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Show HN: roll.io eats txt files and shits youtube videos. Useful?

234 点作者 hafifuyku将近 14 年前

58 条评论

ssdsa将近 14 年前
I wonder why everyone seems to get what this does from reading the description. When I read "eat and shit", I assume that the "food" is "transformed" into ... youtube videos. So I thought this would generate new videos and upload them to youtube automatically, maybe showing the txt files as a huge StarWars scroller, or something.
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miguelpais将近 14 年前
WOW! I had exactly this idea at a Hackaton festival called Codebits in Portugal in November last year and presented it[1] to the audience but didn't receive that much excitement from them about my implementation done in 12 hours using JS and Rails3.<p>Now I see I should have stick to it. Deep inside me I knew if the service would be useful to me, it would be to some other folks, but I was a bit disappointed and didn't correct the bugs that the project had.<p>Here is the website if you guys want to check:<p>[1] <a href="http://youtubemyplaylist.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">http://youtubemyplaylist.heroku.com/</a><p>It is buggy, sometimes doesn't change to the next video and it lacks the controls and the display of the playlist as this site does and it is a lot slower. It also lacks the upload of a text file. But I had other ideas in mind, the mode implemented was supposed to be the "feeling lucky" mode, where you just typed each video one per line and hoped it would match to the video you wanted, but you'd also have a way to create playlist more carefully by passing the exact urls of the videos you wanted, like this site does.<p>How do you overcome this feeling when you know you should have sticked to your guts?<p>Anyway, good work guys! This is exactly what I wanted.
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yellowbkpk将近 14 年前
When I clicked on a "Death Cab For Cutie" video in the list I was shown a 50-minute academic video about search engine quality. Slightly ironic.
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mgkimsal将近 14 年前
i misunderstood it at first. i thought you meant it would parse out a text file looking for meaning/relevancy and give you videos based on the text.<p>It's nice what you've done, just wasn't my first reaction to the Show HN text.
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jaysonelliot将近 14 年前
Once you get what it does, it becomes addictive.<p>I hope this idea stays as focused and bloat-free as it is right now, I just love it.
p4bl0将近 14 年前
YouTube's playlist management is a PITA, so this is really a great idea. And it's done following the KISS principle, kudos!
karolist将近 14 年前
Thanks for sharing, this looks useful, though not sure the shit mantra is necessary.
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jannes将近 14 年前
Do you think this would also work with Grooveshark? The problem with YouTube is that most music videos are geo-blocked outside the US, or at least for my country they are. (So are Pandora, Spotify, etc.) Furthermore I believe that Grooveshark's song library is bigger anyway, so it would be an improvement for everyone.<p>Grooveshark offers widgets, so in theory it could work. <a href="http://widgets.grooveshark.com/make" rel="nofollow">http://widgets.grooveshark.com/make</a>
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atacrawl将近 14 年前
Definitely gets an upvote from me. Probably the neatest music site idea I've seen since the now-defunct Muxtape.
superasn将近 14 年前
I had a similar idea for a winamp/itunes plugin a while back. Basically it turns your mp3 playlist a plays the music video of it from YouTube. You can find more about it here: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/27/songrefernce-turns-your-mp3-playlist-into-a-video-playlist/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/27/songrefernce-turns-your-mp3...</a>
rmc将近 14 年前
I was a bit confused at first. You should have more details on how it works
PaulJoslin将近 14 年前
I really like this, I had a similar idea a few years ago with 'YouLink' - essentially solving the playlist problem of YouTube - but I didn't think of making such a simple and clean execution. Mine was more Youtube meets iTunes style - pre Spotify days.<p>Plus back then, bandwidth was not so great / YouTube often buffered causing breaks in the music. So I abandoned the project.<p>However Roll.io is a great solution, often I have the situation where I have a track listing for something that I can find individual songs for on youtube, but need to quickly make a playlist out of it, but don't due to the horrible youtube playlist interface.<p>This is especially true when it comes to 'Remixed' music where the songs have particular unique names. e.g. <a href="http://roll.io/#4fvjsj!0" rel="nofollow">http://roll.io/#4fvjsj!0</a><p>Thanks for making it. The only request I would have would be to automatically remove or recognise track listing numbers at the start of the tracks.<p>E.g. if I copy a track listing I often have: 1. SongA 2. SongB 3. SongC 4. SongD<p>- It is a slight pain to manually remove the 1., 2., 3., 4. from the front and may cause incorrect matching on the songs if I leave them on.
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johnrob将近 14 年前
Mobile version please!!! (for my flash enabled android phone)<p>For some reason the page is very slow to interact with and type on while using my Motorola Atrix (supposedly a fast device). Ideally, the home page would have just a textarea and no video playing by default.
follower将近 14 年前
A different approach for YouTube playlists I was introduced to recently: <a href="http://www.youtify.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtify.com/</a><p>More useful for building playlists on the fly rather than having a prepared list of songs as roll.io does.
rsbrown将近 14 年前
Feature request: show the current playlist entry in the page title. I have your site running in a background tab and I want to quickly glance up and see the song name without switching tabs.
vld将近 14 年前
Right, interesting. Some problems tho: <i>removed as requested</i>
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pclark将近 14 年前
This is a great idea and your elevator pitch on hacker news is brilliant, except you should have said "text" rather than txt.<p>I assumed you meant you took a .txt file of text and extracted any and all videos from it.<p>"Show HN: roll.io eats text and shits relevant youtube videos. Useful?"<p>The proposition is so obvious you should just spell it out on your home page, like, have a text box with some pre-populated text and a big arrow that says "becomes" and then a playlist of youtube videos.
swaraj将近 14 年前
Holy shit, this is amazing. I'm really into electronic music, and when I am listening to new music online (youtube, music blogs, etc.) I don't always take the time to download songs right then. Instead, I simply record the artist and title in a txt file. I uploaded my electro.txt file to roll.io and out came a perfect playlist for all the music (~500 songs) I liked, but haven't downloaded.<p>This is awesome
retube将近 14 年前
Apart from (annoyingly and without warning) playing the best matching track to your query/text line, how is this different from youtube search?
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hbz将近 14 年前
I think it's useful and very well made. Nice job!
krig将近 14 年前
A similar idea to the linked text file (not to roll.io itself) is <a href="http://www.tuneset.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tuneset.com/</a> (disclosure: made by a friend of mine).<p>roll.io is awesome though. Just making and sharing lists of talks broken up in several videos, things like this.. I wanted this exact thing just yesterday without knowing it.
rsbrown将近 14 年前
Huh. That was one of the quickest "how fuckin' stupid" =&#62; "how fuckin' brilliant" turnarounds my brain has experienced.<p>Nice work.
jannes将近 14 年前
Very useful. I always wished for something like this.<p>I was a little disappointed to see that it didn't work on the iPad, though. The page just tells me (in grey text on a black background btw) that the flash player is needed, although embedded YouTube videos usually work without the need for flash on this thing.
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tnajdek将近 14 年前
I love how simple yet functional it is. If I can suggest just a few minor things:<p>1. We have the 'hide video' options, can we please have 'hide list' option which makes video bigger?<p>2. Can we have the 'always select best quality' switch?<p>With these features roll.io would make it to my favorite music players list.
tobylane将近 14 年前
It's most useful if a) Always (settable option?) HD videos, b) uses less cpu time/battery/memory than playing the video (when hiding the video) c) youtube playlists.<p>Mostly b. Even on an imac youtube can take 10% of cpu I'd rather be used for something else, like a lagging game.
ses将近 14 年前
I wasn't sure about this when I read your tag line here but I have to say that is pretty nifty. I think its the sheer simplicity that makes it a pleasure to use, typing a bunch of song titles seems to actually be quite a natural way to get a playlist together.
kri5将近 14 年前
Great idea and very promising application. I've exported my favourite tracks via foobar2000 and last.fm statistics via softplaylist plugin (it creates XPSF playlist) et voila! my videoplaylist was created en instant.
marcocampos将近 14 年前
This is great. Congrats! For me the killer feature is Grooveshark support :)
resdirector将近 14 年前
Request:<p>Ability to enter in wikipedia track listing URL, e.g.: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track_listing" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin_Bob_Dylan#Track...</a>
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bochi将近 14 年前
Really nice idea. I have created something similar but I try to create a playlist for those who have last.fm accounts: <a href="http://lastvj.appspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://lastvj.appspot.com</a>
mrcharles将近 14 年前
This is a great idea, and amazing for previewing new albums! However, sometimes when it fails to search and substitutes, it would be nice to be able to hand edit the playlist.
sokolski将近 14 年前
Nice. Doesn't youtube api have limits on number of requests?
ChrisArchitect将近 14 年前
used this last night on a whim to paste in the contents of a tracklist from a radio show. Great way to flip through some of the tracks the djs played without having the actual show recording on hand. Handy for those into electronic/dance stuff where there's lots of livesets and tracklists floating around. I'd say it was 80% accurate in picking up the right track from youtube. Amazing how much stuff is on youtube of course.
kraymer将近 14 年前
I fed it with my lastfm charts, good job.<p>Empty lines are currently displayed and link to a random video. A quick improvement would be to just skip these empty lines.
minikomi将近 14 年前
Wow.. Did something similar for mp3s and markdown while back... <a href="http://texttape.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http://texttape.heroku.com</a>
kdeberk将近 14 年前
Finally! A good replacement for radioblogclub. I was so unhappy when they took that down since it was my main source for discovering good artists.
johnrob将近 14 年前
Excellent. I hope this doesn't go the way of atdhe.net. They built the equivalent of this, but for live sports video instead of music.
chetan51将近 14 年前
Suggestion: Have the option to switch the embedded YouTube player to an embedded Grooveshark widget for higher-quality audio.
cjstewart88将近 14 年前
I had a feature similar to this on www.tubalr.com, you could type in several bands and given a playlist.
kolinko将近 14 年前
Wow, brilliant.<p>I'd love to read about the technology behind. It works well even on names I typed in in Polish.
spydertennis将近 14 年前
You should let people save playlists to a custom url. roll.io/bestplaylistever
jvoorhis将近 14 年前
Quick, someone write a bookmarklet that posts tracklists from discogs
BonoboBoner将近 14 年前
Awesome idea. Drap and drop upload oft txt files would be nice.
noodle将近 14 年前
i'd like to see a list of most common songs. which is probably not simple to do per se, based on how this probably works, but i think it'd be neat to see, at least
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zem将近 14 年前
not what i was expecting (i thought it'd be some sort of programmatic generation of presentations that were then converted to video) but a very neat idea indeed.
peterwwillis将近 14 年前
I have been using this all afternoon. Thank you.
firatdemirel将近 14 年前
it works &#38; sounds great. but i'd like to close video part completely. also a browser extension could be nice for it.
zem将近 14 年前
feature request: allow me to append to a playlist without resetting
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edshadi将近 14 年前
LOVE it...I would completely use it and I got it from the first look!
schizophrenia将近 14 年前
very clear and good idea, congrats guys
pyUser将近 14 年前
simple and great idea! vote up it is.
mayk将近 14 年前
it's very useful. good luck...
csertoglu将近 14 年前
firehose of a firehose. i like it. one day, there will be some semantic sense made out of this.
c4urself将近 14 年前
much better than youtube, clear and to the point, simple. great job!
noob007将近 14 年前
just thought of something else. It would be quite cool if we could direct roll.io to play files via url parameter. Say we want to play 3 songs. We could type something like this in a forum:<p><a href="http://roll.io/song1title-song2title-song3title" rel="nofollow">http://roll.io/song1title-song2title-song3title</a><p>With '-' as delimiter or some other char/word
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matthewcieplak将近 14 年前
Interesting. Seems like a less flashy version of instant.fm: <a href="http://instant.fm/p/90" rel="nofollow">http://instant.fm/p/90</a>
noob007将近 14 年前
very nice idea! would be nice if we could type out playlist in textboxes and then open them via roll.io so that those boxes are easy to emded in forums when someone wants to list out a few viddys without going to youtube to expressedly look &#38; link for them.
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instakill将近 14 年前
Voted up if only for the title.