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YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by phpnode »

yoodit wrote: post #12
phpnode wrote: post #4

I couldn't get this to work, after selecting a song it appears to work for ~30 seconds and replies with "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on YouTube." or "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on SoundCloud."

What songs? I'll check

`Kiesza - Hideaway`. Other songs do work and the app is pretty impressive, but I find the UI for lining up lyrics really awkward, it doesn't seem to be possible to move all of them at once so if the start offset is wrong it's really painful to use. For an example see `Le Youth - Cool`

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by tjr »

Wow, at a glance, this appears to be the best auto-chord-transcribers I've used. I'm getting much more usable data out of this than others that I've tried.

Do you intend for it to be able to hear altered chords?... #5, b5, etc? It didn't seem to be catching that on a song I submitted, but it got the root and third correct, which is still helpful.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by ebbv »

This is really cool. The thing that's obviously missing to me is chord charts to go along with the chord names. Despite the fact that people can look up the chord elsewhere, the tool would be much more useful to novice players (who are probably the majority of likely users) to simply provide those charts.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by tech-no-logical »

yoodit wrote: post #18
tech-no-logical wrote: post #8

sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube ad nauseum. nice project, but doomed to fail because of this. why the downvotes ? even their TOS sort of acknowledges it will not work : YouTab respects your copyrights and the copyrights of others and therefore requires that you on…

BTW, what we do is completely legal for any song, we did our legal work.

oh come on, 90% of what's on the site now is in clear violation of the TOS I quoted. or are you suggesting that, for example, user 'Descending' owns the rights to 'Help' from the Beatles ?

how do you explain these rules in regard to this :

YouTab also requires that the music videos that you attach to your tablature shall be your own or videos which you are licensed to display; for example, you are not allowed to embed an unlicensed Metallica video and write down your tabs for that song.

true, you have covered yourself by stating these things in your TOS, but after removing all videos that are not in accordance, you're left with an empty site.

seriously, from a technical point of view I love projects like these, but I cannot see how this could ever work in the long run if it's dependent on youtube. at least not as long as large record companies exist and enforce their copyrights as they tend to do.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by tech-no-logical »

dethstar wrote: post #19
tech-no-logical wrote: post #8

sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube sorry this video has been removed from youtube ad nauseum. nice project, but doomed to fail because of this. why the downvotes ? even their TOS sort of acknowledges it will not work : YouTab respects your copyrights and the copyrights of others and therefore requires that you on…

Here's the reason for your downvotes: Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

fair enough.

but the criticism stands : it's hardly useful for me as every 2 out of 3 songs will not work. probably because I'm in europe, but still. and I can't suggest alternatives, there aren't any with copyright laws being what they are.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

phpnode wrote: post #21
yoodit wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What songs? I'll check

`Kiesza - Hideaway`. Other songs do work and the app is pretty impressive, but I find the UI for lining up lyrics really awkward, it doesn't seem to be possible to move all of them at once so if the start offset is wrong it's really painful to use. For an example see `Le Youth - Cool`

To move everything at once drag the the body of the segment (not in between). That will move everything from that point on.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

tech-no-logical wrote: post #25
yoodit wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BTW, what we do is completely legal for any song, we did our legal work.

oh come on, 90% of what's on the site now is in clear violation of the TOS I quoted. or are you suggesting that, for example, user 'Descending' owns the rights to 'Help' from the Beatles ? how do you explain these rules in regard to this : YouTab also requires that the music videos that you attach to your tablature shall be your own or videos which you are licensed to display; for example, you are not allowed to embe…

OK, so here goes:

1. The site is DMCA compliant 2. Lyrics are provided legally through musixmatch 3. Chords as they are presented on the site are legal. We spent a lot of time and money making sure of that.

Yes, the TOS should be updated which I will take care ASAP.

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