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

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Post by p4bl0 »

ashraful wrote: post #21
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.

It's too bad that hiding the video is against YouTube's TOS. Most of the time the video is a single static image anyway.

About your second point, I didn't ask for "letting users download the music or the video", when I said that I download the music it can be from many sources, most of the time .zip or .rar files that the artists put on mediafire or some services like this.

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

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Post by jfc »

Brilliant. I listen to music on YouTube alot; this is something I've been looking for. Easy to use, very clean look.

As soon as you implement the playlist feature, I plan to use it.

One question: What sort of limits do you have on the searching? I have a song I listen to on YouTube and when I type in the song or artist, it doesn't come up.

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

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Post by jensnockert »

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…

If Youtube doesn't work in Youtify, you probably have some sort of flash blocker installed. If you don't, a bug report would be appreciated. (https://github.com/youtify/youtify)

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

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Post by ashraful »

jfc wrote: post #32

Brilliant. I listen to music on YouTube alot; this is something I've been looking for. Easy to use, very clean look. As soon as you implement the playlist feature, I plan to use it. One question: What sort of limits do you have on the searching? I have a song I listen to on YouTube and when I type in the song or artist, it doesn't come up.

I'm searching iTunes, and then searching youtube with the query " - " and then playing the first result.

Sometimes iTunes does not have a song, or the query doesn't return the correct video.

I'm trying to figure out a way to solve these cases, but haven't come up with a decent solution yet.

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

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Post by p4bl0 »

jensnockert wrote: post #34
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…

If Youtube doesn't work in Youtify, you probably have some sort of flash blocker installed. If you don't, a bug report would be appreciated. ( https://github.com/youtify/youtify )

I don't have any flashblocker installed. I thought it was because of HTTPS Everywhere but I disabled it temporarily and got the same result. Anyway I won't add an exception rule to HTTPS Everywhere for YouTube. So I have no clue at all what the cause could be, I don't think a "it doesn't work for me" bug report would be of any help.

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

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Post by jfc »

ashraful wrote: post #37
jfc wrote: post #32

Brilliant. I listen to music on YouTube alot; this is something I've been looking for. Easy to use, very clean look. As soon as you implement the playlist feature, I plan to use it. One question: What sort of limits do you have on the searching? I have a song I listen to on YouTube and when I type in the song or artist, it doesn't come up.

I'm searching iTunes, and then searching youtube with the query " - " and then playing the first result. Sometimes iTunes does not have a song, or the query doesn't return the correct video. I'm trying to figure out a way to solve these cases, but haven't come up with a decent solution yet.

Ah, makes sense. The song isn't in iTunes; I recently requested that Apple add it to their database.

Thanks for the clarification. This site is awesome.

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