ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to someone you like

This is probably the first Parse javascript app in the wild! Cool stuff guys.

It’s pretty buggy on Firefox. When I first loaded the site, it kept trying to search for something even though the search box was empty. Then I reloaded the page and compiled and saved a mix tape (<a href="http://flirttape.com/JRhANofRX9" rel="nofollow">http://flirttape.com/JRhANofRX9</a>). But I couldn’t play any of the tracks with the player – no sound came out when playing, and clicking Next did nothing. Also, the Pause button that is the alternate of the Play button had its round button borders smaller than the pause symbol.

Reminds me of the first iteration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape</a>

I made a tape and sent it to my wife right away, with a bunch of music that means a lot to us. It was a fantastic way to relive a lot of memories in a few minutes.<p>Great idea, love it.

With a name like flirttape, how are you supposed to pretend you're just being casual?

Not sure where else to report issues. I was able to search for songs, add them to a mixtape and share it via email. I wasn't able to play any songs though. After pressing play, it would send a request to the youtube API and receive a successful response (200 OK), but just sit there and not play anything. Each time I press next, the same thing would happen - a successful request then nothing.

This is fantastic. Mixtapes use to be such a great form of self-expression. Thanks for making a tool to bring them back!

Interesting.<p>How are you playing the YouTube track in there?

Pretty cool. I made something similar (a site that played any song via YouTube) last year at a hackathon but I failed to think of such a creative idea, props.

Just a heads up that this link is broken on getblimp.com: <a href="http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/</a>

Where are you getting the song data (title / artist name) from? If it isn't scraped from YouTube, how do you match up the search results with YouTube videos?<p>Good work!<p>P.S. When viewing source (on Chrome, OS X) it shows the .search and .mixtape divs as blank! Is there a reason for this?

This seems pretty cool but I think you might have been banned...the player won't play. Which basically inevitably happens to every app I've seen that grabs songs off YouTube and repurposes it. The one that most sticks out to me is the old Songza.

When I loaded the page it was mostly blank. As soon as I Zoomed out the browser, the page loaded properly.<p>Might have been a browser issue. Chrome 19.0.1084.54 on Lion.

This site is pretty much broken on Mobile Safari. The top banner in purple is cut off on the right and I have no way of scrolling over. :(

Am I the only one for whom this never worked? It didn't work 6 hours ago and it's not working now. Still Hacker News'd or just me?

Where do you get the audio data from?

nice idea!<p>but be prepared for lawyers ... these guys send ugly letters with long numbers :/

In opera with 120% zoom, purple bar partly covers edit box.<p>Ah, also search doesn't work. :)

Very cool, every think about using Grooveshark players for this?

Search doesn't work; It just spins indefinitely.

Doesn't seem to be working in Safari.

Very cool

i wish it weren't called flirttape so I could send it to friends! also, i'm using IE (at work..) and it keeps throwing me errors

None of the songs are available (Here is a screenshot after I made the player visible: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg</a> )<p>You guys may have been banned... looks like YouTube doesn't like to have its player hidden.

startup in puerto rico? wow nice