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This is really cool - do you think it would be possible (I'm not necessarily suggesting you implement it) to do some basic NLP to get artist/title from YouTube
by alexholehouse 15y ago
This is really cool - do you think it would be possible (I'm not necessarily suggesting you implement it) to do some basic NLP to get artist/title from YouTube video names, meaning you could search for an artist and see what's available?
Clearly it wouldn't be perfect, but a reasonably consistent format seems to be <title - band>. It might be possible to use a combination of "links to" and video viewcounts to acts as indicators of authenticity? I mean, I've hardly done much research into this, but I know when I look for music on youtube I almost always use those metrics to determine which videos I'm going to listen to, as it were.
- cjstewart88 15y agoI might could throw in suggestions as your typing your search, so if you started typing "Band of Horses" it would hit last.fm and pull back a handful of their song titles and allow you to quickly choose from those if you wish. Let me know if this is kind of what your talking about or if im way off. Thanks a lot for the feedback.
- alexholehouse 15y agoThat would be awesome, and perhaps easier to implement?
- bokonon 15y agoSince you're already using the last.fm api, might I suggest you add a simple scrobbling feature. If I were to use Tubalr often I would really want to be able to scrobble all the songs I've listened to through it.
- cjstewart88 15y agoI'm thinking about adding a set of features that allow you to register, login, and favorite songs. Maybe when you favorite songs they can also be "scrobbled" if your account is connected with last.fm.