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Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

habosa wrote: post #30
ashraful wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot. I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jumped straight into coding. The code's mess but it works and that's great. I still have a lot to learn, but I do plan on adding three features: 1. Have new searches not interrupt the current song. 2. Make the video resizable. 3. Add playlists. I actually asked a…

This is the first thing you ever coded? That's fantastic, it's a great product.

I am a designer, and have coded HTML/CSS before. I have been trying to learn coding for years, but never get beyond the intro chapters in most books.

So this is my project. I just picked PHP (because it seemed to be simple enough - just drop into the HTML), and decided to code this concept. Lots of stackoverflow and github searches later I finally have a working version.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by nightpool »

Really cool. It would be really useful though if I could sort the results, for example, by album/track number. Seems like a REALLY useful service nonetheless. Congrats.

EDIT: Also, sometimes people combine multiple songs into one youtube video, for example http://youtu.be/J0FawK4G_AY They seem to show up in your player as only the first song. This is a lot more complicated then my first suggestion, but some sort of detection of that (and maybe the possibly more common case of full album videos) would help save some confusion when users play one song and get another one for free. (BONUS!)

EDIT2: Also, allowing only one video for any given song has issues, for example, when the first result is a live video or otherwise bad quality. Maybe just a right click menu that lets you select "See alternate videos"?

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by rationalbeats »

arkitaip wrote: post #33

The blatant theft of Spotify's look and feel makes me not want to use this service. Screenshot of Spotify http://i.imgur.com/Um0HM.png

Never used Spotify before, but the screen shot you just posted looks just like iTunes to me.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

fredsted wrote: post #44

Neat idea! I also made something similar that allows you to easily make playlists from YouTube videos: http://instadj.com

Thats really cool!

Is the code available somewhere? I'd love to take a look at how the search and the playlist thing works.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

arkitaip wrote: post #33

The blatant theft of Spotify's look and feel makes me not want to use this service. Screenshot of Spotify http://i.imgur.com/Um0HM.png

This was sort of a project for me to learn to code, so I borrowed a UI that was suitable. I didn't want to spend much time coming up with a new UI.

I'll redesign the entire UI before launching the update version though.

Apologies to anyone who got offended at the Spotify ripoff.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

nightpool wrote: post #42

Really cool. It would be really useful though if I could sort the results, for example, by album/track number. Seems like a REALLY useful service nonetheless. Congrats. EDIT: Also, sometimes people combine multiple songs into one youtube video, for example http://youtu.be/J0FawK4G_AY They seem to show up in your player as only the first song. This is a lot more complicated then my first suggestion, but some sort of d…

Will do the multiple videos thing in the next version.
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