just love it.
Very useful. I always wished for something like this. I was a little disappointed to see that it didn't work on the iPad, though. The page just tells me (in grey text on a black background btw) that the flash player is needed, although embedded YouTube videos usually work without the need for flash on this thing.
I 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…
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I second this. It's crass and unnecessary and just makes me look at it.. i dunno... differently. And because of that -- and only that -- I would never see myself sharing this with people or using it to send video playlists to people aside from some anonymous web forum.
That's a pretty shitty reason not to share this with people.
Seriously, though, I'm not one to be easily offended -- and I think fake umbrage in our society has been taken to a ridiculous level (especially in politics). But the reason I like good design is because when something is well designed it gives me a sense of calm and peace. Having "I eat text and shit out whatever" is just very bad design to me.
And it's offensive enough that why would I risk offending somebody? Why do I care enough about the site to take on that risk?
just thought of something else. It would be quite cool if we could direct roll.io to play files via url parameter. Say we want to play 3 songs. We could type something like this in a forum: http://roll.io/song1title-song2title-song3title With '-' as delimiter or some other char/word
it does something similar. Here are some examples: http://roll.io/queen (plays 1 song from queen) http://roll.io/queen play:all (plays 25 songs from queen) http://roll.io/queen play:2 (plays 2 songs from queen) http://roll.io/http://bt.ly/Ercv6 (the url of your txt file)
I wonder why everyone seems to get what this does from reading the description. When I read "eat and shit", I assume that the "food" is "transformed" into ... youtube videos. So I thought this would generate new videos and upload them to youtube automatically, maybe showing the txt files as a huge StarWars scroller, or something.