Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?
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'Show HN: roll.io plays youtube videos searching list of text. Useful?'
That aside, neat app. It's a clever tagline though.
Now I see I should have stick to it. Deep inside me I knew if the service would be useful to me, it would be to some other folks, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't correct the bugs that the project had.
Here is the website if you guys want to check:
[1] http://youtubemyplaylist.heroku.com/
It is buggy, sometimes doesn't change to the next video and it lacks the controls and the display of the playlist as this site does and it is a lot slower. It also lacks the upload of a text file. But I had other ideas in mind, the mode implemented was supposed to be the "feeling lucky" mode, where you just typed each video one per line and hoped it would match to the video you wanted, but you'd also have a way to create playlist more carefully by passing the exact urls of the videos you wanted, like this site does.
How do you overcome this feeling when you know you should have sticked to your guts?
Anyway, good work guys! This is exactly what I wanted.
If it's something you really love, and feel your implementation works in a way you prefer to the other(s), just keep building it. There's room for more than one version of everything. What if the iPhone was the only smartphone, or Ivory was the only soap?
If it's not too near and dear to your heart, and you like what the other guy has done, just go ahead and use their version and have fun with it, and move on to your next project idea, with the confidence of knowing that your ideas are good, and you should keep believing in them and making more.
Here's an idea of mine for free (I came up with this as I was reading your comment, so feel free to critique it):
Instead of uploading a text file, a user can type in an artist and song title on their smartphone. This gets added to a playlist that's displaying on a large monitor/TV/projector screen. This could pick songs from YouTube/iTunes/Winamp etc.
Uses:
- Nightclubs. People can offer track selections for the DJ. These are displayed on the wall. Or maybe there is no DJ at all. Users can vote on their track choice that are coming up next on the screen, as well as offering their own track pick - like HN voting/article submissions. (This would be the geekiest nightclub of all time.)
- House parties. As above.
It would be the interactive/social/sound park. :P
But since I don't know that many parks with speakers, on clubs it would probably work better. They could do it as an experiment on a tent of some festival like they did with the concept of the silent disco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_disco).
I was going to start in cafes, and monetize by charging the cafe for the service. The patrons get the jukebox-ey service for free, and the cafe pays a small monthly subscription.
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_cab_for_cutie
Regarding the _USEFULNESS_ of this: low. Regarding the entertainment factor: pretty high. I could use a m3u-> txt parser to dump a huge load of youtube videos and make a "music video playlist" -- kind of cool.
It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.
This is the result of a tiny hackathon. We wanted to listen to the old playlists of Woxy.com
If the video bandwidth is all Youtube's, and the UI is Javascript, your ongoing cost is mostly the server time to run the text against your corpus and spit out a playlist.
I love when startup ideas spring from a misinterpretation of how someone else summarizes their product.
I hope this idea stays as focused and bloat-free as it is right now, I just love it.
And because of that -- and only that -- I would never see myself sharing this with people or using it to send video playlists to people aside from some anonymous web forum.
Seriously, though, I'm not one to be easily offended -- and I think fake umbrage in our society has been taken to a ridiculous level (especially in politics). But the reason I like good design is because when something is well designed it gives me a sense of calm and peace. Having "I eat text and shit out whatever" is just very bad design to me.
And it's offensive enough that why would I risk offending somebody? Why do I care enough about the site to take on that risk?
Grooveshark offers widgets, so in theory it could work. http://widgets.grooveshark.com/make
Plus back then, bandwidth was not so great / YouTube often buffered causing breaks in the music. So I abandoned the project.
However Roll.io is a great solution, often I have the situation where I have a track listing for something that I can find individual songs for on youtube, but need to quickly make a playlist out of it, but don't due to the horrible youtube playlist interface.
This is especially true when it comes to 'Remixed' music where the songs have particular unique names. e.g. http://roll.io/#4fvjsj!0
Thanks for making it. The only request I would have would be to automatically remove or recognise track listing numbers at the start of the tracks.
E.g. if I copy a track listing I often have: 1. SongA 2. SongB 3. SongC 4. SongD
- It is a slight pain to manually remove the 1., 2., 3., 4. from the front and may cause incorrect matching on the songs if I leave them on.
For some reason the page is very slow to interact with and type on while using my Motorola Atrix (supposedly a fast device). Ideally, the home page would have just a textarea and no video playing by default.
More useful for building playlists on the fly rather than having a prepared list of songs as roll.io does.
What do you think? =)
I assumed you meant you took a .txt file of text and extracted any and all videos from it.
"Show HN: roll.io eats text and shits relevant youtube videos. Useful?"
The proposition is so obvious you should just spell it out on your home page, like, have a text box with some pre-populated text and a big arrow that says "becomes" and then a playlist of youtube videos.
This is awesome
roll.io is awesome though. Just making and sharing lists of talks broken up in several videos, things like this.. I wanted this exact thing just yesterday without knowing it.
Nice work.
I was a little disappointed to see that it didn't work on the iPad, though. The page just tells me (in grey text on a black background btw) that the flash player is needed, although embedded YouTube videos usually work without the need for flash on this thing.
1. We have the 'hide video' options, can we please have 'hide list' option which makes video bigger?
2. Can we have the 'always select best quality' switch?
With these features roll.io would make it to my favorite music players list.
Mostly b. Even on an imac youtube can take 10% of cpu I'd rather be used for something else, like a lagging game.
Ability to enter in wikipedia track listing URL, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track...
Actually, what would be very cool is a chrome plugin that allows you to play the songs listed on any wiki album page, with a click of a button. That would be incredibly cool.
Empty lines are currently displayed and link to a random video. A quick improvement would be to just skip these empty lines.
I'd love to read about the technology behind. It works well even on names I typed in in Polish.
http://roll.io/song1title-song2title-song3title
With '-' as delimiter or some other char/word