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yuhmahp
That is amazing
jansan
What exactly is amazing? I honestly do not get it.
Rillen
Its a music video which plays, it apparently searches for covers, sync them up so you can switch from the original video to infinity other cover version of it i would say.
homarp
video of the same song all across youtube are synchronized: you can click and jump from one video to the other and the song continue 'seamlessly'
ajuc
For me it buffers a lot when switching so it doesn't keep the rhythm and the syncing is wasted.

And I have a pretty good internet connection. I never get buffering on youtube.

Anyway, great idea.

emiliobumachar
Thank you! I was vaguely aware that something good and artsy was happening, but was not quite aware of what that was.
fiws
I love this, but it feels like Infinite Buffering Simulator 2020 for me.
_a1_
Doesn't work for me, doesn't even tell me it doesn't work.

Unless it's just photo and a smear-like effect under the cursor?

gitgud
Only works in Firefox for me... "click play" button doesn't show in Chrome
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cyxxon
While this looks cool, kinda like the UI from some 90ies SciFi movie come to live... what is it? As in, yeah, I can click around, but I don't see what it really does...
Traster
You navigate through lots of videos of fans performing Bad Guy - but the twist is they're sync'd up so you can move between them and the song continues without interruption but now it's a different person performing the song.
g105b
I get about 8 frames per second on this site. I don't understand how websites are built so badly these days.
KMnO4
In a word? Abstraction. In two words? Abstraction and apathy.
Kuinox
There is good abstractions and bad abstractions.
cnity
How do you think the creator of the site would feel reading this comment?
Igelau
Closed - Won't Fix
bierjunge
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Take the time while it's buffering/whatever and enjoy the world.
drjasonharrison
As others have commented, mobile browsers appear to work well. Or disable plugins.

Testing websites in the the web browser ecosystem is a tedious job.

homarp
made by IYOIYO https://mobile.twitter.com/iyoiyostudio/status/1330960246064...

with ML

mellosouls
This is brilliant, more info at places like this:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilish-launches-infini...

I was brought up on The NME and the rock press and love left-field bands and I've always felt Billie (and her brother) fit comfortably into that tradition despite (or partly because of) their terrific pop sheen.

Great talent at a very young age; this next decade will be hers.

iscrewyou
“...which begins with the singer’s original video for the song and, with the help of AI, has synced up thousands of covers...”

Isn’t this just a timestamp sync for certain search parameters? What has artificial intelligence got to do with this?

MH15
It could be a buzzword but I think it'd be fair to assume that different covers of the same song are slightly out of sync at different points. So the algorithm (AI or not) would look for signature beats in the original and match them with beats in a close range in the other songs.
yeahwhatever10
I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.
kylebenzle
I bet not. I've been doing NLP for just a few months but my experience is that its fickle at best. Especially with a song that is so repetitive you'd be looking for (n) instance of (n) words.

Also, most of these videos arn't going to have human transcribed lyrics which would further increase the difficulty.

Why not just take all the data they have and throw it into a model to predict time.

yeahwhatever10
On second run it looks like you're right. They have categories that have no lyrics at all.
drjasonharrison
These days "with the help of computers" doesn't have the same cachet. I did notice that the videos tend to follow instruments and styles. So it may be a bit more than just temporal synchronization.
huhtenberg
Loading gets progressively slower as it approaches 100% and then gets stuck at 100%. Using Firefox.
anonymfus
Yeah, I thought that was an intended behaviour before reading other comments.
anonymfus
Seems like disabling uBlock Origin made this work for me
r34
Very cool.

And it can be extended further by adding videos from exploring the website itself ;))

searchableguy
I need this for anime songs.
bsanr2
It would be extremely useful to be able to switch between originals/English covers like this.
rasz
100% cpu and console filled with endless

    HTMLIFrameElement.contentWindow properties could not be accessed anyway: DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "https://billie.withyoutube.com" from accessing a cross-origin frame.
        at c (<anonymous>:97:5)
        at HTMLIFrameElement.get [as contentWindow] (<anonymous>:112:9)
        at Z.r.T (https://www.youtube.com/s/player/77da52cd/www-widgetapi.vflset/www-widgetapi.js:601:207)
        at Z.r.ca (https://www.youtube.com/s/player/77da52cd/www-widgetapi.vflset/www-widgetapi.js:598:51)
young_unixer
I've been waiting for 15 minutes for this to load, and now it's stuck at 100%.

Firefox 83 64-bit, Ubuntu 20.04, Ublock Origin. 3D Acceleration on.

theelous3
Have you clicked "click to play"?

2/3 down, center.

young_unixer
It just says LOADING...

I tried with chrome and same thing.

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sigio
In firefox I had to enable autoplay (button next the the padlock / left of the address-bar) before the click to play button appeared.
progval
This happens if it fails to load JS/XHR/frames from any of these domains: billie.withyoutube.com / www.google.com / storage.googleapis.com / *.googlevideos.com / www.youtube.com

Check you're not blocking any, eg. in ublock's blocklist or /etc/hosts; or look for errors in the network debugger of your browser

shrimp_emoji
Works on my machine.

Firefox 83 64-bit Manjaro 20.2, µBlock Origin + NoScript.

eplanit
I guess the "infinite" part is the load time.
abnry
I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky now.

At first I didn't understand what this website was, but once I realized everything was synced up and thought about the technical work to make it all work... this is brilliant.

abathur
In an alternate youniverse, you delighted in the invitation to shed a prejudice and emerge a little shiny from your old skin.
SuoDuanDao
Ugh, cheerful alternate-youniverse versions of myself are the worst >:(

Source: am also a grumpy millennial.

SubiculumCode
Eilish and her co-writer are very talented melody/hook writers. I had the same hopes for Lorde, who early work was brilliant, but whose star has faded somewhat.
ur-whale
Bah, I've been cranky since before you were born, you have a lot of catching up to do !
barbarbar
It says sorry. And that I should refresh.
eganist
Loads fine for me. Firefox 84.0b5, ublock origin 1.31.0, privacy badger 2020.10.7. No custom blocking rules.

If you're on the Firefox beta channel, ask me anything and I'll work with you to troubleshoot.

drjasonharrison
For those suffering buffering, loading, or other misbehavior. Try a mobile browser or disable your plugins.
jpswade
Love the idea, not sure I quite understand the obsession with this song.
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tmabraham
BTW, this is not the world's first infinite YouTube video (like they have often been claiming). The first video like that was posted by Twenty One Pilots in June and has been running since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrAAxT8ZLY
stoolpigeon
Yes. I think it was a genius move. I'm subscribed to their channel and it is always at the top of my subscription list as being live. Having the video constantly feeding in fan submissions was also smart.
typon
This is beautiful