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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 jeremylevy »

dubcanada wrote: post #12

I think you should get a new logo, the "cloud" logo is already used by tons of companies, and this doesn't really have anything to do with clouds or cloud storage. Regardless of that though it seems very well done. I'm a little confused with the top thing. It's on US I click it and it goes to UK. Though it looks like a select menu. When you click HD, what happens? It would be cool if you could select the levels like…

Thanks for the feedback ! When you click HD, I order the player to load all the videos in the best quality available.

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

#32

Post by lquist »

This thread is a great counterexample to the argument that HN always disses Show HNs.

Constructive criticism: Overall, great work! A "new" way to listen to music on Youtube is not nearly descriptive enough. I don't want a new way to listen to music on Youtube, I want a better way. And much more importantly, how is it better? A landing page would do wonders for you. But again, awesome work!

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

#33

Post by fragmede »

jeremylevy wrote: post #10
phy6 wrote: post #8

Just a black screen with a black cloud for me.. Am I supposed to click something?

Sorry ! :( You are not supposed to click something. Can you tell me your OS / Browser version ?

Same here.

I've got 'click-to-play' enabled - flash doesn't start running until I click on the flash object - and it looks like you've cleverly hidden it so there's no object for me to click on to enable it.

If I disable that the app loads fine.

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

#34

Post by jeremylevy »

MostAwesomeDude wrote: post #17

Sadly, I seem to be unable to convince it to load entire albums, just individual songs. However, it does load unofficial videos, which is quite cool. I'm guessing that it runs a search without being logged in, and takes the first result which is shorter than 30min or so?

Thanks for the feedback ! Yes, you are right. I build blynde to specifically load track not full album. If I allow load entire albums, "artist panel", "your top" and so on became without interest, no ?

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

#35

Post by fragmede »

I looked into doing a similar project, but just FYI you might want to take a read through youtube's TOS: http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

Particularly section 4, General Use of the Service—Permissions and Restrictions.

What you've got is way cool though.

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

#36

Post by mandeepj »

Really great piece of work. UI is neatly polished.

Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more.

It will be great if you can add channels like house music, electronic, trans etc then you can pose threat to Spotify :-)

I had same idea as your's but for android. My friends disagreed with me saying it won't work but I will still do it :-)

We can use youtube as a database to create great interfaces which suck less to listen to music in pain less ways.

Would you mind sharing your tech stack?

Again, great job. Execution done with brilliance

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

#37

Post by jeremylevy »

mandeepj wrote: post #36

Really great piece of work. UI is neatly polished. Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more. It will be great if you can add channels like house music, electronic, trans etc then you can pose threat to Spotify :-) I had same idea as your's but for android. My friends disagreed with me saying it won't work but I will still do it :-) We can…

Thanks ! I will see for channel :). For, tech stack: DEBIAN, PHP, NGINX, MYSQL, REDIS, JQUERY, JQUERY-UI, BACKBONE.JS.

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

#39

Post by scrapcode »

squidi wrote: post #22
jeremylevy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

The scroll bar is there, but it's black.

I agree that you should do something with that. Other than the minor issues this whole project is pretty perfect. It works exactly as I could imagine that I'd want it to, and there's no fluff. Beautiful execution.

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

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Post by jeremylevy »

fragmede wrote: post #35

I looked into doing a similar project, but just FYI you might want to take a read through youtube's TOS: http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms Particularly section 4, General Use of the Service—Permissions and Restrictions. What you've got is way cool though.

Thanks. I use the Youtube API. I read Youtube's TOS, YouTube API's TOS : https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms and Branding Guidelines https://developers.google.com/youtube/branding. Please, tell me if you think I didn't comply with any of this .
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