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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 :)

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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

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