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Show HN: Pinterest + iTunes + Youtube Mashup

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I'm glad web companies don't take patents seriously enough to file one for everything they do for one, and second they don't enforce them. If they did, there would be no more "Pinterest for this..or the Netflix for that" and so on.

I really do believe the web is better off without patents and letting companies copy each other, and I think the same would be true for software companies, too, and maybe many other industries as well. Copying leads to competition, leads to further improvements and new ideas through combing old ones. Besides, wholesale rip-offs will always be criticized by customers anyway if they go too far, who wants to take their business to a "clone" anyway, when they could go with the original.

Good point. The whole reason we have patent law in the first place is to promote the progress of science. Patents still have a role in some industries where inventing is expensive and cloning is cheap (e.g. pharmaceuticals). But on the web we don't need them. They do more harm than good. I've thought for a while that patent examiners should take into account the investment made by the inventor, giving greater weight to inventions that take a lot of time & money and less weight to inventions that were trivially easy to hack together.

I am not really clear on what this does, but if I have to guess, you can search songs and artists on pintunes - it picks thumbnails from Youtube and links to songs on itunes. Am I correct? The links don't seem to work - but that may be because I am on Ubuntu.

I would really suggest an About page or a README on the github repo and also a go-back-to-home link :)

on the homepage you can see the itunes popular songs and also you can search an artist or song, it usees the itunes api.

when you click some song, you can play it thanks to the youtube api.

the interface is inspired by pinterest but it doesn't use any api from them.

thanks for comment!

hmm, doesn't play anything in my Chrome (19, win 7 x64). I do not have iTunes installed

do you have flash installed? the songs are played in a hidden iframe with the youtube video embed, thanks for comment!

and nothing in Firefox 15 (x64)

I did't have my headphones on, didn't even realize there was something playing This makes it so much more cool! Just one question: Youtube provides API to just get the audio?

i'm using the youtube api for searching the song, then i get the first result and i load the video in a hidden iframe :)

While that is a smart hack, user should be informed of what is going on. I don't think that is a good design decision. Danger of disconnection in bandwidth limited networks!

Isn't that against youtube's api tos? I thought you had to display the video for the user. Anyway, I like the site.

i guess you're right... but i don't give much importance is something I've done in a couple of hours to have fun without any purpose of making money, the source code is available on github ;) https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin

Working in Chrome (19 Win 7 x86) and I don't have iTunes installed. Nice reflow on resize :)

it's not necesary itunes for playing songs ;) for the reflow take a look this jquery plugin, masonry http://masonry.desandro.com/index.html

thanks for comment!

i've create a README file, thanks for the suggestion :) https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin/blob/master/README.md

How do you search the musics on youtube ?

For example, I did search for "samurai collection" on pintunes, and I could play the entire music "Duel - Kiyoshi Yoshida".

But I didn't find this music anywhere on youtube!! If I search for "Duel - Kiyoshi Yoshida" or "Duel - samurai collection" I don't get the music in question.

What is strategy do you use to find the music?

the code is available on github, take a look the player.js file in line 10, there you will see the call to the youtube api the search query is song name + artist https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin/blob/master/js/player.js thanks for comment!

Thanks.

I like the idea of fetching a youtube video for the audio track. It's a pity that Youtube doesn't see it in the same way. Well done!

Agreed. I'm pretty sure it must have been a legal decision.. (or perhaps a poor strategic one)-- the amount of bandwidth wasted on unnecessary videos must be huge-- i'd wager at least half the video-hours 'watched' on yt are actually audio.

A beautiful site, this could actually be something amazing. It's missing a few key elements off the top of my head, of course (being a demo), but its crisp nonetheless.

Great job, and I hope it goes somewhere. I have a few ideas for it if you are interested!

Working good on my Chrome, OS X. And I think it's a great project, will check out the github. A suggestion would be to change the play-icon to pause and add some kind of progress bar to it when a song is playing?

I wanted to do in a very simple way because the youtube player is a little ugly hehe.

if you want you can show the youtube player in a corner you put this css in the secret's div on the footer :p "position:fixed;right:0;bottom:0;width:420px;height:315px;"

thanks for comment!

My only big suggestion is to center the album covers and format the text below it a little better. Seems a bit lopsided to me. Seems like a cool project though.

This is great stuff, good job. The world needs more free tools like these. Would make for a killer product too...

thanks for your comment! I applied the same functionality to other sites like slideshare, take a look to pinslide! migueldev.com/pin/slideshare.php the source code is available in the same repository on github ;) https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin

Slightly OT: Is there any way to get the flv file from the video url on youtube??

There are javascript hacks (which the "Download youtube video" browser extensions use) but these URLs contain a time sensitive element and its against the TOU to use them to display the video anywhere else. There is no official API for the flv either but if I am not mistaken they offer an rtsp/3gpp stream for at least some of the videos

i built something similar but more polished and released it on HN a few weeks ago. chartbrain: http://chartbrain.com/

here's the original - it went nowhere unfortunately! I guess it's about having the right headline

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3879622

i really like your project, good work! pintunes is a very simple idea that i did in a couple of hours, thanks to insomnia :)

I've been lucky with the headline, i think that this is my second post in hackernews and the first one was deleted for choosing a bad title.

good luck for the next time! thanks for comment

looks like a clone of sworly.com: http://sworly.com/

i never heard it before, looks amazing!

my version is pretty simple and ugly compared with sworly, i've done this in a couple of hours last night ;)

but it's not only itunes, the same script runs other sites like: http://migueldev.com/pin/slideshare.php http://migueldev.com/pin/toprural.php http://migueldev.com/pin/11870.php

all the source code is available on github: https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin

thanks for comment!

does itunes have an affiliate program? if so you could get some money out of this.

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