iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by stephenou » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search
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Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by sebastianhoitz » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 9:08 PM UTC

Lots of people jumping on the Google Instant train...

Anyways, towards your iTunes instant: Why not offer the possibility to preview songs from your web app? You get the preview URL via the API!

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by thought_alarm » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 9:36 PM UTC

From what I'm hearing, Android Market is the one that needs help with their search.

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by stephenou » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 9:59 PM UTC

thought_alarm wrote: post #3

From what I'm hearing, Android Market is the one that needs help with their search.

That is a definitely a good idea. I will look into it!

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by stephenou » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:00 PM UTC

sebastianhoitz wrote: post #2

Lots of people jumping on the Google Instant train... Anyways, towards your iTunes instant: Why not offer the possibility to preview songs from your web app? You get the preview URL via the API!

Good idea. I think that is totally possible through HTML5 right?

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by johnwong » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:15 PM UTC

stephenou wrote: post #5

sebastianhoitz wrote: post #2

Lots of people jumping on the Google Instant train... Anyways, towards your iTunes instant: Why not offer the possibility to preview songs from your web app? You get the preview URL via the API!

Good idea. I think that is totally possible through HTML5 right?

Yes. Check out Marco Arment's preview.fm. He had a similar web app that allows you to preview album.

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by mcs » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:29 PM UTC

All of these jsonp / iframe based instantizers have to be putting load on servers (probably not in great volume, but still). There's a reason Google had to put special consideration into how to make the ajax-endpoints scale :)

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by stephenou » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:39 PM UTC

johnwong wrote: post #6

stephenou wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea. I think that is totally possible through HTML5 right?

Yes. Check out Marco Arment's preview.fm. He had a similar web app that allows you to preview album.

Oh yeah, I've heard about it before. I will definitely implement it using if it doesn't heavily affect loadtime.

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by stephenou » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:45 PM UTC

mcs wrote: post #7

All of these jsonp / iframe based instantizers have to be putting load on servers (probably not in great volume, but still). There's a reason Google had to put special consideration into how to make the ajax-endpoints scale :)

Yeah, I agree. I will probably cache search results if load time is too slow. Also, I have a 0.5 second delay (after keyup) to execute the search function.

Re: iTunes Instant, Solve 2 Huge iTunes Problems: Cluster Interface & Slow Search

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Post by danielbru » Sun, Sep 12, 2010, 10:47 PM UTC

Awesome work, Stephen!