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Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by mikewhy » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

colinramsay wrote: post #4

tuananh wrote: post #2

sorry but what's the use case for this?

For one: you can play your music collection from any location if it's stored on Dropbox?

isn't that kind of inherently possible due to the nature of Dropbox? Albeit this has a proper UI.

Plex, for instance, does this and much more provided you have a collection not in a cloud.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by squeaky-clean » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it.

I don't see any mobile screenshots, how does it look on a phone screen? I can imagine that being a great use-case for this app.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by poncytwit » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

disappointed. Single-page app relies on flash technology.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by onaclov2000 » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:35 PM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #22

Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it. I don't see any mobile screenshots, how does it look on a phone screen? I can imagine that being a great use-case for this app.

I don't think he's the first to think of it, but definitely one of the few who actually built it, I started once a while back, but never got very far...LOL

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by jkbr » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

why-el wrote: post #9

Very well done. Where can we see it running live? Your domain name redirects back to Github.

It's not running anywhere right now, sorry about that. That is because the app is not really ready for public production use. As mentioned in the README, I've kinda stopped working on it some time ago. I think it could still be interesting/useful to people who want to run in even in this state by themselves. The codebase also hopefully has some interesting bits, so I've at least opened it up for now. Another thing is that the backend talks directly to the Musicbrainz API, which is throttled (their DB is open though, so one could make a web service on top of it).

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by onaclov2000 » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #22

Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it. I don't see any mobile screenshots, how does it look on a phone screen? I can imagine that being a great use-case for this app.

Also I was just wondering if it has a mobile component, guess I hadn't thought of that....I could play music on my computer no problem, it's on my phone that is ideal :)

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by wj » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:43 PM UTC

With Dropbox upping their quotas I was literally thinking about this two days ago!

I look forward to checking this out. Going to take me quite a while to finish uploading my music though.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by higherpurpose » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

Music in Dropbox? Who keeps music in DropBox's 2GB of free storage? (I'm assuming market who pays for DropBox storage is a lot smaller)

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by jkbr » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #22

Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it. I don't see any mobile screenshots, how does it look on a phone screen? I can imagine that being a great use-case for this app.

Thanks! I'm pretty sure though that I'm not the first one nor the last one to have ever thought of that :D

The design is fluid but not really responsive. What I've been playing with is remote control that worked great on mobile devices. You were able to control all of your active CloudTunes sessions from any connected browser. So you could for instance play music on your computer, and control it via your smartphone (just like the iOS Remote app from Apple can control iTunes, except this worked over the internet so you didn't need to be on the same network). It was a very crude prototype though so I didn't include it in the initial release.

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Post by jkbr » Mon, Sep 08, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

poncytwit wrote: post #23

disappointed. Single-page app relies on flash technology.

When I was working on the YouTube integration for CloudTunes (looong time ago), there wasn't an HTML5 based API. Is there one nowadays?