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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 wubbfindel »

rane wrote: post #3

Like 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.

Yup, that's the first thing I noticed.

Having a spotify/itunes-esq UI for youtube is a great idea, but this is just ripping off Spotify a bit too closely IMHO.

However, I seem to remember that a German competitor for Spotify has done almost the exact same UI copy - so maybe Spotify aren't that bothered by it. It's not as if their UI is that ground breaking (as someone else comments, it much like iTunes), it's the backend tech that makes Spotify so good.

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

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Post by p4bl0 »

jjwiseman wrote: post #69
p4bl0 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ah you're right. I didn't realize that because I'm using AdBlock+ so I don't see ads.

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

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Post by dpacmittal »

ashraful wrote: post #65
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.

For the wrong video, maybe you can see the likes to dislike ratio? That would filter out lot of bad music too but I guess that's not what you want.

Another way is to use some API to look for the song title and duration, and match it with the duration of youtube video with +-10 seconds.

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

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Post by Jonovono »

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…

I made http://www.tunesicles.com . It allows you to easily search youtube (you can search for an album and instantly add all the songs to a playlist). Not sure if this is something like what you would like!

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

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Post by SkyMarshal »

bbrian wrote: post #7
rane wrote: post #3

Like 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.

I've never seen Spotify and thought it was just like iTunes, but with the controls at the bottom.

Pretty much that, and darker shades of grey.

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

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Post by jensnockert »

p4bl0 wrote: post #39
jensnockert wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

HTTPS Everywhere has had known issue with youtify, so that could be the issue. What browser are you using?
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