Ask HN: Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music | Hacker News Reader

Ask HN: Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music

7 pointsdanhak9 comments

Hi All,

I've been home on summer break for the past week and just hacked together this Twitter application to keep busy. It's a quick and easy service for sharing music. There are a few similar sites out there but to my knowledge this is the only one that lets you preview songs before tweeting them or upload your own MP3s.

I'd really appreciate it if some fellow hackers could try it out, give suggestions or let me know about any bugs.

http://www.songtwit.com

Thanks!

View on HN

What's supposed to happen when I click on a listing after a search? Right now nothing happens. There's also a blank grey rectangle on the right. I'm using Chrome 1.0.154.65. Do I need flash installed for something to happen?

You're supposed to see a preview of the song that you picked (either a YouTube or iMeem flash embed).

Yes, you need flash installed. But I'm installing Chrome right now to see if there's something else going on.

What's your anti-RIAA (read copywritten material) story? Seems like a good idea (I'm about to try it out), but seems like a slipperly legal slope.

I'm taking the Songza approach: all the music is directly from YouTube or iMeem...I'm not hosting anything.

Btw, I think playbacks of uploaded songs are shortened to only play a segment of the track. Can you verify that's definitely the case?

hmm..are you outside the US by any chance? I think iMeem limits songs to 30 seconds if they don't have the rights in that country. It sucks pretty hard but I'd rather go through this (legitimate) channel than host the songs myself and face potential legal issues.

I tried uploading a track, tweeted it to all my followers, then was told that the track wasn't ready to play yet...grrrrr....

Sorry about that...looks like it's up now.

I'm using iMeem's API to handle MP3 uploads and it takes a few seconds for them to process everything. I don't think there's anything I could do about that. If you could think of an alternative I'd love to try it out as I find this annoying too.

Thanks for the blog post, too, by the way.

no probs, i genuinely think there's a place for this...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com