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What about OneDrive and Google Drive support?

These comments make sense from end-users but I feel like they're out of place on HN. I mean, sure OneDrive & GoogleDrive support can obviously be implemented down the road, but especially when first showing the idea off - it's way easier to keep it simple and get feedback to improve the product and then later integrate with more services.

These comments remind me of the few apps I've put out that start with an iOS version so we can collect / data & feedback so we can make future versions (on both platforms) better, but that info almost always gets shouted down by chants of "why not an android version?" The obvious answer of "it costs 2x time and resources" to get the first version out, almost always gets completely ignored.

Let's give feedback on this version - help him improve it & then worry about the other service integrations later.

I think you're taking the question as a veiled criticism. It's possible the question is just a question.

I don't think it's criticism, it's just not the most useful question they could be asking at this point in time. If he's showing off a new project - I think it's probably best to help improve what he currently has now and then worrying about the integrations later

Consider the perspective of someone who has never heard of a new piece of software before. They just want to know a bunch of things about it, so they can form a concept of it in their mind. This is one such question.

I don't disagree with what the author's focus should be, but I don't think that this question distracts from that.

I am a developer, I haven't dug into how he was processing the audio. I was simply asking a question. I don't use Dropbox so I was simply asking if it was on the roadmap so I could try it in the future.

I was just simply asking if it was on the roadmap. I don't use Dropbox so I can't try it out.

When I was looking at Google Drive API some time ago, it didn't—unlike the Dropbox API—support byte serving (partial requests). That is needed for efficient indexing of MP3 files without having to download them first. It may have since changed though. Otherwise I think it would be pretty much analogous to the Dropbox integration.

That is a needed piece, then you can play as it downloads instead of having to preload the entire file. Cool!

I bet it wouldn't be too much effort to add in more services, but I assume this meets his personal needs.

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes/tree/master/clou...

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