I want technical details on how it works behind the scenes, plz :)
Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
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#52mixvids.com
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#53The 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
Thanks for showing me this. The blatant theft of iTune's look and feel makes me never want to use Spotify.
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#54I want technical details on how it works behind the scenes, plz :)
It takes your search term and queries the iTunes API. Using the search results, the Youtube API is queried for the search term " - ". The first video result is taken (it may or may not be the correct video but usually is).
The video is played using Youtube's Chromeless Player.
Similar results are displayed using Last.FM's API.
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#55very cool and clean design. the only thing you need to change is that horrible scroller that you left untouched.
this will be perfect for you and will perfectly match the design: http://jamesflorentino.github.com/nanoScrollerJS/
edit: next to "time" column pls put the "# of views" -- this will help me discover whats popular in my search.
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#56Nice app. But I suspect that this will draw more attention to the possibility of using YouTube as a music service and therefore increase the risk of these videos taken off YouTube.
Nowadays almost all the music videos on Youtube are legal. Most of them are from VEVO's official channel. So the risk of them getting taken off youtube is quite low.
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#57Like the idea of having a Spotify-like UI for the vast amount of music on Youtube. Not so much like the fact that it's pretty much Spotify's interface copied to the smallest detail.
You are right, this looks like he just stole the assets.
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#58Nice to see a decent app designed by a fellow Bangladeshi on HN.
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#59Really 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.
Cool! Any thoughts on sorting (and possibly adding a bit more metadata to sort with)?
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#60Love the idea! I mainly use YouTube to find interesting music, and this would (will?) make that easier.
The interface seems sketchy though. Sometimes clicking on a song in the results list doesn't do anything. Other times there's a little flash, but it doesn't switch to playing that song. Sometimes it selects the song and the video appears to load, but it doesn't actually start playing. In general, the UI is frustrating because it looks clean and polished, but a gesture has the desired effect only about 75% of the time.
Another issue I found is that sometimes I get what seems to be the wrong video—it's not the song listed, and appears to be completely unrelated. Several times I got a video of somebody narrating a Dickens novel, and once an Asian game show of some kind. It could be wrong metadata on the YouTube side, but it happened often enough that I doubt it.
If you sort out these issues, this could be awesome.