Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.
Youtube has always been kinda cluttered. I hear youtube is run mostly independently from the rest of google, so im not surprised that it is hasnt gotten the minimalist treatment
A user input's a band or artist... or really anything they want to. You can insert Football, Funny, LOL Cats, or anything else you can think of. I'm aiming for people to use Tubalr for bands and artists, but it dosnt really matter, long as it has a use!
Then Tubalr posts to YouTube.com and retrieves a list of the top YouTube videos for whatever was searched excluding videos that dont allow embeding(I post to gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/… to determine if its embeddable, and throw it out if its not). Then Tubalr does some parsing and rips out the video ids and puts them away for the next step.
Once there is a list of all the videos, I then use YouTube's API to embed the YouTube player with the correct video. The YouTube API allows you to determine on the fly if a video is paused, finished, or any other state you can think of. Once a video is complete, it simply embeds the next video, using some jquery and a .php file with the player in it.
So what if a user hits the "Similar Artist/Bands"... well, Tubalr uses audioscrobbler.net's API by doing something like below!
Tubalr hits ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/ARTIST_NAME_HERE/… and grabs the top 20 similar artists/bands and stores them for the next step.
Once Tubalr has the list of 20 similar bands/artists, it hits YouTube up for the number one video for each artists.
Then, after Tubalr has all the similar videos we just use the YouTube API to embed just like we did for the default option!
Good work on fixing the background :) I feel the only thing missing is seeing what videos are coming up next. So rather than hitting "Next" and "Previous", it would be nice to see a row of thumbnail videos underneath the main video so I can skip around like a grooveshark playlist.
Edit - Gee willickers the site is fast! Really cool :D
I'll look into adding this ability, I tried enabling it today; however, it just wouldn't work. It added the icon to the player to go to full screen, but it simply would work. Glad you've had a use for the app and thanks for using it!
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 69.4 ms ] threadA user input's a band or artist... or really anything they want to. You can insert Football, Funny, LOL Cats, or anything else you can think of. I'm aiming for people to use Tubalr for bands and artists, but it dosnt really matter, long as it has a use!
Then Tubalr posts to YouTube.com and retrieves a list of the top YouTube videos for whatever was searched excluding videos that dont allow embeding(I post to gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/… to determine if its embeddable, and throw it out if its not). Then Tubalr does some parsing and rips out the video ids and puts them away for the next step.
Once there is a list of all the videos, I then use YouTube's API to embed the YouTube player with the correct video. The YouTube API allows you to determine on the fly if a video is paused, finished, or any other state you can think of. Once a video is complete, it simply embeds the next video, using some jquery and a .php file with the player in it.
So what if a user hits the "Similar Artist/Bands"... well, Tubalr uses audioscrobbler.net's API by doing something like below!
Tubalr hits ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/ARTIST_NAME_HERE/… and grabs the top 20 similar artists/bands and stores them for the next step.
Once Tubalr has the list of 20 similar bands/artists, it hits YouTube up for the number one video for each artists.
Then, after Tubalr has all the similar videos we just use the YouTube API to embed just like we did for the default option!
Otherwise: good work. The selection of music it gets me when selecting an artist is rather impressive. I can see me using this a lot.
Edit - Gee willickers the site is fast! Really cool :D
Unfortunately I'm not interested in registering stuff at imageshack.
I hope you succeed with it, (and that YouTube goes the route of hiring you rather than shutting you down!)
On my wish list for your app would be the ability to synchronize two browsers to the same stream....