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The idea is simple: There's a ton of music content on YouTube and Demiba let's you take full advantage of it like you never could before. Demiba finds automatically the best quality versions for each song and offers many ways to listen to and discover music. Customizable radio stations that learns your preferences offer a great way to listen to your favorites and discover new ones. Exhaustive playlists allow you to instantly get complete playlists for artists and albums. With a personal library you can save your favorites for viewing at any time. Every page is live, so send a link to a friend and they can join the experience. A chat box will even open so you can communicate.

We're a small team of two developers who have been working on this for a while and now we're looking to get some feedback. We think we've made a pretty compelling music experience around YouTube and we're curious what you think.

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"Demiba finds automatically the best quality versions for each song"

sorry but on multiple tests i'm getting obscure solo-guitar covers of songs and sometimes shoddy quality live performances. just because something is in 720p doesnt mean its good quality!

example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S...!

thats probably not the best white of the clash - white riot on youtube

Our algorithm attempts to filter out things like covers and live performances, but admittedly it's not perfect. It works pretty well but there's definitely room for improvement. We're constantly improving this aspect because of how crucial it is to the product.

Thanks for that example, it'll help me tweak the algorithm to fix that occurrence. Thanks for the feedback!

alex, I've been working in music-tech now for a few years now, and I've been wanting this exact service for as long as I can remember. You really nailed it on the MVP. I've thought about this idea now for a while, would love to see where you're going with this. Also, with the right angle, I just know artists can get on board with this (especially since Youtube is the one of the only revenue sources that's actually growing for artists, across the board). Maybe that's thinking a few steps too far ahead, but this is really cool stuff and I can't help but to think of the possibilities for you :-)

I have lots of ideas of where we can go from here. We're just getting started and I think there's a lot to look forward to. I'm glad you like the idea. I've been waiting for this for a long time too. I'm just building the service that I want to use.

I've used tubair before and liked it, also will use your application but I wish you could have user voted results rise to the top. For example neither site shows the user the best version of the "The doors" song 'the end' because the best version on youtube is the clip from Apocalpse now. the studio probably cleaned it up when they made the movie. Also would like an application like this that could work with the screen off so I can use it on mobile phone. Thanks!

Been using http://www.mytubio.com/ for my tube mix parties.. I'll try this service, It would be great if there was a way to ensure videos are from VEVO and not a user submitted video that simply displays the lyrics.

Well the idea is that we have an algorithm that tries to select the best video in terms of quality. It's a natural consequence that we often select vevo videos, but we don't have a bias towards them, if there's a more suitable video available that is just lyrics we'll select that.

Nice feature finding the best quality version, I will try your service and check how it compares to http://musicplayr.com/ that I'm already using

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