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Pandora for Music Videos

47 points by jamiew 15y ago

Combines Pandora/Last.fm music recommendations with the new VHX.tv embeddable player to make endless streams of recommended music. More info on Casey Pugh's blog: http://caseypugh.com

alexsherrick 15y ago
I must say... I like this.
chriswesallen 15y ago
This site is awesome....Im not sure its actually giving recommendations it seems just like the similar links from youtube but great idea
tmugavero 15y ago
Made at Hackday.tv in NYC this past weekend? Great job guys! Some very interesting hacks came out of this event.
koopajah 15y ago
This is pretty fun! But would there be a way to avoid having too many videos of the same artist to help discover new ones maybe? Seems that most of the artists I tried returns a lot of songs with the same artist (especially the one searched). Also why limit the number of results? I tried a few and it does not seem to be "hardcoded" anyway.
- caseypugh 15y ago
  It was made in 24 hours! I'm working on improving the results and making it endless.
  - koopajah 15y ago
    I'd love that! Other improvements would be to have account and allow us to tag artist we really dislike or really like/know, etc. Another last minute thing, it would be nice to clear the background when performing a new search! I had the bad luck of launching a new search right when the previous clip displayed a lovely woman in underwear and I wouldn't love to see this at work :p
mkrecny 15y ago
Was at Hackday.TV this weekend - and must say these guys (creators of VHX) did an amazing job. Well done guys!
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Omnipresent 15y ago
really gonna enjoy this on my google tv.
superted 15y ago
Looking good! And it was made in 24h? Excellent work guys! On a similar note, check out http://www.tubufy.com http://www.tubufy.com. Basically a Spotify/Last.FM/MOG playlist -> video channel tool that I released into the wild this summer.
keecham 15y ago
Just my two cents... a great idea, and if it was pulled together in 24 hours then bravo! The site needs to be tightened up though, I got no results for my favorite artist and for another artist the first two "videos" weren't videos.
caseypugh 15y ago
Read more here about the history and direction of the site: http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081
- aw3c2 15y ago
  Obfuscated link's destination is http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 Please do not post obfuscated links.
jerrya 15y ago
This seems very similar to tubalr.com, which was on Hacker News 2-3 months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428774 I like them both.
iloveyouocean 15y ago
See also: http://viddyjam.com http://viddyjam.com
jerrya 15y ago
Sites like musicvideogenome.com and tubalr.com (and netflix) make me want some sort of app or widget that can scrape/redirect video from a portion of my browser or screen and turn it into a source that VLC can multicast across my network.
- hammock 15y ago
  There are solutions (if you google) for live screencasting a part of your desktop to the web. If you want to skip the step of uploading to web, seems you could always remote in to the computer from another terminal and adjust the window so it show just the video?
  - jerrya 15y ago
    Thanks. What I am looking for is a simple, inexpensive (free), way to multicast a part of my screen to various unused monitors around my place. So I can pretend to be Best Buy, or a pub and have all my monitors from living room to bedroom to bathroom all be showing the same YouTube video or netflix movie. For instance, for audio, I used squeezeserver. VLC can do something similar if it's given a VLC friendly source (which seems from my experience to basically be a hardware device.) VLC doesn't solve the problem of synchronization that squeezeserver addresses, but it does make the multicasting and display portion of the problem easy. I don't know of anything (for free or inexpensive) that can do that yet....
mrpollo 15y ago
If its the Pandora for Music Videos wheres the Like button on the video? i want to start customizing the channel i just created! Well done!
yeahyeahs 15y ago
Well, this is awesome.

47 points by jamiew 15y ago

Combines Pandora/Last.fm music recommendations with the new VHX.tv embeddable player to make endless streams of recommended music. More info on Casey Pugh's blog: http://caseypugh.com

alexsherrick 15y ago

I must say... I like this.

chriswesallen 15y ago

This site is awesome....Im not sure its actually giving recommendations it seems just like the similar links from youtube but great idea

tmugavero 15y ago

Made at Hackday.tv in NYC this past weekend? Great job guys! Some very interesting hacks came out of this event.

koopajah 15y ago

This is pretty fun! But would there be a way to avoid having too many videos of the same artist to help discover new ones maybe? Seems that most of the artists I tried returns a lot of songs with the same artist (especially the one searched). Also why limit the number of results? I tried a few and it does not seem to be "hardcoded" anyway.

caseypugh 15y ago
It was made in 24 hours! I'm working on improving the results and making it endless.
- koopajah 15y ago
  I'd love that! Other improvements would be to have account and allow us to tag artist we really dislike or really like/know, etc. Another last minute thing, it would be nice to clear the background when performing a new search! I had the bad luck of launching a new search right when the previous clip displayed a lovely woman in underwear and I wouldn't love to see this at work :p

mkrecny 15y ago

Was at Hackday.TV this weekend - and must say these guys (creators of VHX) did an amazing job. Well done guys!

deleted 15y ago

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Omnipresent 15y ago

really gonna enjoy this on my google tv.

superted 15y ago

Looking good! And it was made in 24h? Excellent work guys! On a similar note, check out http://www.tubufy.com http://www.tubufy.com. Basically a Spotify/Last.FM/MOG playlist -> video channel tool that I released into the wild this summer.

keecham 15y ago

Just my two cents... a great idea, and if it was pulled together in 24 hours then bravo! The site needs to be tightened up though, I got no results for my favorite artist and for another artist the first two "videos" weren't videos.

caseypugh 15y ago

Read more here about the history and direction of the site: http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081

aw3c2 15y ago
Obfuscated link's destination is http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 http://www.caseypugh.com/post/10164711081 Please do not post obfuscated links.

jerrya 15y ago

This seems very similar to tubalr.com, which was on Hacker News 2-3 months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428774 I like them both.

iloveyouocean 15y ago

See also: http://viddyjam.com http://viddyjam.com

jerrya 15y ago

Sites like musicvideogenome.com and tubalr.com (and netflix) make me want some sort of app or widget that can scrape/redirect video from a portion of my browser or screen and turn it into a source that VLC can multicast across my network.

hammock 15y ago
There are solutions (if you google) for live screencasting a part of your desktop to the web. If you want to skip the step of uploading to web, seems you could always remote in to the computer from another terminal and adjust the window so it show just the video?
- jerrya 15y ago
  Thanks. What I am looking for is a simple, inexpensive (free), way to multicast a part of my screen to various unused monitors around my place. So I can pretend to be Best Buy, or a pub and have all my monitors from living room to bedroom to bathroom all be showing the same YouTube video or netflix movie. For instance, for audio, I used squeezeserver. VLC can do something similar if it's given a VLC friendly source (which seems from my experience to basically be a hardware device.) VLC doesn't solve the problem of synchronization that squeezeserver addresses, but it does make the multicasting and display portion of the problem easy. I don't know of anything (for free or inexpensive) that can do that yet....

mrpollo 15y ago

If its the Pandora for Music Videos wheres the Like button on the video? i want to start customizing the channel i just created! Well done!

yeahyeahs 15y ago

Well, this is awesome.