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Ask HN: Who all use YouTube only for music not the Video?
I'm planning to build a app with Youtube api which streams only the audio to reduce the usage of bandwidth. Will it be helpful?
- joeyspn 12y agoI'd personally use it... even playlists, but... is it legal? Did you read the ToS?
- smt88 12y agoI could see it going either way. Blind users can't see the video either way, so it could be positioned as an app to aid accessibility. On the other hand, YouTube makes money from visual ads.
- tomw1808 12y agodefinitely, me looking at chromecast here.
- mtmail 12y agoI used to listen to last.fm "radio" which starting 2013 switched to just streaming one Youtube video after the next. Example http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Deepcentral/similarartists http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Deepcentral/similarartists I've let it run in some browser tab in the background and there doesn't seem to be any time limit how long it can run. Bandwidth-wise it doesn't make sense at all. Owned by CBS Interactive so it's legit.