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

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Post by 3000000001 »

gccs wrote: post #146
patrickk wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found cheap yet decent earbuds from Aliexpress and a cheap 3.5mm bluetooth receiver that solves the earbuds falling out of your ears problem. Every time I hear about issues people have with AirPods I'm so glad I went with this solution, and spent a fraction of the money too. If I pop the bluetooth receiver off the 3.5mm jack, I can use it with my (growing) iPod classic collection. The only reason I even use bluetoo…

Can you reccomend decent earbuds from aliexpress? I bought some but they still had a strong chemical smell after I let them offgas for a week.

Anything from KZ. I’m personally using their ZSTs at the moment but the ZSN is probably the go-to

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

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Post by numpad0 »

Milner08 wrote: post #143
matsemann wrote: post #65

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Might be because I never owned one myself, but I've always felt the interface incredibly clunky and the navigation hard to grasp. It's not something intuitive you know how to use just by looking at it.

I think its because you never spent time with one. I always found them incredibly intuitive and easy to use.

I think OP’s right, everyone “knew” how to operate an iPod through advertisement and probably few had to figure it out on their own. It was simple and consistent enough that they looked intuitive but maybe it wasn’t.

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

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Post by patrickk »

gccs wrote: post #146
patrickk wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found cheap yet decent earbuds from Aliexpress and a cheap 3.5mm bluetooth receiver that solves the earbuds falling out of your ears problem. Every time I hear about issues people have with AirPods I'm so glad I went with this solution, and spent a fraction of the money too. If I pop the bluetooth receiver off the 3.5mm jack, I can use it with my (growing) iPod classic collection. The only reason I even use bluetoo…

Can you reccomend decent earbuds from aliexpress? I bought some but they still had a strong chemical smell after I let them offgas for a week.

I got the KBEAR Lark Hybrid earbuds. Incredible price to performance ratio. They wrap up around your ears so nothing is getting them off your head except deliberately removing them. The Chinese have massively upped their quality game in recent years, it’s no longer cheap shite that takes a month to arrive.

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

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Post by junon »

matsemann wrote: post #145
Milner08 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think its because you never spent time with one. I always found them incredibly intuitive and easy to use.

That's kinda my point, though. You couldn't just pick up the iPod connected to the speakers at a friends' place and instantly know how to switch songs. While virtually every other mp3 at the time had a d-pad with labeled buttons easily understood.

I really contest this. The UI of the iPods were great. I don't recall anyone having issues, including elderly, etc.

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

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Post by junon »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #123

How long till apple pulls this down with trademark claim? Should be roughly instant.

Which is dumb. All this made me do is think about getting an old iPod again. Seems like a missed opportunity on Apple's part tbh, especially now that people are getting tired of being 'online' all the time.

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Post by nmstoker »

fedorareis wrote: post #142
nmstoker wrote: post #67

Whilst it looks nice, is no one else concerned with passing details to some unknown site? It doesn't seem to have any direct way to make contact nor is there a privacy policy (nor is there anything obviously relevant in the GitHub repo for the code either)

The site uses both Spotify and Apple Music’s standard oauth flows. You aren’t providing your credentials to the site directly and the site requests access to a very limited set of your data. So, no people shouldn’t be concerned.

They would get your email according to the Spotify sign in. I didn't mean to imply people would be giving their credentials (hence why I said details but I get why you misunderstood)

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Post by Biggsie »

kfarr wrote: post #80
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 :)

Agreed! And given the source code is available maybe someone could hack together a prototype of this Onion classic: https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA

OMG. Thanks for bringing back that Onion classic. The sentence suggestions are legendary Onion.

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

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Post by sirfrankiecrisp »

prezjordan wrote: post #82
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?

Not a dumb question, very much appreciate you keeping an eye out for your password security. It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on accounts.spotify.com (Spotify-owned) and then Spotify gives this developer a token (rather than a username+password) to access your data (usually a very limited subset of data outlined on the login page).

Oh I see, makes sense! Thanks for the answer - very much appreciated!
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