Show HN: Streamus - An open-source Chrome extension for managing YouTube music

Hey everyone,

I'm a young developer with a penchant for music and quality software. I have spent the last 16 months developing an open-source Google Chrome extension which attempts to simplify the experience of using YouTube to play music.

Streamus: http://streamus.com/

Streamus currently has 14,000 users and is the #1 trending / #4 ranked 'fun' extension in the web store. I've built it entirely from scratch while teaching myself the basics of BackboneJS (and Backbone.Marionette), RequireJS, GruntJS and many other, smaller libraries. It has been a great learning experience.

I would love to field any questions about the product, challenges encountered while creating it, etc. Really anything you'd like to know -- I'm all ears and super excited to discuss it.

Here's all the source code if that's your thing:

  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension
  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusWebsite
  https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusServer

Like it so far..

Awesome extension - It would be nice if I could add a youtube mix. For example if I go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc I see a mix starting from this song. I'd like to play that mix. I don't know if there's a way to do that.

Great job.

Hey,

Yep. I am working on it. YouTube mixes utilize YouTube's V3 API (exclusively) where as most of their data can be access via the V2 or V3 API. When I first started working on the project V3 wasn't out yet and it has been slow become a production worthy API, but I'm hearing better things about it now and am certainly planning on revisiting the code.

Here's a GitHub issue from 4 months ago for you to track the issue: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/issues/30

I'm glad you like it otherwise! :)

Its awesome,good job.