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Tubalr, YouTube without all the bullshit.

13 points by cjstewart88 16y ago

cjstewart88 16y ago
give it a shot
michaelpinto 16y ago
Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.
- mdonahoe 16y ago
  Youtube has always been kinda cluttered. I hear youtube is run mostly independently from the rest of google, so im not surprised that it is hasnt gotten the minimalist treatment
lappet 16y ago
How does it find similar artists?
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  I take the top 20 similar artist from the last.fm API and then take the number one video for each artist and serve them up :)
mcnemesis 16y ago
interesting, was able to scroll Canibus's music as if it was a DVD menu! lovely. Using apis, scraping or pattern mining?
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  YouTube and Last.FM's APIs
akanet 16y ago
this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  Heres something quick and dirty: A user input's a band or artist... or really anything they want to. You can insert Football, Funny, LOL Cats, or anything else you can think of. I'm aiming for people to use Tubalr for bands and artists, but it dosnt really matter, long as it has a use! Then Tubalr posts to YouTube.com and retrieves a list of the top YouTube videos for whatever was searched excluding videos that dont allow embeding(I post to gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/… to determine if its embeddable, and throw it out if its not). Then Tubalr does some parsing and rips out the video ids and puts them away for the next step. Once there is a list of all the videos, I then use YouTube's API to embed the YouTube player with the correct video. The YouTube API allows you to determine on the fly if a video is paused, finished, or any other state you can think of. Once a video is complete, it simply embeds the next video, using some jquery and a .php file with the player in it. So what if a user hits the "Similar Artist/Bands"... well, Tubalr uses audioscrobbler.net's API by doing something like below! Tubalr hits ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/ARTIST_NAME_HERE/… and grabs the top 20 similar artists/bands and stores them for the next step. Once Tubalr has the list of 20 similar bands/artists, it hits YouTube up for the number one video for each artists. Then, after Tubalr has all the similar videos we just use the YouTube API to embed just like we did for the default option!
bartl 16y ago
I don't like the wooden background. I think it's tacky, and it's precisely not the minimal approach you are promoting. Otherwise: good work. The selection of music it gets me when selecting an artist is rather impressive. I can see me using this a lot.
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  Thanks man, I guess I can agree with you on the background.
  - booleanCA 16y ago
    Good work on fixing the background :) I feel the only thing missing is seeing what videos are coming up next. So rather than hitting "Next" and "Previous", it would be nice to see a row of thumbnail videos underneath the main video so I can skip around like a grooveshark playlist. Edit - Gee willickers the site is fast! Really cool :D
    - cjstewart88 16y ago
      Thanks man glad ya like it :) I like the idea of listing out upcoming songs... now only to figure out a way to do this without cluttering up the ui!
enygmata 16y ago
This is how i see it: http://imgur.com/dA15I http://imgur.com/dA15I Unfortunately I'm not interested in registering stuff at imageshack.
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  Not really sure why thats showing up for a background, the images for the bg is hosted on the server.
jerrya 16y ago
I've been using this all day today. It's very nice but I wish I could enlarge the videos to full-screen.
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  I'll look into adding this ability, I tried enabling it today; however, it just wouldn't work. It added the icon to the player to go to full screen, but it simply would work. Glad you've had a use for the app and thanks for using it!
  - jerrya 16y ago
    Yes I really it. I hope you succeed with it, (and that YouTube goes the route of hiring you rather than shutting you down!) On my wish list for your app would be the ability to synchronize two browsers to the same stream....
    - cjstewart88 16y ago
      Hah, I wish, I dout anyone from YouTube will even notice it :P
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  Full-screen is now available, enjoy!
pyeahtras 16y ago
Are you doing anything to filter the non music-related results from youtube?
- cjstewart88 16y ago
  I'm just getting the 20 most relevant results.

13 points by cjstewart88 16y ago

give it a shot

Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.

mdonahoe 16y ago
Youtube has always been kinda cluttered. I hear youtube is run mostly independently from the rest of google, so im not surprised that it is hasnt gotten the minimalist treatment

lappet 16y ago

How does it find similar artists?

cjstewart88 16y ago
I take the top 20 similar artist from the last.fm API and then take the number one video for each artist and serve them up :)

mcnemesis 16y ago

interesting, was able to scroll Canibus's music as if it was a DVD menu! lovely. Using apis, scraping or pattern mining?

cjstewart88 16y ago
YouTube and Last.FM's APIs

akanet 16y ago

this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?

cjstewart88 16y ago
Heres something quick and dirty: A user input's a band or artist... or really anything they want to. You can insert Football, Funny, LOL Cats, or anything else you can think of. I'm aiming for people to use Tubalr for bands and artists, but it dosnt really matter, long as it has a use! Then Tubalr posts to YouTube.com and retrieves a list of the top YouTube videos for whatever was searched excluding videos that dont allow embeding(I post to gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/… to determine if its embeddable, and throw it out if its not). Then Tubalr does some parsing and rips out the video ids and puts them away for the next step. Once there is a list of all the videos, I then use YouTube's API to embed the YouTube player with the correct video. The YouTube API allows you to determine on the fly if a video is paused, finished, or any other state you can think of. Once a video is complete, it simply embeds the next video, using some jquery and a .php file with the player in it. So what if a user hits the "Similar Artist/Bands"... well, Tubalr uses audioscrobbler.net's API by doing something like below! Tubalr hits ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/ARTIST_NAME_HERE/… and grabs the top 20 similar artists/bands and stores them for the next step. Once Tubalr has the list of 20 similar bands/artists, it hits YouTube up for the number one video for each artists. Then, after Tubalr has all the similar videos we just use the YouTube API to embed just like we did for the default option!

bartl 16y ago

I don't like the wooden background. I think it's tacky, and it's precisely not the minimal approach you are promoting. Otherwise: good work. The selection of music it gets me when selecting an artist is rather impressive. I can see me using this a lot.

cjstewart88 16y ago
Thanks man, I guess I can agree with you on the background.
- booleanCA 16y ago
  Good work on fixing the background :) I feel the only thing missing is seeing what videos are coming up next. So rather than hitting "Next" and "Previous", it would be nice to see a row of thumbnail videos underneath the main video so I can skip around like a grooveshark playlist. Edit - Gee willickers the site is fast! Really cool :D
  - cjstewart88 16y ago
    Thanks man glad ya like it :) I like the idea of listing out upcoming songs... now only to figure out a way to do this without cluttering up the ui!

enygmata 16y ago

This is how i see it: http://imgur.com/dA15I http://imgur.com/dA15I Unfortunately I'm not interested in registering stuff at imageshack.

cjstewart88 16y ago
Not really sure why thats showing up for a background, the images for the bg is hosted on the server.

jerrya 16y ago

I've been using this all day today. It's very nice but I wish I could enlarge the videos to full-screen.

cjstewart88 16y ago
I'll look into adding this ability, I tried enabling it today; however, it just wouldn't work. It added the icon to the player to go to full screen, but it simply would work. Glad you've had a use for the app and thanks for using it!
- jerrya 16y ago
  Yes I really it. I hope you succeed with it, (and that YouTube goes the route of hiring you rather than shutting you down!) On my wish list for your app would be the ability to synchronize two browsers to the same stream....
  - cjstewart88 16y ago
    Hah, I wish, I dout anyone from YouTube will even notice it :P
cjstewart88 16y ago
Full-screen is now available, enjoy!

pyeahtras 16y ago

Are you doing anything to filter the non music-related results from youtube?

cjstewart88 16y ago
I'm just getting the 20 most relevant results.