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Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

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Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#81
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Do you think this would also work with Grooveshark? The problem with YouTube is that most music videos are geo-blocked outside the US, or at least for my country they are. (So are Pandora, Spotify, etc.) Furthermore I believe that Grooveshark's song library is bigger anyway, so it would be an improvement for everyone. Grooveshark offers widgets, so in theory it could work. http://widgets.grooveshark.com/make

using other services would be a future request. we will consider this.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#82

WOW! I had exactly this idea at a Hackaton festival called Codebits in Portugal in November last year and presented it[1] to the audience but didn't receive that much excitement from them about my implementation done in 12 hours using JS and Rails3. Now I see I should have stick to it. Deep inside me I knew if the service would be useful to me, it would be to some other folks, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't…

How about iterating on your idea? Here's an idea of mine for free (I came up with this as I was reading your comment, so feel free to critique it): Instead of uploading a text file, a user can type in an artist and song title on their smartphone. This gets added to a playlist that's displaying on a large monitor/TV/projector screen. This could pick songs from YouTube/iTunes/Winamp etc. Uses: - Nightclubs. People can…

it needs a serious development time (and probably investment cause you will need hardware, space and time) but i think this could be the future of public music.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#84

WOW! I had exactly this idea at a Hackaton festival called Codebits in Portugal in November last year and presented it[1] to the audience but didn't receive that much excitement from them about my implementation done in 12 hours using JS and Rails3. Now I see I should have stick to it. Deep inside me I knew if the service would be useful to me, it would be to some other folks, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't…

In that case this will provide some good market research for you.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#87
Holy shit, this is amazing. I'm really into electronic music, and when I am listening to new music online (youtube, music blogs, etc.) I don't always take the time to download songs right then. Instead, I simply record the artist and title in a txt file. I uploaded my electro.txt file to roll.io and out came a perfect playlist for all the music (~500 songs) I liked, but haven't downloaded.

This is awesome

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#89
post #30

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.

Yeah, I had uploaded the first 10 chapters of Moby Dick, all along thinking "what is this annoying video playing," before realizing it doesn't do a StarWars scroller.

Re: Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#90

WOW! I had exactly this idea at a Hackaton festival called Codebits in Portugal in November last year and presented it[1] to the audience but didn't receive that much excitement from them about my implementation done in 12 hours using JS and Rails3. Now I see I should have stick to it. Deep inside me I knew if the service would be useful to me, it would be to some other folks, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't…

How about iterating on your idea? Here's an idea of mine for free (I came up with this as I was reading your comment, so feel free to critique it): Instead of uploading a text file, a user can type in an artist and song title on their smartphone. This gets added to a playlist that's displaying on a large monitor/TV/projector screen. This could pick songs from YouTube/iTunes/Winamp etc. Uses: - Nightclubs. People can…

I am totally into this idea and I'm looking right now (experienced javascript, python, java + MBA). If anyone is serious about doing this, let me know. I can code and raise cash.
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