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My Latest Project - Share Music Instantly

instant.fm

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I've definitely wanted exactly this in the past. Only thing that stopped me from building it was the law.

We're just playing YouTube videos. Nothing against the law about that.

Oh man. I just noticed this in my comments archive. I'm a dick. I wasn't paying enough attention to the implementation. Apologies.

That said, I still suspect the law might impact the future of your product since I assume many of the songs in the videos that you're listing have been uploaded illegally.. however, I do love the idea and hope it works out..

Really amazing site! Finally a way to take advantage of the "I listen to all my music on YouTube" behavior that's becoming so common.

One comment: it's too difficult to create new playlists. The front-page suggested lists is great, but I don't think you want to require people to open up iTunes or some other player and then figure out how to export a playlist to text format (most of your users, I imagine, will have no idea how to do this).

You could supply a guide on how to do this for various popular media players, but far easier would be to do a live search on a text field and let people click on the song they want to add from the search results.

Considering your average visitor is probably "someone who tends to listen to their music on YouTube", you've got to make the experience extremely low-friction, or they're just going to go back to watching stuff on YouTube.

Yeah, we're working on simplifying the new playlist creation process. Thanks for the nice comments.

Behaves very strange in Opera, but I guess it's a very cool project.

The problem is: when a playlist is chosen it doesn't load, the page refreshes all the time.

+1, same issue in FF3.5 and IE9 (works in FF4).

Fixed this now.

At last, a music service that actually cares about UX. It's great, the animations are a bit choppy on my machine but other than that everything is great, very intuitive interface. Where are you getting artist info from? Again, congrats.

So glad that someone appreciates all the time we spent on UX. We're still tweaking things and trying to make it even better. We're getting most of the music data from Last.fm's excellent API.

This is amazing the UI is really nice and intuitive. I did a dubstep playlist http://instant.fm/p/5r . It's interesting to notice that everything is on youtube now.

Hmm, it's showing up as a blank playlist for me.

strange, a bug maybe?

Yeah, we had a bug right after we launched where playlists wouldn't get saved if you were logged out. So sorry about that. It's since been fixed.

Yes, almost every song is on YouTube these days. :)

Nice use of http://html5boilerplate.com/

Your humans.txt and favicon are still the default though.

Haha, you noticed! Just fixed that!

Nice job.

http://instant.fm/p/5l

I don't see a way to rename a playlist. Am I missing something?

Awesome playlist! Hope you were able to figure out how to rename. The other commenter is correct - click the edit link next to the title.

There's an edit link next to the playlist name.

Nice to listen to something new. I could not drecrease the video to something below 720p. Is this somehow fixed or a bug?

Yeah, this is a known bug. We're going to fix it soon.

One might also consider tweaking this to allow for stringing together of longer video lectures/debates on various topics.

I've definitely thought about that.

Check out voxound.com

Edit: it appears to be down

Wow - really nice! Love the design.

Thanks. So glad to hear that people appreciate the design.

You're gonna get so sued for this.

It's just YouTube playlists, how is that illegal?

Edit: all of my 4- and 5-star rated songs in iTunes: http://instant.fm/p/7d

Really cool.

We're just playing YouTube videos. YouTube is hosting all the content.

Maybe, but not successfully. Important distinction.

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