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Access your music from anywhere without uploading
- endlessvoid94 19y agois this your site?
- hollywoodcole 19y agono, not my site. A great idea though.
- endlessvoid94 19y agoI'm working on the exact same idea. Good to see competition, but bad because I have been slacking off. Time to kick it in the ass.
- hooande 19y agoare these guys a YComb startup?
- immad 19y agonope
- altano 19y agoPlease throw an iPhone compatible interface on top of this
- endlessvoid94 19y agoI'm a student and was working on this exact idea, except I didn't want to force the user to download a desktop app, e.g., upload through your browser. Competition is a good thing, though, I guess. I need to kick it in the ass.
- cstejerean 19y agoCan you write something like this using a shoutcast server on your desktop and a flash shoutcast client? Both are basically freely available (seems like writing a shoutcast server is the new hello world application).
- endlessvoid94 19y agoWell, it seems to me to be simpler to just have the user upload music to the website. Why force users to download an executable? I should be paying attention to my computer architecture class, instead I'm frantically working on the uploader for my site :-D EDIT: I see your point. That seems to be a desired feature, but it isn't the priority. I think the priority now is to make it easiest for the most users. I think uploading is the best way to do that.
- ejs 19y agoI see no point to the upload method, at least for myself. I would not want to upload gigs of music, I would rather just stream it like this service. I used to do this with FTP but this looks like a more elegant solution to running an FTP server.
- endlessvoid94 19y agoI can understand that. However, my target audience is not the hacker news readership :-D My target was people who don't want to set up a streaming server from their desktop computer, so they can upload the music. I wasn't actually aware of anywhere.fm. It seems to be written all in flash (or flex) and I really don't like that. So mine is mostly javascript and css/html.
- cstejerean 19y agoCan you actually stream music in pure Javascript? Or are you planning to keep the UI in HTML and just use a small flash plugin for the actual streaming? I like that idea, I'll volunteer as a beta tester for when you need some.
- iamwil 19y agoIf you go down a couple songs down, you can hear an acoustic version of "Baby got Back" Oh, does it bring back memories.