Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish) • Hacker News Board

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#31

Post by mqlpideste » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:04 PM UTC

Could you add a repeat function.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#32

Post by theone » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:23 PM UTC

mqlpideste wrote: post #31

Could you add a repeat function.

I'd plan to add this functionality, in the meanwhile you can use this chrome plugin for youtube. http://www.nikesh.me/blog/2011/05/repeat-youtube-video-autom...

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#33

Post by theone » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:32 PM UTC

calinet6 wrote: post #27

I could never really use this for long listening because the sound quality of youtube music is so variable. It would be pretty annoying. Otherwise, very cool concept and good implementation!

In absence of quality music services like rdio, pendora, spotify, songza, in India. Youtube is still a great alternative for music. In fact for many of us youtube is the default destination for finding and listening music.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#34

Post by danielweber » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:43 PM UTC

I've been using it all morning. Sometimes it takes me on a really weird path of music I would never have gone on myself. Thanks.

There's way too much Javascript, so I think I'm missing a lot of the UI. I only have youtube.com and appspot.com allowed.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#35

Post by williamle8300 » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

I like the creative thinking behind the idea. Just to let yo know.. there are some bugs with Safari 5.1.7.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#36

Post by theone » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 3:58 PM UTC

williamle8300 wrote: post #35

I like the creative thinking behind the idea. Just to let yo know.. there are some bugs with Safari 5.1.7.

Thanks for pointing it out, I have only tested it for Chrome. Will surely look its working on other browsers.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#37

Post by zackb » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

Really cool! I've been using it all morning too. I love the UI and the responsiveness. I'm sure you're working on it but would love the ability to create, save, and share playlists. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#38

Post by tedmiston » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

williamle8300 wrote: post #35

I like the creative thinking behind the idea. Just to let yo know.. there are some bugs with Safari 5.1.7.

Is there supposed to be a player control or something in the middle of the screen? (It's blank.)

Safar 5.1.7 / OS X 10.7.4

Edit: Weird results redrawing the graphics when resizing the window with Chrome 21.0.1180.89 on Mac OS X.

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#39

Post by level09 » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 4:01 PM UTC

Does it use Youtube API ? Does it use an algorithm to identify videos that are "Music" videos ?

Re: Unlimited music from youtube videos (very alpha'ish)

#40

Post by tedmiston » Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

gubatron wrote: post #26

mtgx wrote: post #21

Google shutting this down in 3..2..1..

don't see why, they're using the youtube player and the same youtube search results. However, why even do this if you can do exactly the same on the youtube website or inside google+ Doesn't really add any value that youtube already gives you. Search for non music and the illusion dies. Cool UI though.

Is there any way to preload in the background so that you don't have the awkward pause between song changes? That'd be really great.