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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 jzukoff »

rationalbeats wrote: post #43
arkitaip wrote: post #33

The blatant theft of Spotify's look and feel makes me not want to use this service. Screenshot of Spotify http://i.imgur.com/Um0HM.png

Never used Spotify before, but the screen shot you just posted looks just like iTunes to me.

Spotify and iTunes may have similar UI but this site and Spotify are identical. One can assume Spotify was inspired by the design of iTunes, since well, lets be honest, its how everybody now pictures their music players. This site on the other hand had done nothing new at all, its blatant theft of Spotify's interface.

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

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Post by hhimanshu »

fredsted wrote: post #44

Neat idea! I also made something similar that allows you to easily make playlists from YouTube videos: http://instadj.com

How have you implemented the queue and manipulation on lists like previous, next, shuffle? would love to know about it

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

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Post by ashraful »

cwp wrote: post #60

Love the idea! I mainly use YouTube to find interesting music, and this would (will?) make that easier. The interface seems sketchy though. Sometimes clicking on a song in the results list doesn't do anything. Other times there's a little flash, but it doesn't switch to playing that song. Sometimes it selects the song and the video appears to load, but it doesn't actually start playing. In general, the UI is frustrat…

The video not playing properly is an issue with the Youtube Chromeless player I used. I probably messed up the javascript somehow. I'll have it fixed when I implement the new UI.

The wrong video issue is simply the result of the first video result from youtube being wrongly tagged. I can't really do anything about it.

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

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Post by ashraful »

nightpool wrote: post #59
ashraful wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will do the multiple videos thing in the next version.

Cool! Any thoughts on sorting (and possibly adding a bit more metadata to sort with)?

I'm looking for a good API to use that provides enough metadata. Spotify is probably a good choice. I'll add the sorting.

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

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Post by jjwiseman »

p4bl0 wrote: post #31
ashraful wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But if you hide the video, YouTube has no way to show the ads it wants to show you.
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