Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful? • Hacker News Board

patrickk wrote: post #78

miguelpais wrote: post #70

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 was thinking of building something like this, too.

I was going to start in cafes, and monetize by charging the cafe for the service. The patrons get the jukebox-ey service for free, and the cafe pays a small monthly subscription.

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

#95

Post by zem » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 6:43 AM UTC

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #68

zem wrote: post #58

feature request: allow me to append to a playlist without resetting

Just upload your text file again.

that isn't seamless - it stops the currently playing song

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

#96

Post by resdirector » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 9:46 AM UTC

Request:

Ability to enter in wikipedia track listing URL, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track...

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

#97

Post by ses » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 10:19 AM UTC

I wasn't sure about this when I read your tag line here but I have to say that is pretty nifty. I think its the sheer simplicity that makes it a pleasure to use, typing a bunch of song titles seems to actually be quite a natural way to get a playlist together.

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

#98

Post by krig » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 11:10 AM UTC

A similar idea to the linked text file (not to roll.io itself) is http://www.tuneset.com/ (disclosure: made by a friend of mine).

roll.io is awesome though. Just making and sharing lists of talks broken up in several videos, things like this.. I wanted this exact thing just yesterday without knowing it.

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

#99

Post by bekirdag » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 12:04 PM UTC

resdirector wrote: post #96

Request: Ability to enter in wikipedia track listing URL, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track...

Can you give me at least two different examples of this type of listing please? If it's generic, we can prepare a connector for this.

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

#100

Post by retube » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 2:01 PM UTC

Apart from (annoyingly and without warning) playing the best matching track to your query/text line, how is this different from youtube search?