Overall it's really good. I'm going to have this running in a tab for a while :)
Some thoughts:
- A couple of times the audio dropped. Each time I noticed the mute button was engaged and even unmuting the audio did not come back. Not sure what happened.
- The progress bar caused a usability issue for me. It's so instinctual to hover at the bottom of the video and I didn't realise why nothing was responding.
- Is it possible to have thumbnails for the videos in the playlist?
- How do I scroll in the playlist? I could not figure that out.
Thanks, for this ! Can you tell me your OS / Browser version ? You think video thumbnails should replace album covers ? You don't see the black scrollbar next to playlist ?
Windows 7 with Chrome (Version 28.0.1500.52 m - latest version). I cannot see the scroll bar: http://imgur.com/bkHWj9d
Maybe album covers are better in general. It's just that on the OK Computer playlist most of the videos were imitations and it would have been easier to see if I could preview them (http://en-us.blynde.com/#!ok-computer)
I agree that you should do something with that. Other than the minor issues this whole project is pretty perfect. It works exactly as I could imagine that I'd want it to, and there's no fluff. Beautiful execution.
I've got 'click-to-play' enabled - flash doesn't start running until I click on the flash object - and it looks like you've cleverly hidden it so there's no object for me to click on to enable it.
I think you should get a new logo, the "cloud" logo is already used by tons of companies, and this doesn't really have anything to do with clouds or cloud storage. Regardless of that though it seems very well done. I'm a little confused with the top thing. It's on US I click it and it goes to UK. Though it looks like a select menu.
When you click HD, what happens? It would be cool if you could select the levels like you can on youtube (240 to what ever)
Sadly, I seem to be unable to convince it to load entire albums, just individual songs. However, it does load unofficial videos, which is quite cool. I'm guessing that it runs a search without being logged in, and takes the first result which is shorter than 30min or so?
Thanks for the feedback ! Yes, you are right. I build blynde to specifically load track not full album. If I allow load entire albums, "artist panel", "your top" and so on became without interest, no ?
I honestly normally load up a bunch of full albums of progressive rock from the days of yesteryear and listen to two or three throughout the workday. It doesn't make sense to listen to just one song on those albums, and so I normally don't. I acknowledge that my music consumption habits are not normal, though. :3
Fantastic! A couple of thoughts: one is whether the lyrics can be shown and synchronized along with singing and with on/off feature, and the other is whether the video can be turned off for office users.
Really nice work. I love that the HD button stays active and loads all videos in HD. I also like the arrows shortcuts for next and previous video. Makes it much easier to skip tracks.
One minor recommendation: when the video is in full screen, the full screen arrows from the icon should be pointed inwards. Just being picky :)
I don't say this lightly, but this is fucking awesome!!
Wondering how hard it would be to implement a function that would search for all the variations of a particular song. Lets say I want to see all the remix versions of Lykke Li - Little Bit, as an example...
Cool service. I'll have to use this instead of Youtube's auto-generated playlists.
I'm not sure if it's a bug but...I was streaming a local radio station and searched for the artist I was listening to. Blynde search autosuggested the song to which I was already listening (it's a very popular song). In the playlist, this same song is showing up every 2-3 songs -- not even remixes of the same tune, but the same original mix of the song.
I'm on the 2nd time around of this song, and I'll hear it again in ~3 minutes, ~9 minutes, ~12 minutes, and ~18 minutes.
Edit: re-searching (searching again) seems to have cleared this up.
This thread is a great counterexample to the argument that HN always disses Show HNs.
Constructive criticism: Overall, great work! A "new" way to listen to music on Youtube is not nearly descriptive enough. I don't want a new way to listen to music on Youtube, I want a better way. And much more importantly, how is it better? A landing page would do wonders for you. But again, awesome work!
A "new" way may well be a "better" way, you're picking at straw fella. What do you think Apple said when they introduced the iPhone. "This is a new phone experience." Likewise, "This is a new YouTube experience".
I think hes talking about 4D in his link. You appear to have no way to monetize such a thing due to that clause. Its really beautiful though, good job!
For the moment, only country top are stored to REDIS for 24 hours. Search history and other user data are loaded once at startup and given by MySQL. The call to external APIs (to search, to retrieve playlist and so on) are made directy through your browser. (thanks to JSONP) :)
Nice work! The UI is simple and focussed on the music, feels fast and responsive.
One thing I can't easily tell, though, it why you built it. It was obviously a lot of effort; what feature was YouTube missing that made the effort worthwhile?
I really enjoy the creativity and the insight that goes behind applications such as this where you can't immediately tell "why?"- Might not sound like it makes any sense, but at first sight I really couldn't tell you "why" I have had this running in a tab since I saw this link.
It's beautiful. It grabs exactly what I want. It works, and it works quickly, with minimal effort. I wouldn't say that it fixes any one problem that I have had, rather it makes one of my life's conveniences a little better. That is cool, and I think this industry could make large impacts thinking the same way.
Reminds me of http://8tracks.com/ -- you should definitely add SoundCloud support. Also you should let people make their own playlists/vote on playlists/etc.
Cool idea. I'm not sure how you could monetize it, though.
Thanks ! For SoundCloud and playlist support, why not. Money was definitely not my goal when I build this. I build this, firstly for me, because I love listen songs on YouTube and I wanted to improve my experience. :)
Awesome, very nice interface! One thing I've been looking for for a while is last.fm support (while watching youtube videos). Any chance that could be possible?
Really only to be able to scrobble the tracks you listen too. For example other music services (Grooveshark / Hypem) let you connect your account and keep track of everything you listen to.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 185 ms ] threadSome thoughts: - A couple of times the audio dropped. Each time I noticed the mute button was engaged and even unmuting the audio did not come back. Not sure what happened. - The progress bar caused a usability issue for me. It's so instinctual to hover at the bottom of the video and I didn't realise why nothing was responding. - Is it possible to have thumbnails for the videos in the playlist? - How do I scroll in the playlist? I could not figure that out.
Maybe album covers are better in general. It's just that on the OK Computer playlist most of the videos were imitations and it would have been easier to see if I could preview them (http://en-us.blynde.com/#!ok-computer)
Good luck with it!
I agree that you should do something with that. Other than the minor issues this whole project is pretty perfect. It works exactly as I could imagine that I'd want it to, and there's no fluff. Beautiful execution.
I've got 'click-to-play' enabled - flash doesn't start running until I click on the flash object - and it looks like you've cleverly hidden it so there's no object for me to click on to enable it.
If I disable that the app loads fine.
When you click HD, what happens? It would be cool if you could select the levels like you can on youtube (240 to what ever)
One minor recommendation: when the video is in full screen, the full screen arrows from the icon should be pointed inwards. Just being picky :)
Great Youtube implementation. Congrats.
A suggestion is to be able to search for playlists to.
Wondering how hard it would be to implement a function that would search for all the variations of a particular song. Lets say I want to see all the remix versions of Lykke Li - Little Bit, as an example...
I'm not sure if it's a bug but...I was streaming a local radio station and searched for the artist I was listening to. Blynde search autosuggested the song to which I was already listening (it's a very popular song). In the playlist, this same song is showing up every 2-3 songs -- not even remixes of the same tune, but the same original mix of the song.
I'm on the 2nd time around of this song, and I'll hear it again in ~3 minutes, ~9 minutes, ~12 minutes, and ~18 minutes.
Edit: re-searching (searching again) seems to have cleared this up.
Constructive criticism: Overall, great work! A "new" way to listen to music on Youtube is not nearly descriptive enough. I don't want a new way to listen to music on Youtube, I want a better way. And much more importantly, how is it better? A landing page would do wonders for you. But again, awesome work!
Particularly section 4, General Use of the Service—Permissions and Restrictions.
What you've got is way cool though.
Youtube's recommendation list sucks. They only auto-play your lists not their recommendation lists. That sucks even more.
It will be great if you can add channels like house music, electronic, trans etc then you can pose threat to Spotify :-)
I had same idea as your's but for android. My friends disagreed with me saying it won't work but I will still do it :-)
We can use youtube as a database to create great interfaces which suck less to listen to music in pain less ways.
Would you mind sharing your tech stack?
Again, great job. Execution done with brilliance
One thing I can't easily tell, though, it why you built it. It was obviously a lot of effort; what feature was YouTube missing that made the effort worthwhile?
It's beautiful. It grabs exactly what I want. It works, and it works quickly, with minimal effort. I wouldn't say that it fixes any one problem that I have had, rather it makes one of my life's conveniences a little better. That is cool, and I think this industry could make large impacts thinking the same way.
Cool idea. I'm not sure how you could monetize it, though.
http://www.last.fm/api/scrobbling
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastfm-scrobbler/h...