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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 »

Daiz wrote: post #40
ashraful wrote: post #2

A little background: http://ashraful.me/?p=7

>YouFM is a simple music streaming site that searches Spotify for the data and then plays the music video from Youtube. No wonder it couldn't find anything for most of the artists I tried, then, despite a whole lot of their stuff being on YouTube... And for the one it did, the song matching seemed incredibly spotty (try searching for Huoratron and playing the song A699F, for example). Some other feedback: You should…

Actually in the next update, I'll add direct results from youtube for searches that doesn't return anything from Spotify. I just have to figure out how to get the song metadata in a meaningful way for those.

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

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Post by OGinparadise »

I am trying to use it but the "working" image is still spinning. Anyway, what happens when /if Youtube shuts you down? Google is getting into streaming music and has Play so they might consider you a competitor.

I am hoping that you have a plan B and didn't spend all your time and savings in this.

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

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Post by cjstewart88 »

ashraful wrote: post #36
ntaylor wrote: post #34

You have a competitor, in case you hadn't already noticed: http://www.tubalr.com .

Yes. Youfm was actually (partly) inspired by Tubalr back when it was first launched (almost 3 years ago I think).

Glad to have inspired you :). Tubalr was launched Sept 12, 2010. Just curious, how are you able to embed vevo videos?

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

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Post by udfalkso »

ashraful wrote: post #16
udfalkso wrote: post #15

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…

Good suggestions, I'll definitely make these improvements. I also need to make some improvements to the UI (didn't get a chance to test it properly outside chrome on osx, seems to have a lot of annoyances on other browsers and platforms) Ctrl click or Cmd click should let you select multiple songs that you can then drag onto playlists.

Cool, thanks. I guess I tried to use shift. Might also be nice to let me drag an album name and include all the songs if I do so.
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