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Show HN: Listenbox ‒ Pocket for audio

12 points by meoyawn 7y ago

meoyawn 7y ago
Hello HN! I made Listenbox to catch up on my list of online talks, lectures and interviews to listen. Any feedback is good feedback, I hope you find it useful
joshstrange 7y ago
I was a little confused about this but after reading the ProductHunt page [0] and watching the video I think I've got an idea of what this is: Grab any video/audio url and paste it into this to add it to a custom podcast RSS feed. So effectively, take a URL, run youtube-dl on it converting it to an MP3, shove it into an RSS feed, and... profit? It's a really cool idea that might actually fly under the radar enough to not piss off content providers. If it was more of a marketplace/collection of podcast feeds for popular YT (or other) content then I'd be more worried. It still probably runs afoul of copyright laws but a little more in the "plex" category than the "limewire" category (in my eyes at least). Overall I like the idea, there is plenty of content that I don't need the accompanying video for OR is an audio source that won't play in the background on mobile. This also means I can use all the cool features of my preferred podcast player (Overcast [1]) specifically the smart speed and voice boost. There is a provided iOS Shortcut to easily add content to your playlist (just share the web page/link into the shortcut) and it looks like an equivalent for Android. I have youtube-dl server running that I can post URLs to and I created a Shortcut just for myself and it's awesome to be able to easily share a link to a video and know it's going to show up in Plex within the next few minutes. I imagine this will be similar. Lastly the creator should (if they don't already) have a bookmarklet or browser extension to make it easier on the desktop (the video shows you manually copy/pasting the url into the webpage). Congrats on shipping, this looks really neat! [0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/listenbox?utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge&utm_souce=badge-listenbox https://www.producthunt.com/posts/listenbox?utm_source=badge... [1] https://overcast.fm/ https://overcast.fm/
- meoyawn 7y ago
  wow, you're so much better than me in describing what I made :) Thank you so much
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12 points by meoyawn 7y ago

Hello HN! I made Listenbox to catch up on my list of online talks, lectures and interviews to listen. Any feedback is good feedback, I hope you find it useful

joshstrange 7y ago

I was a little confused about this but after reading the ProductHunt page [0] and watching the video I think I've got an idea of what this is: Grab any video/audio url and paste it into this to add it to a custom podcast RSS feed. So effectively, take a URL, run youtube-dl on it converting it to an MP3, shove it into an RSS feed, and... profit? It's a really cool idea that might actually fly under the radar enough to not piss off content providers. If it was more of a marketplace/collection of podcast feeds for popular YT (or other) content then I'd be more worried. It still probably runs afoul of copyright laws but a little more in the "plex" category than the "limewire" category (in my eyes at least). Overall I like the idea, there is plenty of content that I don't need the accompanying video for OR is an audio source that won't play in the background on mobile. This also means I can use all the cool features of my preferred podcast player (Overcast [1]) specifically the smart speed and voice boost. There is a provided iOS Shortcut to easily add content to your playlist (just share the web page/link into the shortcut) and it looks like an equivalent for Android. I have youtube-dl server running that I can post URLs to and I created a Shortcut just for myself and it's awesome to be able to easily share a link to a video and know it's going to show up in Plex within the next few minutes. I imagine this will be similar. Lastly the creator should (if they don't already) have a bookmarklet or browser extension to make it easier on the desktop (the video shows you manually copy/pasting the url into the webpage). Congrats on shipping, this looks really neat! [0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/listenbox?utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge&utm_souce=badge-listenbox https://www.producthunt.com/posts/listenbox?utm_source=badge... [1] https://overcast.fm/ https://overcast.fm/

meoyawn 7y ago
wow, you're so much better than me in describing what I made :) Thank you so much

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