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Show HN: Juicebox – Listen to music with others

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23 pointslawrencewu12 comments

Really cool!

Recommendation: hover over a chat message, see which song was playing when the message was sent. Most of the messages are referencing the current song, so most value is lost at the end of the song.

Juicebox is a great way to share your music with others. You can create rooms, add songs, and share the URL with others, and they will be synced to the same song as you when they join. It's built on React, Node.js, and Firebase. I've been working on this for fun for the past few months, and I'm hoping to hear some feedback from the HN community.

Thanks for checking it out!

When I clicked on the link, it brought up a page that was already playing a song. I tried to pause it and couldn't. I had to look for the volume control instead?

Why can't I pause the song?

It even shows the YouTube pause icon thing when I click on it. This is really frustrating.

You're not supposed to be able to pause. But this is a UI flaw. Sorry about that -- I've disabled interactions on the player so it's more clear.

Oh. Hmm. On other sites like plug.dj you can pause and when you unpause it just catches you back up!

I'll consider adding that functionality. Thanks for the feedback!

I just queued a 10 hour repeat of the Jaws theme. A time limit on a per-server basis might be a good idea.

What separates this from other turntable.fm clones?

One difference is that Juicebox is still alive :P

Kidding aside, one feature I really like about Juicebox is that it will play songs that have been previously added to the queue. One problem I had with turntable.fm and plug.dj was that it required a lot of energy to keep the music going (you have to continually keep adding songs to the queue). On Juicebox, I can just join my room and I can enjoy music without too much hassle.

On plug.dj, this isn't true. Playlists that are in the queue will repeat after all the songs from that list have been played once.

This is perfect for parties so people can add tracks but won't skip the songs that have already been added

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