[New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM • Hacker News Board

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by augy » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 6:14 AM UTC

I am in love. this is making my life better. thank you.

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by darius » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 7:11 AM UTC

zach wrote: post #6

Wow, this is really sharp-looking stuff. I like Flash for this kind of one-window interface - very responsive. Certain other sites have a UI that's like slogging through mashed potatoes. Good work. Say, I'd like to experiment with Flash stuff but I have to admit I am totally Macromedia-illiterate. Does anyone know what tools are used to build apps like this?

Open Laszlo is another choice.

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by staunch » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 7:29 AM UTC

mark-t wrote: post #7

mark-t wrote: post #5

Looks great. My one complaint so far is that I can't just choose a directory to upload. (yes, I know why this is impossible with browser features, but it's what I expect from a music player) Oh, and it only seems to accept .mp3 files -- I've got a fair number of .ogg, .wma, .aac, etc. That's probably my computer's doing, though, since it wouldn't be a very good iTunes clone without insisting on .aac.

Actually, upon further investigation, it doesn't seem to let me upload anything at all. The response seems to vary between remaining at 0 progress indefinitely and crashing firefox. I'm guessing this is another no-linux site for now, probably because of flash. Oh well. My laptop goes everywhere, anyway.

Same problems using The Linux, which is my desktop and laptop. Although I'm happy to have it finally Flash 9 for The Linux has all sorts of issues. Adobe's to blame.

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by staunch » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 7:36 AM UTC

zach wrote: post #10

I wonder whose credit card is on the Amazon S3 account. They must be very brave.

"Fortune favors the brave" and all that. They're setting themselves up to be wildly popular and in a deep financial crisis at the same time. I guess it beats obscurity.

Let the VC gods lift up their countenance upon them!

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by mark-t » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 7:47 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #13

mark-t wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, upon further investigation, it doesn't seem to let me upload anything at all. The response seems to vary between remaining at 0 progress indefinitely and crashing firefox. I'm guessing this is another no-linux site for now, probably because of flash. Oh well. My laptop goes everywhere, anyway.

Same problems using The Linux, which is my desktop and laptop. Although I'm happy to have it finally Flash 9 for The Linux has all sorts of issues. Adobe's to blame.

Yup, file upload works in IE6 under wine, though. I used IEs4Linux, which you can get at http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page . I also use this for web development work, and it's great, besides the obvious.

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by rms » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 8:27 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #14

zach wrote: post #10

I wonder whose credit card is on the Amazon S3 account. They must be very brave.

"Fortune favors the brave" and all that. They're setting themselves up to be wildly popular and in a deep financial crisis at the same time. I guess it beats obscurity. Let the VC gods lift up their countenance upon them!

Seems like a good strategy for raising money quickly. The Techcrunching certainly doesn't hurt. Of course, the site is down as a write this.

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by yubrew » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 9:53 AM UTC

One of the techcrunch comments said that the itunes UI is patented.[0] Any thoughts on this?

Anyways, it's very cool and useful. grats.

[0] http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?IDX=WO02061563&CY=gb&#38...

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by tcwc » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 10:06 AM UTC

Looks amazing. And not a single negative comment on Techcrunch?!

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by trajan » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 12:28 PM UTC

rms wrote: post #3

Cool. Is legal precedent such that this is definitely legal?

Yeah, this seems to be the only question. The interface is wonderful and it's instantly useful to me, but I can't imagine this will be allowed to stand as is.

Though I would have said the same thing about YouTube...

Re: [New YC startup] Listen To Your Music anywhere on the web with Anywhere.FM

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Post by ivankirigin » Fri, Aug 03, 2007, 12:59 PM UTC

yubrew wrote: post #17

One of the techcrunch comments said that the itunes UI is patented.[0] Any thoughts on this? Anyways, it's very cool and useful. grats. [0] http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?IDX=WO02061563&CY=gb&#38...

probably just the music store -- and probably just some small part of it.

there are plenty of good interfaces