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Tubeify: A ‘Historic’ Mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube

Increasingly, people have started using YouTube as an instant music player. Although the experience is okay for single tracks, it is hardly the music video jukebox most people would love to see. This is where Tubeify comes in, a brand new mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and Youtube, suited for both casual listeners and musical time travellers.

tubeifyTubeify (invites below) is a new mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube. The site allows users to search for, discover, play and queue video clips in any web browser.

The advanced search capabilities and outstanding usability makes it without a doubt one of the best YouTube jukeboxes around. One of the true gems is the Billboard “timetravel” feature, allowing users to pull up the Billboard chart for any week since 1964 and listen to the tracks that were leading the charts then.

Tubeify is an idea from Tomas Isdal, a University of Washington PhD student who TorrentFreak readers may remember from BitTorrent related research projects such as OneSwarm and the DMCA printer study. However, Tubeify is not a research project, but one that aims to turn YouTube into a decent music player.

“I came up with the idea roughly a year ago when YouTube signed an agreement with Time Warner, which meant that they now have license agreements with the “Big 4″ labels,” Tomas Isdal told TorrentFreak. “At the same time I noticed that I increasingly used YouTube for music listening, but that the YouTube interface really wasn’t what I wanted.”

Isdal told us that, among other things, he was annoyed by several issues on YouTube including the fact that videos stop when you search for another song, that many duplicate clips appear in the search results, and that the playlist has poor functionality. The upside, however, is that YouTube has a huge archive of music with many (un)licensed tracks.

So, Isdal took up the challenge to come up with a better YouTube player, with help from Billboard and Last.fm.

Tubeify in action

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“In Tubeify I tried to make it feel more like a traditional desktop music player, think iTunes or Spotify, but still web-based so you can use it anywhere. Then I fixed the annoying parts of YouTube and added stuff that I always wanted in a music player,” he said. The result is a pretty useful mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube.

Tubeify’s searching is handled by the Last.fm api, and unlike on YouTube the current track will continue to play while searching. Search results are treated as “lazy playlists” which can be “pinned” to the sidebar for easy access later. Adding songs to playlists and the play queue is also pretty easy with full drag and drop support.

Another feature that beats most existing services is that it allows users to share playlists with friends. Playlist links can be shared anywhere – just paste the link on Twitter, Facebook or in an email and your friends will have instant access to it.

Time travel with Tubify

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Another great feature of Tubeify are the top charts that are included, and the ability to pull up charts from previous years, all the way back to 1964. This functionality is powered by Billboard’s API and allows users check out, and play, what was topping the charts decades ago.

Although Tubeify is obviously not the best music listening experience there is, it is one of the only music video Jukeboxes that lets you search for and play millions of tracks instantly. If anything, it beats using the traditional YouTube interface.

Tubeify was kind enough to exclusively share an unlimited amount of invites for TorrentFreak users, that will be handed out for as long as the server holds up. You can get your invite here (should arrive in a few minutes), no strings attached. No user account or password is needed either, but Tubeify does require a Facebook or Google account, to allow users to login securely.

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  • Powerbar

    Tubeify Or How to lose even more time on the internet while accomplishing absolutely nothing. The future is bright!!

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  • Copyleft-Records

    Sounds like fun. Maybe I’ll check it out tonight after I get home from work.

  • hotdog

    it’s worth a try i requested invite ;)

  • Trickargl

    Unexpected exception – a good start. :-/

  • hotdog

    Never received invite is there a waiting time or is it automatically sent? I checked my junk/spam filter folders too and nothing.

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  • Anonymous

    Works fine here , invite received in like 1 second.

  • Petteri

    Really big letdown is that you need Facebook or Google account to use this.

  • Anonymous

    Yea indeed, no point registering if you don’t have a Google or Facebook account, sweet.

  • Anonymous

    Unexpected exception when I log in as well… here’s hoping it’s not a ploy to steal google/facebook logins. :-/

  • Anonymous

    Grooveshark is where it is at

  • Anonymous

    If unexpected error, just click Okay and refresh – loads fine.

  • John Down

    This is brilliant! Got the unexpected error message but a simple page refresh sorted it. A very nice way to discover what others are listening to.

  • Just signed up

    looks great!

    But i wonder if this combi is allowed by google and or last.fm. But we’ll see if they try to destroy another great initiative. Long life Pirates!

    Aaaar!

  • Anonymous

    Facebook or Google account requirement is a total deal-breaker to even have a look at it.

  • isdal

    Some growth pains over here… the “unexpected error” is fixed now.

    If you get that error you can refresh the page and it will work.

  • hotdog

    Works i had to re-request invite then logged in through google but yeah received that unexpected error who cars works for me!!Just had to refresh.

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  • psychaos

    Tested it..quite nice actually.

  • AKB

    Most of the songs I get are crappy covers or remixes. =/

  • kn100

    I am rather impressed by this little service, works on portable devices too, FREE SPOTIFY PREMIUM xD

  • kn100

    Also I wish this was Free Software, then they couldn’t shut this down.

  • DuellistOrigins

    If you’re worried about facebook,gmail etc., use a fake one. I do it all the time.

  • ZellowFoam

    Great service, really like the easy interface and the lack of commercial breaks in the music. Perfect at work!

  • Truther

    Would rather have its own login than tie into facebook/google.

  • Anonymous

    Pleasantly surprised actually, really liked the feature that tells you what was top of the charts or popular at different months of the year, dating back to 1960′s! Interface could do with a bit of work though!

  • peter

    I will stay with Tuberadio.fm

  • zinc

    I will stay with Tuberadio.fm

  • Anonymous

    Requires a Facebook or Google account? And nobody found this suspect?
    Hopefully you all enjoy having your accounts stolen or whatnot.

  • Me

    Brilliant. The time machine is the best.

  • Sendaii

    Seems pretty good to me. And before the tin foil hat brigade really get into full swing, it works as a Facebook app, you don’t actually enter your Facebook email or password into Tubeify.

  • 6sixty6

    no facebash or gurgle account for me, thats fur sure.

  • “Raep in prison”

    @ 33

    “Raep in prison” WTF is that

    red curvy lines under word must mean GJ

    spell check if needed to be a tough guy and not a dildo

    FYI 3 red curvy lines

  • sell out

    Ernesto, paid news

  • random pirate

    @27 “Requires a Facebook or Google account? And nobody found this suspect?
    Hopefully you all enjoy having your accounts stolen or whatnot.”
    i used my FB account and it didn’t even ask for a password, so you’re wrong :) it’s a great service they just need to speed it up a bit and make an iPhone app. if appstore doesnt let you (it should, as it has youtube), go to cydia. hmm a legal music streamer with playlists and everything :) pretty nice.

  • Cool

    Nice app! Im not using facebook or gmail, so its not for me though.

  • Anonymous

    Tubeify won’t play anything for me…

  • Anonymous

    @34
    This seems to be a youtube/firefox bug that just appeared tonight for some users, I reported it to youtube.

    This workaround works:
    In firefox, select
    Tools->Clear recent history
    Click details and check
    * Cookies
    * Cache
    * Active Logins
    (you don’t need to clear the browsing history)

    Select Time range: everything
    press “clear now”
    and is will work again :-)

  • serglenisin

    ???? ??????!

  • Anonymous

    Tubeify does require a Facebook or Google account, to allow users to login securely.

    Both Spybook & Gooooogle are funded by the cia. This is documented proof and can be backed up with factual evidence.

  • Anonymous

    Wow!

    I’ve been looking for something like this. Thank for a great service!

    Sometimes you get a strange version of the song, but most of the time it’s pretty awsome!

    Cool!

  • Anonymous

    Wow!

    I’ve been looking for something like this. Thank for a great service!

    Sometimes you get a strange version of the song, but most of the time it’s pretty awesome!

    Cool!

  • Singleton

    It works like a charm,
    Actually I prefer this login method before any more stupid account creations, safe and easy.

    Really like the TimeTravel and simple drag’n drop playlist creation, nice job!

  • Boba Fett

    Good stuff!

    Thanks for the info, TF.

  • Whatever

    In NL he would need to start paying the BUMA for “making available”.

    In UK playlists are copyrighted and get those lawyers of MoS after him.

    And anything published on TF is taken down.

    Wonder how long it lasts….

  • Nemanja

    There is a similar service that doesn’t require registration.

    It is called Shufflable.com

    I think it is released few days ago and it combines YouTube and Last.Fm as well.

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  • Anonymous

    Love it!

    Thx TF! :-)

  • cyko_01

    invite worked for me. received it right away

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  • Anonymous

    Increasingly, AMERICANS have started using YouTube as an instant music player. Because in about all other countries, half the content is blocked. YouTube can go choke on a dick.

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    well sorry I am not gonna bother with it if I need to use accounts…

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    Seen this, http://www.spotmyvideo.com
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    No Invites needed.

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