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Show HN: Napster.fm, Napster reimagined for the modern Web
- jamesgagan 14y agoPretty sure not displaying the video is a violation of the YouTube API TOS: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms Also have a feeling the owners of the napster trademarks won't like your domain name much!
- chime 14y agoSo then it is exactly like the original Napster, reimagined for the web.
- alpb 14y agoHaha this was so good.
- NotUncivil 14y agoPerhaps you could build something like this using a social network known to be pirate-friendly, e.g., VK.com, as the music source?
- Toshio 14y agoThe title should be: "Rick-rolling, reimagined for the HN crowd."
- ihuman 14y agoYou can select other songs; the default when you first start is a rickroll.
- Toshio 14y agoI tried looking for "22" by Taylor Swift, song not found.
- ihuman 14y agoI guess not every song is in its database. "Human After All" by Daft Punk worked for me.
- DanBlake 14y agoThe 'Database' is just a youtube search with no visual video player, no?
- timerickson 14y agoCorrect.
- buu700 14y agoNot exactly; as mentioned in the About section, the database I'm using is actually Discogs: http://discogs.com/ http://discogs.com/. YouTube is only used as a source of music.
- epenn 14y agoRyan, I would strongly encourage you to rename this. For obvious reasons.
- DanBlake 14y agoThis wont last very long. Youtube is serious about enforcing the size limit on their videos. They actively contact people who do this type of thing and block their IP/API access. They find out about it in 2 ways: 1: When a youtube employee notices it manually 2: When automated API's detects there are no ad clicks. Also, using the napster brand is stupid. That company still exists and would be thrilled to take your domain : http://www.napster.com/ http://www.napster.com/
- tuxidomasx 14y agoHow would they do this for client-side applications? I made a desktop application that essentially streams & rips (to mp3) Youtube videos but doesn't show any of the video data at all-- never had any issue with blocking or limits. To do so would mean blocking regular browser access too (since the app behaves like a browser, even to the level of requesting other page resources). I imagine it would be difficult to tell the difference using heuristics.
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- DanBlake 14y agoIt does not work for desktop applications, since all the requests come from clients IP. If your product got popular enough, I am sure they would send you with legal motivation to stop.
- earbitscom 14y agoJust fyi, this is 100% broken on my galaxy s3.
- buu700 14y agoYep, that's my bad. I forgot to put in a redirect for mobile devices to another page explaining that they weren't yet supported, but I'll throw something up now.
- volaski 14y agoSo... you're saying it's like Napster because it's open source? No matter how you want to package it, when you build something on top of a centralized system or content source, it's called building a castle on sand.
- buu700 14y agoSo... you're saying it's like Napster because it's open source? Well, no; I didn't say that. Napster wasn't open source, as far as I know.
- sauerbraten 14y agoI get this blue ball spinning and spinning and nothing happens... Chrome 26.0.1410.63 on Ubuntu 12.04.2. Also, the name is not really fitting.
- buu700 14y agoThat's odd; I've actually been primarily developing/testing this on Chrome/Ubuntu. How long did you wait for the application to fully load? It usually takes ~5 seconds. (I'm hoping this ends up being better feedback on my UX than my performance, because the site randomly not loading at all would definitely be a problem.) The name was chosen because Napster.fm is meant to be a very close approximation of the Napster UI design and feature set (and then some).
- weego 14y agolocked my firefox, concerned brow, and pressed back as fast as I could.
- Aaronneyer 14y agoSo to show it's more modern, you take the name add .fm... Alright then
- buu700 14y agoSo to show it's more modern, you take the name add .fm... No, I don't believe that there is anything about the .fm TLD which in and of itself implies modernity.
- shacharz 14y agoI'd call it video-free youtube
- diziet 14y agohttps://www.youtube.com/disco https://www.youtube.com/disco works a lot better at this point
- buu700 14y agoLooks interesting, thanks. I'll have to look more into that and see if it could be a useful path to adding in "radio" functionality (one thing I'd really like to see in Napster.fm at some point).
- oms1005 14y agoI don't know about that. Click on Eminem, which is one of their options, and you see "No results found for 'Eminem'."
- imperialdrive 14y agodid we all just get rick-rolled like that?!!!
- buu700 14y agoYes.
- dbz 14y agoI don't see how this is reimagined. It offers nothing that spotify or soundcloud doesn't. It's also slower, but you're on the front page of HN, so that's forgivable, but I wouldn't wait 10 seconds for something to load if I wanted to use it regularly and there were great alternatives (check out soundcloud). There are much much more important features in a music player than real-time syncing.
- nnnnni 14y agoGrooveshark is also good
- yashodhan 14y agoI too am nostalgic about my Napster days. But if what others are saying is true, that either YouTube or Napster will come after you, I think you could've been a bit smarter about this. Also, have you considered using the Grooveshark API?