Confusing UX. I assumed that "top 100 hits" button would give me the top 100 hits for my search term, rather than the search button only being implicit. The placeholder text is a bad position for instruction (as a rule, not just in this case) because it's gone when you are in need of the signpost of what to do.
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#12You may want to set cursor:pointer in your css. At first I didn't think I could click on a track to play it because it just showed the default cursor or, worse, a text-selector cursor.
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#13Nicely done, but I would love a separate column for the bitrage/quality of the music. Most of the music on YouTube is subpar bitrate, and music should usually be heard in decent quality. :)
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#14Cool, my last two web apps ( http://beepmunk.com and http://choruzz.com ) are somewhat similar to this. I love the UI but search results can be improved IMO. Maybe you could utilize Last.fm API for search?
I use Last.FM to find similar songs. It appears in the right sidebar when you play any song.
I didn't use Last.FM for the main search, because I couldn't get the album name directly from the keyword search (the JSON has the title and artist only). Getting the album name would require querying the API for each search result which again I tried but takes about 30 sec for the results to appear.
I am considering using Spotify's API though since iTunes gives strange results sometimes.
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#15Like the idea of having a Spotify-like UI for the vast amount of music on Youtube. Not so much like the fact that it's pretty much Spotify's interface copied to the smallest detail.
About Spotify, a friend of mine using it sent me a link to their website yesterday, and by visiting this link I was logged into her account, could see her personal informations and even change her password. I tweeted[1,2] about it as soon as I realized it. It's really a shame such a big website is so low on security…
I guess it might be a link from their desktop app to their website that she followed, but at least they could redirect to a clean url after having authenticated the user, it's okay that she sent that link to me (it was just to show me the prices of Spotify's monthly subscriptions), but what if she shared it publicly on Twitter or Facebook?
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#16Very cool! Is there a way to make the video larger if you want to actually view the video instead of just using the site as a music player? Perhaps make the area below the video player clickable so that it makes the video appear in a larger area above the song list. I am very impressed. Great work Ashraful!
Thanks a lot. I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jumped straight into coding. The code's mess but it works and that's great. I still have a lot to learn, but I do plan on adding three features: 1. Have new searches not interrupt the current song. 2. Make the video resizable. 3. Add playlists. I actually asked a…
I would also recommend hiding the auto-suggest right hand side bar until everything is loaded and then sliding it into view when ready. I suggest this for 2 reasons,
1. I initially clicked the song and the first thing I noticed, before I the music played was the "this might take 90 seconds dialog" and I was ready to kill the tab thinking.
2. Just the fact that it says this might take a long time, is a 'downer', its better to make that view visible when it is ready so that user doesn't have to ever know of the fact that you have a process that takes 90 seconds.
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#17couldn't get song to play from ipad2. everything else seemed to work, the search is surprisingly good, and I like the UI.
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#18Neat, I made http://www.tubalr.com about 2 years ago and have been working on it every since. It made its way onto Mashable, Techcrunch, and several other blogs this past Dec/Jan. Something to keep in mind, eventually YouTube will start blocking certain videos from being played on your site. This took a while and mainly started happening when traffic picked up. Theres no good way to pickout blocked videos, heres a fu…
Has it really been two years? Tubalr was actually the inspiration for this. I really loved it, particularly the old UI (the new ones great too).
Thanks for the link to the js to avoid blocked youtube vids. It'll definitely be a lot of help.
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#19The UX is really good a nice to the eyes, some suggestions:
I searched for "The Who" and almost 90% of the songs weren't by The Who, but instead song titles with "who". "Bob Dylan" worked fine.
Please, add support for lyrics, that would be simply awesome, and something Grooveshark is lacking.
Some songs just don't play, not sure why.
The search box is like "broken", I can't select with the mouse.
But it's great!
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#20Decent xcution, but rather slow :/