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Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

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Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

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Post by squidi »

jeremylevy wrote: post #11
squidi wrote: post #3

Overall it's really good. I'm going to have this running in a tab for a while :) Some thoughts: - A couple of times the audio dropped. Each time I noticed the mute button was engaged and even unmuting the audio did not come back. Not sure what happened. - The progress bar caused a usability issue for me. It's so instinctual to hover at the bottom of the video and I didn't realise why nothing was responding. - Is it p…

Thanks, for this ! Can you tell me your OS / Browser version ? You think video thumbnails should replace album covers ? You don't see the black scrollbar next to playlist ?

Windows 7 with Chrome (Version 28.0.1500.52 m - latest version). I cannot see the scroll bar: http://imgur.com/bkHWj9d

Maybe album covers are better in general. It's just that on the OK Computer playlist most of the videos were imitations and it would have been easier to see if I could preview them (http://en-us.blynde.com/#!ok-computer)

Good luck with it!

Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

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Post by Amarandei »

Really nice work. I love that the HD button stays active and loads all videos in HD. I also like the arrows shortcuts for next and previous video. Makes it much easier to skip tracks.

One minor recommendation: when the video is in full screen, the full screen arrows from the icon should be pointed inwards. Just being picky :)

Great Youtube implementation. Congrats.

Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

#26

Post by jeremylevy »

nudetayne wrote: post #18

I made the mistake of not opening a new tab and was unable to navigate away from your site using the back button. :(

Yes, currently I use hashbang instead of html5 history api. I will change this in future update. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

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Post by monkmartinez »

I don't say this lightly, but this is fucking awesome!!

Wondering how hard it would be to implement a function that would search for all the variations of a particular song. Lets say I want to see all the remix versions of Lykke Li - Little Bit, as an example...

Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

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Post by jeremylevy »

bwangtx wrote: post #21

Fantastic! A couple of thoughts: one is whether the lyrics can be shown and synchronized along with singing and with on/off feature, and the other is whether the video can be turned off for office users.

Thanks ! Good idea for the lyrics :) ! If I want to comply with the YouTube's API terms of use I can't turn off video. Sorry :(

Re: Show HN: Blynde – A new way to listen music on Youtube (user:demo, pwd:123456)

#30

Post by stephengillie »

Cool service. I'll have to use this instead of Youtube's auto-generated playlists.

I'm not sure if it's a bug but...I was streaming a local radio station and searched for the artist I was listening to. Blynde search autosuggested the song to which I was already listening (it's a very popular song). In the playlist, this same song is showing up every 2-3 songs -- not even remixes of the same tune, but the same original mix of the song.

I'm on the 2nd time around of this song, and I'll hear it again in ~3 minutes, ~9 minutes, ~12 minutes, and ~18 minutes.

Edit: re-searching (searching again) seems to have cleared this up.

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