Well, yes. The poor thing about youtube is you cant search for songs while one is playing without having a bunch of tabs. So I just made it so all can happen in the dropdown.
The view is broken on Safari (OS X, and I believe other platforms). Also I found this app very confusing, there are so many details/features and I couldn't figure out what to do with this app. The point is not made clear.
Thanks for the heads up. And did you watch the demo video? :P. I tried to make it fairly friendly. And the point I guess is to be able to get a bunch of songs playing so you can search for new ones and add them without stopping the music which you can't on youtube.
A nice feature to add would be a highlighted or bold title for the official music video. Youtube video titles are often misleading, sometimes titles even include "Official" when they are actually dubstep remixes or cover versions.
I honestly can't think of how this could be automated though. Maybe integrate some sort of crowd-curation with Official videos being verified by users of the site.
If the user of the video is <usernam>VEVO, then it is official. There are other copies of "official" videos out there. Those will have to be crowdsourced like you say though.
But again you may not want to listen to anything from VEVO even if it is official. Every track they upload starts with a full minute advertisement for me.
ha. It's so hard to find domain names. No one else has ever said sounds like Testicles but I can see it. I thought it was a decent name though. And I know, does not look the best. I am hoping to meet some web designers :)
Out of curiosity, where do you get your album and artist information (http://tunesicles.com/autocomplete/daft%20punk, for example)? It looks like you are using MusicBrainz and Last.fm in your "About" modal.
Have you found you need to take an aggregate of the two?
How does the quality and completeness of each database compare?
Yes so if you do a search you will see that there is an option for "view top songs". That data comes from last.fm. Everything else comes from musicbrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/). I have fount that service pretty complete. There are a few others but MB is pretty large and has a good API.
I don't really. I can't remember if I am able to only search music videos from the youtube API or not. I'll check it out now and edit. But right now I basically just search youtube with the song name, artist and album and use the time.
It's funny to think that two years ago, while in a travel to Sweden, Youtube had a similar feature (not for music, but you could search without stopping the current playing video). When I got back home the feature was gone, so I assume they were testing the feature in different countries?
If I recall correctly, I did a search while a video was being played. Then, when I pressed enter on the query, a list of results appeared on top | bottom of the video.
If I selected one of the videos on the search results, they were auto-added on a right playlist. If you wanted to move to the next video, you could select it on the right playlist.
I found it really intelligent and useful, but at the start it felt a little weird.
My assumption was that it was too difficult for everyone, and Youtube decided to keep playlists as they were.
As for in which period of time I remember this, I was in Uppsala from 28 Apr 2010 to 04 May 2010
I'm going to shamelessly plug my YouTube Audio streaming app on the store for your iPhone or iPod Touch, as some of you may be interested: http://youtuneslive.com/download
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 70.3 ms ] threadCan't scroll to the right at all.
I honestly can't think of how this could be automated though. Maybe integrate some sort of crowd-curation with Official videos being verified by users of the site.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creamsicle [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popsicle
Have you found you need to take an aggregate of the two?
How does the quality and completeness of each database compare?
It's funny to think that two years ago, while in a travel to Sweden, Youtube had a similar feature (not for music, but you could search without stopping the current playing video). When I got back home the feature was gone, so I assume they were testing the feature in different countries?
Does anyone recall this?
If I selected one of the videos on the search results, they were auto-added on a right playlist. If you wanted to move to the next video, you could select it on the right playlist.
I found it really intelligent and useful, but at the start it felt a little weird.
My assumption was that it was too difficult for everyone, and Youtube decided to keep playlists as they were.
As for in which period of time I remember this, I was in Uppsala from 28 Apr 2010 to 04 May 2010
- If I click in the main search field when there is already something in there, my input disappears.
- What is the Ti column in the playlist? If it is the play time then there is something broken: I see 388, 0:0, 4:6, among sensible times.
- The playlist is seems non-interactive, I found double-click and drag-and-drop functionality by accident.
- The player controls are missing, took me a while to see them on the bottom of the screen.
- No full screen for video.
- The on/off button in the corner needs at least a label.
- The menu items About and Contact don't change the cursor to a pointer.
- The sidebar with explanations disappeared after a reload.
- All sorts of misalignments and layout oddities, like height of the playlist, see this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/Sy8RP.png
- Clicking two separate "add to playlist" links for to albums, the individual tracks are intermixed, also some track numbers are duplicated.
PS: I wrote this comment hours ago, could only submit it now.