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Thanks a lot. I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jum

Thanks a lot. I finally decided to try my hand at coding and this is the result of about 2 weeks of learning. I decided to skip the tutorials and books and jumped straight into coding. The code's mess but it works and that's great. I still have a lot to learn, but I do plan on adding three features: 1. Have new searches not interrupt the current song. 2. Make the video resizable. 3. Add playlists. I actually asked a fellow HN-ers to help out with this because I don't think I'll be able to handle databases yet. Glad you liked it.

samirahmed 14y ago
I would also recommend hiding the auto-suggest right hand side bar until everything is loaded and then sliding it into view when ready. I suggest this for 2 reasons, 1. I initially clicked the song and the first thing I noticed, before I the music played was the "this might take 90 seconds dialog" and I was ready to kill the tab thinking. 2. Just the fact that it says this might take a long time, is a 'downer', its better to make that view visible when it is ready so that user doesn't have to ever know of the fact that you have a process that takes 90 seconds.
- ashraful 14y ago
  Thanks for the tip.
habosa 14y ago
This is the first thing you ever coded? That's fantastic, it's a great product.
- ashraful 14y ago
  I am a designer, and have coded HTML/CSS before. I have been trying to learn coding for years, but never get beyond the intro chapters in most books. So this is my project. I just picked PHP (because it seemed to be simple enough - just drop <?php ?> into the HTML), and decided to code this concept. Lots of stackoverflow and github searches later I finally have a working version.
  - habosa 14y ago
    Ah the HTML/CSS background explains a lot. Because most first-time coders could never make anything this nice looking. And it's very functional too, so I'm definitely not trying to bash your PHP skills.

samirahmed 14y ago

I would also recommend hiding the auto-suggest right hand side bar until everything is loaded and then sliding it into view when ready. I suggest this for 2 reasons, 1. I initially clicked the song and the first thing I noticed, before I the music played was the "this might take 90 seconds dialog" and I was ready to kill the tab thinking. 2. Just the fact that it says this might take a long time, is a 'downer', its better to make that view visible when it is ready so that user doesn't have to ever know of the fact that you have a process that takes 90 seconds.

ashraful 14y ago
Thanks for the tip.

habosa 14y ago

This is the first thing you ever coded? That's fantastic, it's a great product.

ashraful 14y ago
I am a designer, and have coded HTML/CSS before. I have been trying to learn coding for years, but never get beyond the intro chapters in most books. So this is my project. I just picked PHP (because it seemed to be simple enough - just drop <?php ?> into the HTML), and decided to code this concept. Lots of stackoverflow and github searches later I finally have a working version.
- habosa 14y ago
  Ah the HTML/CSS background explains a lot. Because most first-time coders could never make anything this nice looking. And it's very functional too, so I'm definitely not trying to bash your PHP skills.