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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.

That is a needed piece, then you can play as it downloads instead of having to preload the entire file. Cool!

Re: Show HN: CloudTunes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Plex however relies on you either have 1) a good home connection (with no caps) or 2) a server "in the cloud(tm)". Dropbox provides the backend hosting, which makes providing the data files easier.

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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.

better ensure it is indeed your music, because Dropbox will likely report infringements of copyright

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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.

better ensure it is indeed your music, because Dropbox will likely report infringements of copyright

Don't they only do that when placed in shared folders?

Some of my Dead could maybe cause a problem (though it was all once freely available on archive.org).

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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)

I dunno about you, but I have 18.13 GB of free storage with Dropbox. It wasn't particularly hard to achieve, either.

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I've always thought it might be interesting to have apps like this that run locally on web technologies. Is there hope for this model? One obviously shortcoming as exemplified here is the painful installation process. I suspect people are also going to be concerned with what's being installed where.

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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.

Storing/reading from S3 would be great. I'm also interested in the answer for this.

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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.

Just out of curiosity, why did you fork it immediately? Did you find issues you wanted to fix, code you wanted to change, something else?

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post #36

I've always thought it might be interesting to have apps like this that run locally on web technologies. Is there hope for this model? One obviously shortcoming as exemplified here is the painful installation process. I suspect people are also going to be concerned with what's being installed where.

there is if we can agree on a base tech (node.js for example), an app store model, and the environment is sandboxed. this would let people produce apps that would work everywhere - from raspberry pis to pcs to macs.

also sadly, some sort of drm should probably exist.

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I've always thought it might be interesting to have apps like this that run locally on web technologies. Is there hope for this model? One obviously shortcoming as exemplified here is the painful installation process. I suspect people are also going to be concerned with what's being installed where.

I'd been planning on releasing it together with a Dockerfile so that people could easily run it locally in an isolated container. It turned out to be a bit more complex than I had anticipated so Docker support will come later. But I think that could be a viable model for locally-installable web apps in the future.
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