tubeplates / tubeplates

TubePlates is an app to listen to releases listed on Discogs easily using YouTube

TubePlates

http://tubeplates.github.io

Description

TubePlates is an app to listen to releases listed on Discogs easily using YouTube

This is how it works:

1. You use the app to find releases you like (by artist,label or name).
2. Each time a playback is requested for a track, the app searches YouTube for it, tries to choose the best result and play it in your browser. If the track isn't found it is skipped and and playback for the next track in the playlist/release is requested.

Points to consider

• The YouTube results are estimated and therefore not perfect; don't expect them to be correct at all times.
• It doesn't work on default browsers on mobile OSes(iOS,Android) due to restrictions in their video players but it does seem to work on the Puffin browser which has a free version.

Building

First you need the following dependencies:

• Grunt
• Bower
• CoffeeScript
• Compass

Then you need to run the following commands inside the project:

bower install
npm install
grunt build

built files then appear under the dist directory

tubeplates's Issues

Save Playlist data between sessions

Possibly using localStorage

Exporting/Importing of playlists

Maybe export the data stored in the playlist as JSON and export it to a text file?
Then allow importing the text file into the player at a later time.

Unit and e2e tests

Unit test services and controllers. Also end to end testing.
Possibly using karma?

Update YouTube Search API to v3

YT playlist creation

It would be very cool if the playlists can be saved to youtube. Maybe add which releases are saved automatically to the playlist description?

Solution to playback on Android and iOS

Right now the app doesn't work when using a browser on Android or iOS. This is because of restrictions made in most mobile web browsers: they don't allow automated control of the video player and playback is only available in fullscreen.

One way to solve this problem could be to write a Phonegap wrapper that allows automatic control of the video player and non-fullscreen video playback on mobile systems that could then be compiled and used like a native app on iOS and Android.

Ideal would be that it would be a grunt job that could be run like any other that would create the Phonegap project so you could run something like grunt build-phonegap and then a phonegap project would be created in a directory, ready for compilation.