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Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

#11

Post by joelrunyon »

Koldark wrote: post #8

What about OneDrive and Google Drive support?

These comments make sense from end-users but I feel like they're out of place on HN. I mean, sure OneDrive & GoogleDrive support can obviously be implemented down the road, but especially when first showing the idea off - it's way easier to keep it simple and get feedback to improve the product and then later integrate with more services.

These comments remind me of the few apps I've put out that start with an iOS version so we can collect / data & feedback so we can make future versions (on both platforms) better, but that info almost always gets shouted down by chants of "why not an android version?" The obvious answer of "it costs 2x time and resources" to get the first version out, almost always gets completely ignored.

Let's give feedback on this version - help him improve it & then worry about the other service integrations later.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by jkbr »

Koldark wrote: post #8

What about OneDrive and Google Drive support?

When I was looking at Google Drive API some time ago, it didn't—unlike the Dropbox API—support byte serving (partial requests). That is needed for efficient indexing of MP3 files without having to download them first. It may have since changed though. Otherwise I think it would be pretty much analogous to the Dropbox integration.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

#14

Post by scott_s »

joelrunyon wrote: post #11
Koldark wrote: post #8

What about OneDrive and Google Drive support?

These comments make sense from end-users but I feel like they're out of place on HN. I mean, sure OneDrive & GoogleDrive support can obviously be implemented down the road, but especially when first showing the idea off - it's way easier to keep it simple and get feedback to improve the product and then later integrate with more services. These comments remind me of the few apps I've put out that start with an iOS ve…

I think you're taking the question as a veiled criticism. It's possible the question is just a question.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Could this support playing music from S3 and storing/reading metadata as S3 headers? I currently store about 200GB of music in Amazon Cloudplayer, which has recently gone sideways with their push towards Music Prime. I'm currently ripping all my music out and putting it into S3.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by stakecounter »

Really cool. At first glance it seems to me like there might be two products/services here - one that is what you have here minus YouTube and other publicly available media sources, and another centralized web app that provides users access to all public media without having to run their own server. Maybe they could be integrated in a way where users can add their own media sources through the centralized web app to have it all in one place.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

#19

Post by joelrunyon »

scott_s wrote: post #14
joelrunyon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These comments make sense from end-users but I feel like they're out of place on HN. I mean, sure OneDrive & GoogleDrive support can obviously be implemented down the road, but especially when first showing the idea off - it's way easier to keep it simple and get feedback to improve the product and then later integrate with more services. These comments remind me of the few apps I've put out that start with an iOS ve…

I think you're taking the question as a veiled criticism. It's possible the question is just a question.

I don't think it's criticism, it's just not the most useful question they could be asking at this point in time. If he's showing off a new project - I think it's probably best to help improve what he currently has now and then worrying about the integrations later
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