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bromagosa
I like it, what's the algorithm for choosing the next song?
theone
It does some ranking for all the related songs of the songs played, and pick best match from the related videos.
consti2k
That is awesome. It would be great if you would use #! urls so I can share a video/playlist easily with others.
theone
Its first item on my todo list, to save session so that it can be shared.
Axsuul
How do ads work with these embedded videos? Also, aren't some videos from some companies unembeddable (such as VEVO)? Props on the execution. :)
propercoil
sweet! bookmarked this. i always waste time on youtube or wireshark adding songs etc this is nice because i can get a radio type of youtube with a baseline as my favorite song, thanks.
islon
Now Playing: Bach - Air ("on the G string"). Coming up next: Justin Bieber - As long as you love me. I think you algorithm needs some adjustment, otherwise nice concept.
mehulkar
It's probably the featured video in the set of related videos. Or is this a custom recommendation engine?
alainbryden
Very crisp UI. I look forward to the ability to queue up songs and build playlists on the fly. If we sign in to our YouTube account, maybe you could access our own playlists and let us save new ones back. Another great idea would be allowing us to set a crossfade amount and start the next video as the previous one is finishing.
swalsh
This is really well done, nice work!
denzil_correa
Nice idea but you may have to buy more credits to keep your App Engine account burning out. I receive the following error

This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.

mtgx
Google shutting this down in 3..2..1..
gubatron
don't see why, they're using the youtube player and the same youtube search results.

However, why even do this if you can do exactly the same on the youtube website or inside google+

Doesn't really add any value that youtube already gives you.

Search for non music and the illusion dies.

Cool UI though.

theone
This is basically a type of youtube radio, in which you just have to provide one video of your liking, and the player does the rest. It automatically picks best match related video and plays it automatically.

I dont think its currently possible on youtube, and more over youtube is'nt meant to do this.

tedmiston
Is there any way to preload in the background so that you don't have the awkward pause between song changes? That'd be really great.
crisnoble
The autoplaying of a new song is a feature that doesn't work in youtube, unless you make a playlist. I love that I can type in an artist, click a song, and go about my work.
faramarz
Very nice! Slick UI

Is that an official Facebook Like button? I have never before been prompted to "confirm" a like. weird

theone
Ye its the official facebook like "iframe" code
calinet6
I could never really use this for long listening because the sound quality of youtube music is so variable. It would be pretty annoying.

Otherwise, very cool concept and good implementation!

theone
In absence of quality music services like rdio, pendora, spotify, songza, in India. Youtube is still a great alternative for music. In fact for many of us youtube is the default destination for finding and listening music.
danielweber
I've been using it all morning. Sometimes it takes me on a really weird path of music I would never have gone on myself. Thanks.

There's way too much Javascript, so I think I'm missing a lot of the UI. I only have youtube.com and appspot.com allowed.

williamle8300
I like the creative thinking behind the idea. Just to let yo know.. there are some bugs with Safari 5.1.7.
theone
Thanks for pointing it out, I have only tested it for Chrome. Will surely look its working on other browsers.
tedmiston
Is there supposed to be a player control or something in the middle of the screen? (It's blank.)

Safar 5.1.7 / OS X 10.7.4

Edit: Weird results redrawing the graphics when resizing the window with Chrome 21.0.1180.89 on Mac OS X.

zackb
Really cool! I've been using it all morning too. I love the UI and the responsiveness. I'm sure you're working on it but would love the ability to create, save, and share playlists. Thank you for sharing.
level09
Does it use Youtube API ? Does it use an algorithm to identify videos that are "Music" videos ?
blhack
Cool, but is there any way you could implement a "back" button? I'd love to be able to go to basically say "oops, wrong turn!" and go back.

My client went from "The Tallest Man on Earth" to Nirvana. These types of music are VERY different.

Then it went from Mumford and Sons to Black Eyed Peas. Again, very different.

Obviously this isn't a problem with your client, it's youtube's recommendation system; it would just be nice to have a way to correct it.

theone
i'm planning to implement a play queue where you can see/save/share all the videos you've played. From there you'll also be able to go back.
petemc_
Kind of reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/disco
addandsubtract
Cool, for the first 25 of the Top 100 I get this:

    Unfortunately, this video is not available
    in Germany because it may contain
    music for which GEMA has not granted
    the respective music rights.
I stopped trying after 25.