Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

Post by sirfrankiecrisp » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

ike0790 wrote: post #70

sirfrankiecrisp wrote: post #69

Maybe a bit of a dumb question, but how can one be sure that this doesn't steal my credentials when logging in with spotify? It's open source, so I guess someone would probably have figured it out if it did by now, but is there a way to be sure or is it even possible?

how can you be sure that any web site asking for google authentication doesn't "steal" your goolge data? The reason is because of a protocol called Oath2.

Post by websap » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #33

justusthane wrote: post #29

This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)

I still have my original iPods. The original and the mini chromatic ones. When I'm on the go and or in a gym and I need to play music, nothing beats a simple mp3 player. Don't want the bulk of the phone. Don't want to have to touch a phone screen and engage with it. I'd rather just reach into my pocket and press buttons.

Post by jonny_eh » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

corobo wrote: post #68

btown wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simpler than one might think - once you do the math to project each touch/mouse event down to an angle, you just need to quantize the angle to a certain number of discrete options (which you can measure on an actual device), look at the event stream of such angle events pairwise, and take the sign of the pairwise difference as right/left or up/down! The much harder part when designing the iPods themselves was to buil…

"just" haha

Post by breck » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #29

This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)

Post by kfarr » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:37 PM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #29

This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)