Doesn't work if you type something with a space in it. For example, typing "Municipal Waste" gives you an error page, and the URL looks like this:
Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
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#32Good stuff. I'm giving it a try. I like to listen to a wide variety of music and like to give things a good number of listens before I part with my money. I like the idea of sourcing from YouTube as it takes all the guess work out of what is legal and what isn't (as least from a listener point of view) so I can focus on listening. So thanks for building this.
The Playlist seems a bit dodgy. There is no indicator that the item was added. After I added something (and didn't get confirmation) I went to the playlist to see if it added... but it said it was empty. So I went back and added it again. Again, no indicator and still showed as empty. So I went back and added a different song. And now the playlist has 2 items (the first one I tried to add twice and the second one). So I removed one item... and now the playlist says it is empty again. I added another song and now it says two again. So it seems there is something wrong with the count to determine if a playlist is empty or not. And without the indicator that something was added, I was quite confused.
I think it would be cool if you could incorporate some way to link to somewhere to buy songs/albums. Not sure how others feel about that. But if I was going to buy something, I'd gladly click through an affiliate link to support the site.
Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
#33Doesn't work if you type something with a space in it. For example, typing "Municipal Waste" gives you an error page, and the URL looks like this: http://www.youfm.org/#/search/municipal waste
It does work actually. Although when you share the link the space messes up the hyperlink, I should probably turn spaces into "+"s.
If you're getting an error that says "Oops something went wrong", thats something that pops up now and again (Can't figure out why). Refresh the page and it should work.
Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
#34You have a competitor, in case you hadn't already noticed: http://www.tubalr.com.
Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
#35Good stuff. I'm giving it a try. I like to listen to a wide variety of music and like to give things a good number of listens before I part with my money. I like the idea of sourcing from YouTube as it takes all the guess work out of what is legal and what isn't (as least from a listener point of view) so I can focus on listening. So thanks for building this. The Playlist seems a bit dodgy. There is no indicator that…
Yea, there are some quirks with the UI particularly the BackboneJS bits. I'll be fixing them soon.
I'm holding off on the monetization stuff (buy songs) until I can work out all the bugs.
Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
#36You have a competitor, in case you hadn't already noticed: http://www.tubalr.com .
Yes. Youfm was actually (partly) inspired by Tubalr back when it was first launched (almost 3 years ago I think).
Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
#37A little background: http://ashraful.me/?p=7
* Link to OP's Blog and Launch Post
(This should be higher up)
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#38Nice UI. Please fix the issue when a song is blocked by copyright holders. In Germany it happens a lot and then a player just keeps retrying to play a song.
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#39Are you planning on making a mobile friendly version?
It should work on mobile devices, although a few tweaks in the CSS is needed to make the UI adapt properly. I'll make those in the coming weeks. If I find people using the site regularly, I'll create a mobile app for it.
I'm sure with this been on front page HN it will gain some traction =P Also although the site loads find on an iPad..it seems to be very off. Just FYI.
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#40A little background: http://ashraful.me/?p=7
>YouFM is a simple music streaming site that searches Spotify for the data and then plays the music video from Youtube.
No wonder it couldn't find anything for most of the artists I tried, then, despite a whole lot of their stuff being on YouTube... And for the one it did, the song matching seemed incredibly spotty (try searching for Huoratron and playing the song A699F, for example).
Some other feedback: You should probably add some tooltips (I assume the circling arrow on the far right of the bottom bar is for "repeat" but it'd be nice to have a tooltip confirm the assumption), and for some reason the volume slider seems pretty unresponsive - you need to hit it in a rather exact spot to set the volume automatically to a specific level.