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ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like
- lopatin 14y agoPretty cool. I made something similar (a site that played any song via YouTube) last year at a hackathon but I failed to think of such a creative idea, props.
- kposehn 14y agoInteresting. How are you playing the YouTube track in there?
- jpadilla_ 14y agoWe are just hiding the Youtube chromeless player away with some CSS and hooking up to it with js to make our own player
- kposehn 14y agoAhh, I see now. We've been working on a way to do the same without Flash - have you had any success with that?
- knowtheledge 14y agoIsn't that strictly against youtube TOS?
- jamesjyu 14y agoThis is probably the first Parse javascript app in the wild! Cool stuff guys.
- marcomassaro 14y agoVery cool
- mmmmax 14y agoWhere do you get the audio data from?
- flexterra 14y agoYouTube :\
- earbitscom 14y agoWhere will you get it when they shut this down?
- 100k 14y agoWith a name like flirttape, how are you supposed to pretend you're just being casual?
- vladsanchez 14y agoI guess it's up to you. Choose the appropriate songs... Go ahead, flirt!!! =D
- earbitscom 14y agoYou could: A) provide a disclaimer. "Hey, this isn't really a flirt tape, I just thought you would like these." OR B) stop being a nancy boy.
- nextstep 14y ago>>B) stop being a nancy boy. That's kind of rude, and very sexist. Please be polite, and maybe re-read this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- majormajor 14y agoWell, you shouldn't. So it's a good name!
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- lcusack 14y agoThis is fantastic. Mixtapes use to be such a great form of self-expression. Thanks for making a tool to bring them back!
- UnFleshedOne 14y agoIn opera with 120% zoom, purple bar partly covers edit box. Ah, also search doesn't work. :)
- maudineormsby 14y agoI made a tape and sent it to my wife right away, with a bunch of music that means a lot to us. It was a fantastic way to relive a lot of memories in a few minutes. Great idea, love it.
- roryokane 14y agoIt’s pretty buggy on Firefox. When I first loaded the site, it kept trying to search for something even though the search box was empty. Then I reloaded the page and compiled and saved a mix tape (http://flirttape.com/JRhANofRX9 http://flirttape.com/JRhANofRX9). But I couldn’t play any of the tracks with the player – no sound came out when playing, and clicking Next did nothing. Also, the Pause button that is the alternate of the Play button had its round button borders smaller than the pause symbol.
- nsomniact 14y agohaving the same issue
- jpadilla_ 14y agoTaking a look at it. I guess we didn't really test it in Firefox
- sachitgupta 14y agoSame issue in Chrome. Love the design!
- jpadilla_ 14y agoWhat kind of issues did you see on Chrome?
- sachitgupta 14y agoSame as roryokane, couldn't play the tracks. Clicking next goes to the next song, but no sound. EDIT: Also, the pause button thing, here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/sachitgupta/89s6a/flirttape https://skitch.com/sachitgupta/89s6a/flirttape
- mksteele 14y agoi wish it weren't called flirttape so I could send it to friends! also, i'm using IE (at work..) and it keeps throwing me errors
- pattern 14y agoWhere are you getting the song data (title / artist name) from? If it isn't scraped from YouTube, how do you match up the search results with YouTube videos? Good work! P.S. When viewing source (on Chrome, OS X) it shows the .search and .mixtape divs as blank! Is there a reason for this?
- nextstep 14y agoThis site is pretty much broken on Mobile Safari. The top banner in purple is cut off on the right and I have no way of scrolling over. :(
- hazelnut 14y agonice idea! but be prepared for lawyers ... these guys send ugly letters with long numbers :/
- shasta 14y agoYes, he needs to add "no copyright intended" to protect himself.
- politician 14y agoLest anyone misunderstand, shasta is referring to the practice of misinformed YouTube users adding that phrase to their videos as part of a cargo-cult-esque attempt to avoid drawing the attention of the ringwraiths of Sauron, er, lawyers of MPAA/RIAA.
- nickpresta 14y agoSearch doesn't work; It just spins indefinitely.
- mey 14y agoReminds me of the first iteration of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape
- ricefield 14y agothis was the shit when it came out. i wish i had taken screenshots - really admired muxtape (and a similar website.. i think it was called favstar?) for the incredibly clean UI and UX
- brodie 14y agoThere's an open source clone if you want to sate your nostalgia: http://opentape.fm/mixtape/ http://opentape.fm/mixtape/
- ricefield 14y agooh wow... nostalgic indeed. thanks for sharing!
- jstn 14y agothanks :) here's an archive of the original UI: http://justinouellette.com/muxtape/ http://justinouellette.com/muxtape/
- MyNewAccount99 14y agostartup in puerto rico? wow nice
- rpicard 14y agoJust a heads up that this link is broken on getblimp.com: http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/ http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/
- jpadilla_ 14y agoThanks for the heads up
- aiham 14y agoNot sure where else to report issues. I was able to search for songs, add them to a mixtape and share it via email. I wasn't able to play any songs though. After pressing play, it would send a request to the youtube API and receive a successful response (200 OK), but just sit there and not play anything. Each time I press next, the same thing would happen - a successful request then nothing.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoNone of the songs are available (Here is a screenshot after I made the player visible: http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg ) You guys may have been banned... looks like YouTube doesn't like to have its player hidden.
- jpadilla_ 14y agoSeems like we may have been banned :(
- freeslave 14y agoIndeed, this app totally violates the YouTube API terms: You aren't allowed to: "separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API; promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API; access any portion of any YouTube audiovisual content by any means other than use of a YouTube player or other video player expressly authorized by YouTube;" https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms Why wouldn't you read the API terms and comply with them before wasting all the development effort on something that will only get shut down? My advice is switch to the soundcloud API. http://developers.soundcloud.com/ http://developers.soundcloud.com/
- awad 14y agoThis seems pretty cool but I think you might have been banned...the player won't play. Which basically inevitably happens to every app I've seen that grabs songs off YouTube and repurposes it. The one that most sticks out to me is the old Songza.
- jpadilla_ 14y agoYea, I think we may have been banned.
- prezjordan 14y agoVery cool, every think about using Grooveshark players for this?
- ryangilbert 14y agoDoesn't seem to be working in Safari.
- AndrewNoNumbers 14y agoAm I the only one for whom this never worked? It didn't work 6 hours ago and it's not working now. Still Hacker News'd or just me?
- Jemm 14y agoWhen I loaded the page it was mostly blank. As soon as I Zoomed out the browser, the page loaded properly. Might have been a browser issue. Chrome 19.0.1084.54 on Lion.