CloudTunes
Productivity
music streaming web app
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
16 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 8 for, 2 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, beautiful UI design
From 2 comments
Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it. I…
squeaky-clean on HNI didn't see any mobile screenshots, or much code that seemed responsive, so I assumed it wasn't mobile friendly and wanted to try fixing that. And the comments below about it…
squeaky-clean on HN
Interesting idea for personal music streaming
From 2 comments
With Dropbox upping their quotas I was literally thinking about this two days ago! I look forward to checking this out. Going to take me quite a while to finish uploading my…
wj on HNI've always thought it might be interesting to have apps like this that run locally on web technologies. Is there hope for this model? One obviously shortcoming as exemplified…
pbreit on HN
Objections
Relies on Flash for YouTube playback
From 1 comment
disappointed. Single-page app relies on flash technology.
poncytwit on HN
Not mobile responsive
From 2 comments
Really cool idea. Who hasn't thought of doing this before? Congrats on actually making it, and making it look beautiful. Already forked it, can't wait to start playing with it. I…
squeaky-clean on HNThanks! I'm pretty sure though that I'm not the first one nor the last one to have ever thought of that :D The design is fluid but not really responsive. What I've been playing…
jkbr on HN
Requests
Support for playing local server music
From 2 comments
What about music stored on the server on which CloudTunes is running? Can it play that?
spindritf on HNThat currently is not possible, but wouldn't be very difficult to implement as I had it in mind from the beginning. Inspiration could be the Dropbox integration: Client-side…
jkbr on HN
Support for S3 storage
From 2 comments
Could this support playing music from S3 and storing/reading metadata as S3 headers? I currently store about 200GB of music in Amazon Cloudplayer, which has recently gone…
toomuchtodo on HNStoring/reading from S3 would be great. I'm also interested in the answer for this.
alfg on HN
Support for Google Drive and OneDrive
From 1 comment
What about OneDrive and Google Drive support?
Koldark on HN
Support for MPD
From 1 comment
Would be great to have this interface for MPD!
zz1 on HN
Questions
What is the use case?
From 1 comment
sorry but what's the use case for this?
tuananh on HN
Does it handle YouTube advertising?
From 1 comment
How does this handle YouTube's advertising?
hrrsn on HN
Alternatives named
Subsonic
From 2 comments
It's probably easier to use Subsonic for that, it's build for dealing with local files. [0] http://www.subsonic.org/
dewey on HNYou can run Subsonic on your own server or a VPS.
dublinben on HN
Tomahawk
From 1 comment
Congrats on the design, but it's sad to see that once again, the wheel has been reinvented: there once was playdar [0], the content resolver that clearly separated the data that…
rakoo on HN
Ampache
From 1 comment
I've been running Ampache[0] for a while and been very pleased with it. It's on an old PC and I never have any issue when streaming from my workplace.…
Kaivo on HN
CloudPlay
From 1 comment
CloudPlay is a similar app for Mac. It has pretty good shortcut integration. http://cloudplay.fm/
sinemetu11 on HN