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No reason for it to be shutdown. All music videos are from Youtube (provided legally by the original artists, their labels or Vevo) and I followed Youtube's requirement of not hiding the video player when playing songs (which a lot of similar sites do, and is against Youtube's TOS)
Is this the smallest allowable size you can make the videos legally?
I feel this will be shutdown before the end of the week.
It doesn't like Beethoven apparently and says "oops something went wrong", same goes for Moonlight Sonata.
I ran a search for "Moonlight Sonata" and got results just fine: http://www.youfm.org/#/search/Moonlight Sonata
- You should add custom page titles for each album, search result, etc. It's hard to figure out what's what in the Back menu in my browser because they're all the same.
- Would be nice to have a way to drag multiple songs, or an entire album into a playlist.
- When dragging, droppable zones (playlists) should highlight, and when hovering over them the highlight should get even stronger so I know it's ready to be dropped.
- History doesn't seem to work.
Well done! I think I'll use this. A few suggestions: - You should add custom page titles for each album, search result, etc. It's hard to figure out what's what in the Back menu in my browser because they're all the same. - Would be nice to have a way to drag multiple songs, or an entire album into a playlist. - When dragging, droppable zones (playlists) should highlight, and when hovering over them the highlight sho…
Ctrl click or Cmd click should let you select multiple songs that you can then drag onto playlists.
It's nice, but how is this different than from any other yt player out there?
The interface is better for listening to music (I hope). Also, the search is run on Spotify so you only get music results.
[0] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PJ+%26+Duncan+Le...
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The interface is better for listening to music (I hope). Also, the search is run on Spotify so you only get music results.
Good idea using Spotify to get metadata. I did something similar a few years ago, mine was a bit different in that instead of searching for a specific artist you get different channels you can watch, similar to MTV. One of the issues I had then was that you don't just get the official videos in results for popular songs [0], how do you solve that? [0] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PJ+%26+Duncan+Le...
For more obscure artists/songs or for those with generic names, YouFM might play the wrong video if Youtube returns the wrong result. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix it except crowd-sourced curation.
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Good idea using Spotify to get metadata. I did something similar a few years ago, mine was a bit different in that instead of searching for a specific artist you get different channels you can watch, similar to MTV. One of the issues I had then was that you don't just get the official videos in results for popular songs [0], how do you solve that? [0] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PJ+%26+Duncan+Le...
I don't. I simply play the first result that youtube returns. For more obscure artists/songs or for those with generic names, YouFM might play the wrong video if Youtube returns the wrong result. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix it except crowd-sourced curation.
I had thought of a similar idea to what this website does (using song metadata from a cleaned source like Spotify and then play the song through YouTube).
The way I'd imagined doing the song to YouTube mapping was through crowdsourcing - you could rank the YouTube results for each song based on number of listens and votes on your website. By default you would play the top ranked video for a song, but allow users to see alternate video links (probably hidden behind menus) and play those instead if they want (or if they have accounts, you could allow users to individually mark a video as being their preference for a particular song, etc.), probably also incorporating these plays into your ranking. You could also use crowdsourcing for further metadata about the video - e.g., some music videos have long intros/outros that you wouldn't necessarily want to hear when you're just listening to music, so you could allow people to submit and vote on start/end times for the 'song' part of the music video.
Anyway, I really like the interface! It's much cleaner than any other attempt at this I've seen.
Edit: I missed your mention of crowdsourcing at the end of your post, whoops - sounds like you've probably already thought of most/all the ideas in this post :)