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Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

p4bl0 wrote: post #8

This is a service I would really like. There's also youtify[1], but neither work for me (with youtify Soundcloud works but not YouTube). The music simply never starts. That's too bad because such a "music mode" is something I would love to see on YouTube. It's not that I constantly listen to music on YouTube, that would be a waste of bandwidth, but I use YouTube almost exclusively as a music/artist discovery platform…

Hiding the video and letting users download the music or the video is against Youtube's TOS.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by elteto »

I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Youtube has pretty much all the music that I listen to but it's playlist handling is borderline unusable. Sometimes I wonder if this is something they do on purpose so users can not convert Youtube into a personal jukebox. Overall, great project and kudos to the developer!

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by cjstewart88 »

ashraful wrote: post #18
cjstewart88 wrote: post #6

Neat, 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.

Yup, Sept 12, 2010 will be the 2 year mark o_O

No prob, shoot me an email cjstewart88@gmail.com if you need anything.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

dysoco wrote: post #19

The 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!

The search results are sometimes quite weird. For example I can search for "The Who" now and get all the songs for the artists. I'll change the iTunes API I use now to Spotify's (or Last.FM's) soon.

Sometimes if you click on a song before the javascript for the music player loads it doesn't work. I'll do my best to fix it soon.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by ashraful »

samirahmed wrote: post #16
ashraful wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 b…

Thanks for the tip.

Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by losethos »

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Re: Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube

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Post by habosa »

ashraful wrote: post #10
NathanKP wrote: post #2

Very 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…

This is the first thing you ever coded? That's fantastic, it's a great product.
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