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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 ashraful »

BaconJuice wrote: post #19

Are you planning on making a mobile friendly version?

It should work on mobile devices, although a few tweaks in the CSS is needed to make the UI adapt properly. I'll make those in the coming weeks.

If I find people using the site regularly, I'll create a mobile app for it.

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

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jdonahue wrote: post #20
ashraful wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't. I simply play the first result that youtube returns. 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…

Yes, I did consider making the exact process you described for videos. Held off on it to launch earlier. Maybe in the next version I'll finally add this.

I'm primarily a designer (just learning to code php and ruby) so I'm happy that you liked the interface.

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

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Post by ashraful »

[deleted] wrote: post #23

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Thanks. I'm a designer by trade(madebyargon.com) so good user experience is a very important factor for me. I'm glad you think YouFM is relatively bug-free but I think there's still a lot of UI inconsistencies and bugs in YouFM. But I'll be working on it and hopefully improving it. I also hope to improve the overall speed of the site.

But for now, I appreciate all the feedback.

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