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Show HN: Create musical chords out of YouTube videos

45 points by yoodit 12y ago

yoodit 12y ago
Hi HN, A while back I posted this link as a proof of concept. It was well received. So here is an seriously updated version built upon the input I got. Thanks for taking the time to look.
jumpcut 12y ago
This is awesome! It worked perfectly for the song I tested it with.
mrxd 12y ago
Very nice. In testing this, I found some songs where a chord change happens very soon after the autoscroll moves forward to the next page. You don't have enough to time to read the next chord and make the change. Without being able to see ahead of the current song position at all times, its not quite functional. Chordify does it differently: http://chordify.net/chords/family-of-the-year-hey-ma-loma-vista-nettwerk-music-group http://chordify.net/chords/family-of-the-year-hey-ma-loma-vi...
- yoodit 12y ago
  Hi, thanks for the comment. Chordify indeed does it differently. The difference is the presentation of time, whether time is linear (YouTab) or non-linear (Chordify). Since YouTab is also an editor where you can fix notation linear layout it used. I am aware of this issue and will fix this soon.
larrydag 12y ago
Very cool and something that I could definitely use.
cubancigar11 12y ago
Awesome!!!
brunorsini 12y ago
Impressed! Seen many of these in the past that are too inaccurate to be useful, tested this with a couple of my own songs and the results were great - down to being able to detect quick E / Emaj7 / E changes. Congrats :)
kennywinker 12y ago
So impressed by this right now! About to tell everyone I know who plays music.
freedrull 12y ago
Haven't tried this one yet, but I've used theorytab before. Wish it had more songs. http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab
taivare 12y ago
I put song in .. it didn't work ?
- yoodit 12y ago
  Hi, what song? Can you say what happened exactly?
agersant 12y ago
This crashes Firefox 35.0.1 on Windows 8.1 when looking at the tab for Token of Time by Ensiferum. Other songs work fine though (tried two others), there seems to be something wrong with that specific one.
- yoodit 12y ago
  Hi, can you please share the URL? If you disable hardware acceleration on FF it will work, but I would like to investigate why that particular song crashes FF. Thanks.
  - agersant 12y ago
    https://www.youtab.me/music/v3vrVNXxRHv/ensiferum/token-of-time https://www.youtab.me/music/v3vrVNXxRHv/ensiferum/token-of-t...
- spyder 12y ago
  Crashes for me too, for example on this page too: https://www.youtab.me/music/zWSgCcy_Q_8/acdc/rock-or-bust https://www.youtab.me/music/zWSgCcy_Q_8/acdc/rock-or-bust Looks like it happens right after the YouTube player is loaded.
yoodit 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

45 points by yoodit 12y ago

Hi HN, A while back I posted this link as a proof of concept. It was well received. So here is an seriously updated version built upon the input I got. Thanks for taking the time to look.

jumpcut 12y ago

This is awesome! It worked perfectly for the song I tested it with.

mrxd 12y ago

Very nice. In testing this, I found some songs where a chord change happens very soon after the autoscroll moves forward to the next page. You don't have enough to time to read the next chord and make the change. Without being able to see ahead of the current song position at all times, its not quite functional. Chordify does it differently: http://chordify.net/chords/family-of-the-year-hey-ma-loma-vista-nettwerk-music-group http://chordify.net/chords/family-of-the-year-hey-ma-loma-vi...

yoodit 12y ago
Hi, thanks for the comment. Chordify indeed does it differently. The difference is the presentation of time, whether time is linear (YouTab) or non-linear (Chordify). Since YouTab is also an editor where you can fix notation linear layout it used. I am aware of this issue and will fix this soon.

larrydag 12y ago

Very cool and something that I could definitely use.

cubancigar11 12y ago

Awesome!!!

brunorsini 12y ago

Impressed! Seen many of these in the past that are too inaccurate to be useful, tested this with a couple of my own songs and the results were great - down to being able to detect quick E / Emaj7 / E changes. Congrats :)

kennywinker 12y ago

So impressed by this right now! About to tell everyone I know who plays music.

freedrull 12y ago

Haven't tried this one yet, but I've used theorytab before. Wish it had more songs. http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab

taivare 12y ago

I put song in .. it didn't work ?

yoodit 12y ago
Hi, what song? Can you say what happened exactly?

agersant 12y ago

This crashes Firefox 35.0.1 on Windows 8.1 when looking at the tab for Token of Time by Ensiferum. Other songs work fine though (tried two others), there seems to be something wrong with that specific one.

yoodit 12y ago
Hi, can you please share the URL? If you disable hardware acceleration on FF it will work, but I would like to investigate why that particular song crashes FF. Thanks.
- agersant 12y ago
  https://www.youtab.me/music/v3vrVNXxRHv/ensiferum/token-of-time https://www.youtab.me/music/v3vrVNXxRHv/ensiferum/token-of-t...
spyder 12y ago
Crashes for me too, for example on this page too: https://www.youtab.me/music/zWSgCcy_Q_8/acdc/rock-or-bust https://www.youtab.me/music/zWSgCcy_Q_8/acdc/rock-or-bust Looks like it happens right after the YouTube player is loaded.

yoodit 12y ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone.