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?<p>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.
Songza.fm allowed you to listen to music from YouTube in 2007, although lacked the Pandora-like features. In 2010, YouTube blocked their use of the API.<p>Interestingly, they pivoted into a 'better Pandora' where they license music, allow playing similar songs, but also let users hand-pick songs for playlists (that for licensing reasons can only be played by other people).<p><a href="http://evolver.fm/2011/03/30/songza-attempts-to-reinvent-net-radio-despite-heavy-competition/" rel="nofollow">http://evolver.fm/2011/03/30/songza-attempts-to-reinvent-net...</a>
Very nice, a good idea cleanly implemented. One suggestion would be to query amazon recommendations for similar artists to help work out what to play. This is only because then you could also possibly allow people to buy or add things to their wish list from your site. If you were thinking about revenue that is.<p>Good work.
It's clean and simple and maybe useful but the only problem I see is it replaying the same popular songs over and over. I put in Mumford and Sons and Little Lion Man was in the playlist several times over just because it's one of their most popular songs and there are variations and what not. If you could put in some kind of function that doesn't show videos more than once or twice that'd be handy.
Wow, this is wonderful. I have always been shocked at how commonly people Youtube for music and how much better that system could be. You've chosen a great problem to solve.<p>Feedback:<p>• I love the Similar button.<p>• Perhaps the links to the videos could be outline or something, right now it's hard to distinguish them from eachother because it's a mass of text. I mean of course the design of this is very minimalistic and the main focus here is the function, but for now that would be my main design criticism.<p>• You should filter for the word "with" preceding an artist's name in the video title. Also perhaps "and", or any sort of list of names after an occurrence of "with," because I got one video for the query "Avi Buffalo" that was "Look Out for My Love Jeff Tweedy <i>with</i> Avi Buffalo, Solid sound August 15 2010," which is of course not Avi Buffalo at all.<p>EDIT: Also, the ability to search while still keeping the current song playing at the top would be nice.
This is awesome! I am trying to embed tubalr within a browser-based desktop environment and have a pair of (hopefully) quick requests:<p>1. I'd like to be able to pass in something via the URL that allows me to set the wmode of the video to be opaque or transparent.
This is to prevent z-index conflicts when I have two separate tubalr iframes that overlap each other when I drag those iframes around.<p>2. For the initial video that tubalr loads, I'd like to be able to pass in something via the URL that controls whether the first video autoplays or not.
This is to prevent multiple videos from playing at the same time when I have multiple tubalr iframes on a page.<p>Example Interface:
<a href="http://beta.mindcast.com/ui/4kug9iozh54y" rel="nofollow">http://beta.mindcast.com/ui/4kug9iozh54y</a>
This is pretty cool! I use YouTube for music all the time -- I'm not quite sure. I keep finding music apps that aren't quite right, and don't have what I want to hear (or not set up how I want to use them), and I end up back at YouTube, which indeed sucks for this.<p>No useful advice at the moment, beyond a vague suggestion to revisit the domain name choice (if somehow you're not wedded to this one by now, and you see many other folks with reactions like mine). I'm still not quite sure of the intended reading, but first I saw a slightly jumbled "tubgirl"(!), then I saw "two-baller"; now I'm stuck with a reference to "tubal" (as in tubal ligation? ...) with a flickr-style ending. Maybe just put an "about" link somewhere that gives a hint?
Great! Pandora(-ish) for the rest of us.<p>Something you might want to address : I've searched for The Prodigy, and I got "Amanda Bynes' 2010 Maxim Cover Shoot". I'm not sure where that came from!
AOL Radio used to offer single artist radio stations. Now that AOL Radio is powered by Slacker, they dropped this feature. As far as I know no other internet radio service offers this. Now your tubalr does (at least, in a sense). Which makes it stand out, at least to me. Thanks for the nice site!<p>EDIT: I see if you reload the site and pick the same artist again, the same videos come up in the same order. Some randomization would go a long ways.
Loving the similiar feature. Already found three bands that I had never heard of before that have tunes that are right up my alley. Very nice work.<p>One thing and I dont' know if it's possible, but is there a way to have it where if the video is flagged as no longer there, it's not returned in the results? I get about a 25% to 50% rate where the video is listed, but doesn't play.
Cool. My first impression is that this is also a good tool to get news on artists - because the first band I looked up was the Stone Roses; and I was gobsmacked (as the English say) that the first hit was of their press conference announcing their reunion. Big news to me, and way more important than rewatching an old video!
Thanks!! I have been waiting for this. There's lots of stuff on Youtube that isn't anywhere else. Suggestions: Let me search for Youtube playlists. Somehow, songs could be connected in a network of similar songs by mapping the playlists. Also, let me create link for the current playlist/song.
Unfortunately, it may be against YouTube's Terms of Service since it strips the video from the content. <a href="http://evolver.fm/2011/03/25/how-youtube-radio-disappeared-from-the-itunes-app-store/" rel="nofollow">http://evolver.fm/2011/03/25/how-youtube-radio-disappeared-f...</a>
Pretty cool and simple. How do you get the "similiar Artist" feature?<p>Also, that is a pretty great font for your logo. For anyone else interested he uses "Pacifico": <a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/pacifico" rel="nofollow">http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/pacifico</a>
Chrome 14, 10.7 OS X. Was only able to get the first video to play when I went to ONLY. I watched a video in entirety. Clicking a video title or next would not switch videos.
very nice, simple and sleek design. I really like it.<p>the only downside i see which i noticed other people mentioning as well is when i search for let's say "Coldplay" the first 2-3 songs are the same which would require me to play next. it's a lot simpler than the Youtube playlist so once you add the playlist functionality and some algorithm to get rid of duplicates it'll be a very useful service.<p>How are you planning to monetize this? or are you doing this just as a hobby?
this rocks, I wanted to make something like this in the past but the idea died I hope you get a lot of users.
What I would do is add an auto complete like the one on youtube.com just to make things a lot simpler
Good luck
another similar site is <a href="http://fermademuzica.ro/" rel="nofollow">http://fermademuzica.ro/</a> (.ro only) that has playlist, thumbnails, similar artists, top songs