Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

#1

Post by hafifuyku » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:19 AM UTC

Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
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#2

Post by kri5 » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:30 AM UTC

Great idea and very promising application. I've exported my favourite tracks via foobar2000 and last.fm statistics via softplaylist plugin (it creates XPSF playlist) et voila! my videoplaylist was created en instant.

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Post by hbz » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:35 AM UTC

I think it's useful and very well made. Nice job!

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Post by firatdemirel » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:35 AM UTC

it works & sounds great. but i'd like to close video part completely. also a browser extension could be nice for it.

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Post by schizophrenia » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:36 AM UTC

very clear and good idea, congrats guys

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Post by rmc » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:41 AM UTC

I was a bit confused at first. You should have more details on how it works

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Post by mgkimsal » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text.

It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.

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Post by p4bl0 » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

YouTube's playlist management is a PITA, so this is really a great idea. And it's done following the KISS principle, kudos!

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Post by hafifuyku » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:49 AM UTC

mgkimsal wrote: post #7

i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text. It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.

Sorry for the confusing title. roll.io takes txt files, searches every line in youtube and plays the results one after the other.

This is the result of a tiny hackathon. We wanted to listen to the old playlists of Woxy.com

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#10

Post by instakill » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 11:49 AM UTC

Voted up if only for the title.