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Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.

Shown by cjstewart88 on Oct 23, 2011. Click the card to turn it over.

98points

79comments

#111of 1,097 in 2011

Top 11%of 2011 by points

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23 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 4 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.

Idea: 9 for, 0 againstDesign: 7 for, 1 againstExecution: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

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Duplicate songs repeat in playlists
From 2 comments
- 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…
  joshmlewis on HN
- very nice, simple and sleek design. I really like it. the only downside i see which i noticed other people mentioning as well is when i search for let's say "Coldplay" the first…
  _ud4a on HN
Unrelated videos appear in search results
From 2 comments
- Great! Pandora(-ish) for the rest of us. 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…
  subb on HN
- 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.…
  artursapek on HN
Embedding-disabled videos fail to play
From 1 comment
- 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. One thing and I dont' know if…
  canadiancreed on HN

Keyboard controls for next and previous
From 1 comment
- Nice! Mapping the right and left arrow keys to prev/next would be a small but very useful addition.
  ramanujam on HN
Search suggestions or autocomplete
From 2 comments
- I might could throw in suggestions as your typing your search, so if you started typing "Band of Horses" it would hit last.fm and pull back a handful of their song titles and…
  cjstewart88 on HN
- 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…
  mariust on HN
Shareable artist URLs
From 1 comment
- Can you make it so that I can send my friends a URL of the Artist i have chosen on Tubalr
  johnnyjustice on HN
Filter covers and live versions
From 1 comment
- No problem. Do you have any way to weed out covers and other possibilities? I haven't seen any come up but just curious how you implemented it or if it is even a problem at all.
  joshmlewis on HN

How is the similar-artist feature built?
From 1 comment
- Pretty cool and simple. How do you get the "similiar Artist" feature? Also, that is a pretty great font for your logo. For anyone else interested he uses "Pacifico":…
  kittxkat on HN
How will the project make money?
From 1 comment
- very nice, simple and sleek design. I really like it. the only downside i see which i noticed other people mentioning as well is when i search for let's say "Coldplay" the first…
  _ud4a on HN

Songza
From 1 comment
- 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. Interestingly, they…
  jaredsohn on HN
AOL Radio single-artist stations
From 1 comment
- 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…
  city41 on HN
fermademuzica.ro
From 1 comment
- another similar site is http://fermademuzica.ro/ (.ro only) that has playlist, thumbnails, similar artists, top songs
  tbdr on HN