Nice project :) For my own use, I keep a list of such youtube stations in a file and use a script to play through them (I can specify by srl no., shuffle, play a random station etc). Much more lighter on the system as I use mpv to just play the audio stream. Also, allows me to repurpose the script for various lists for various genre.
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#102Do you people really like such music? I admit these backgrounds require a bit of effort to make. But what's the point? To use it as a screensaver?
> Do you people really like such music?
I like it, but I use it moreso for when I want to tune out noises in my surroundings with something other than say, "bird noises" or "distance thunderstorm".
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#103Haha, I built a super similar thing last year with even a super similar url ( https://lofi.chat )! https://lofi.chat/r/Hacker-news-310e9120 Good vibes only
A chat makes things way more interesting, but we need to be able to browse for rooms too (as long as the room's creator want his room public)
I'll def add it!
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ouch you're totally right. I want to add an option to have static JPGs instead of GIFs. Already added to the backlog.
Video may be cheap, too: h.264 or WebM are relatively low cost on even reasonably modern devices.
To go in the opposite direction, if you wanted to add an option for people fine with large CPU/GPU expenditure (i.e., if this were playing on a dedicated TV in an actual café), it might be fun to add a WebGL canvas and make lofi/vaporwave-inspired effects [0].
[0]: http://hands.wtf/rad
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#105i like these kind of projects.
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#106So happy that we now have the free CPU power to digitally add fake surface noises to synthesized music.
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#107Dope! I love those, don't know what the name is, "kinda vaporwave old school" styles
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#108It's all fun and games 'til you learn that YouTube's terms don't allow you to embed their player in any way that disables/hides their UI and logos. Source: A similar project I made like 8 years ago. Edit: But don't get me wrong, I like it nonetheless!
I guess that's when you double down and just scrape Invidious[1] for the audio files. edit: The Firefox extension "Privacy Redirect"[2] also uses Invidious to automatically redirect all youtube links, and does similar things for pages like reddit and twitter to their respective "mirrors". [1]: https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
For anyone else wondering "what the heck is invidious?", from their github[1]: "Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube." Cool!
But man, classic open source: the front page of those docs says nothing about what the heck the project is, just a list of URLs to visit, and the main website[2] is just an under-construction page with a link to the github repo.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Show hn posts are already self-promotion so isn't it reasonable for other people to also be able to promote similar things they've created?
I think there's a line where it stops being reasonable. If I know every comment on a Show HN is going to be blatant self promotion, I'm not going to view those posts even if the OP is interesting to me.
Sounds like a good solution - stop viewing them.