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Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by jpadilla_ »

awad wrote: post #47

This seems pretty cool but I think you might have been banned...the player won't play. Which basically inevitably happens to every app I've seen that grabs songs off YouTube and repurposes it. The one that most sticks out to me is the old Songza.

Yea, I think we may have been banned.

Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by jpadilla_ »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #44

None of the songs are available (Here is a screenshot after I made the player visible: http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg ) You guys may have been banned... looks like YouTube doesn't like to have its player hidden.

Seems like we may have been banned :(

Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by freeslave »

jpadilla_ wrote: post #53
jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #44

None of the songs are available (Here is a screenshot after I made the player visible: http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg ) You guys may have been banned... looks like YouTube doesn't like to have its player hidden.

Seems like we may have been banned :(

Indeed, this app totally violates the YouTube API terms:

You aren't allowed to:

"separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

access any portion of any YouTube audiovisual content by any means other than use of a YouTube player or other video player expressly authorized by YouTube;"

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

Why wouldn't you read the API terms and comply with them before wasting all the development effort on something that will only get shut down? My advice is switch to the soundcloud API. http://developers.soundcloud.com/

Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by knowtheledge »

jpadilla_ wrote: post #4
kposehn wrote: post #3

Interesting. How are you playing the YouTube track in there?

We are just hiding the Youtube chromeless player away with some CSS and hooking up to it with js to make our own player

Isn't that strictly against youtube TOS?

Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by sachitgupta »

jpadilla_ wrote: post #50
sachitgupta wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same issue in Chrome. Love the design!

What kind of issues did you see on Chrome?

Same as roryokane, couldn't play the tracks. Clicking next goes to the next song, but no sound.

EDIT: Also, the pause button thing, here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/sachitgupta/89s6a/flirttape

Re: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

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Post by jamesrcole »

majormajor wrote: post #45
100k wrote: post #8

With a name like flirttape, how are you supposed to pretend you're just being casual?

Well, you shouldn't. So it's a good name!

Even if you shouldn't (and I'm not convinced that's necessarily true), that does not therefore mean it's a good name.
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