This week I created this website: http://www.tubeshine.com It allows you to create YouTube playlists for sharing, or adding to your website. Sometimes people who upload videos to YouTube don't add them to playlists and it's really annoying if you want to share some videos with someone. It becomes a huge pain in the butt to direct them to the series of videos you want them to see. So, I created this website which allows you to create a playlist from one channel or even multiple channels. No registration is required, no email is needed, no nothing. Just enter the URL's you want to make a playlist from and it will give you a playlist URL. Please tell me what you think.
Whilst it's a nice idea, I don't see why people would use your site rather than YouTube itself. I don't particularly like the design as it doesn't say anything about what you do. You should make the logo bigger and more relevant. I think you should add something on the homepage about why you'd want to create a playlist, rather than just what you can do with it. Possibly even include a quick line about what a playlist is.
Yeah, most people would just use YouTube. It's not an improvement over YouTube functionality. But as I said, some people just wont add their videos to playlists. It's annoying. ie: I often search for a documentary on YouTube, I find Part 4 first, and then it's a mission to find the other parts (especially in one spot). Then when I want to send someone else to that documentary (which I often do), the situation gets even worse. The whole reason I created this site is for myself really. So I can just compile playlists which may be from different channels, and then send that playlist to someone with one simple URL for them to open. Also it is useful to make a list of your favorite songs to send to someone I think. I can't see the site becoming the biggest hit on the Internet, but I think it has it's use -- which is why I made it. Plus, it is useful for adding documentaries to your website, which open in a player format - which YouTube doesn't do.
That makes more sense to me now - adding 4 parts of a show to a playlist, for example. I was thinking more of a playlist for people to add all of their certain types of videos, etc - like they would do on their channel. Thanks for clearing that up .
cant u create ur own playlist at youtube with others videos and then share it like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxdqe0KTGTo&feature=PlayList&p=AE53B1475D85D0C3&index=0&playnext=1 it also has the advantage of full screen functionality, and more detailed description of what is it in the playlist.
I like the concept behind the site, I think it's a great idea, the site looks good maybe it would look more attractive if you added a graphic to it.
There is the advantagte with the new JW media player that it allows only 1 youtube video to be played with their player.
Yes you can create playlists, but the trippas that add multi-part videos never ADD them to playlists. As I explained above, it becomes a mission to find the rest of the videos. I can almost bare that - but then when I want to direct someone else to the videos, it becomes mission impossible 3.5. So I created this site so I can add videos and then pass what I want someone to see with a single URL. Plus, youtube doesn't have functionality to open a movie player type setup from your own website. So the main reason for this site is twofold. 1). Ability to create playlists from "any" youtube channel, even if it's more than one 2). The ability to add a link to the player on a website. I am going to use this to display heaps of documentaries etc from my many webistes. Lastly, it is very easy to create a playlist on this site. You don't even have to have an account or type in titles or anything. Jest enter the URL's you want and you're done. I can see in my tracking that no one has looked past the first page yet. So if you would like to give a review, please try to understand what the site does and how easy it is to create the playlist. Then I can see what your proper opinion is.
I understand most of what you are saying, but I am still not clear as to what is wrong with using youtube playlist future. To create playlist on your site, I would still need to find the videos url, which u have labeled as mission impossible 3.5. Youtube also gives the option to embed the playlist onto a website. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/AE53B1475D85D0C3"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/AE53B1475D85D0C3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> HTML: can u clarify why as default it is suggested to use url http://www.tubeshine.com/share.php?v=fdtvrp0w72ksbg1ycj4q as the share link, instead of http://www.tubeshine.com/display.php?v=fdtvrp0w72ksbg1ycj4q
Ok, for the most part I agree. If people want to display a video on their website, they can simply use the YouTube embed code. I even do that myself. However, have you ever loaded a web page that has like 12 YouTube videos on it? Myspace pages are bad for that. You load the page and your computer starts revving its guts out trying to download 12 videos at once. So it is better to have a list of the videos you want to display, and then have them numbered so that you can simply view them in order. Additionally, "getting" the videos is still mission impossible 3.5 but once you've compiled them they become very easy to share. I personally know quite a few people that aren't too good with computers and sometimes I want to show them a YouTube documentary. But trying to get the URL's to them and explaining how to click to the next one becomes a chore. Now I can just send them one URL and say: Open that! Also, I have a LOT of websites, and I want to display certain YouTube videos from each website. I want to be able to show a documentary, or even several documentaries from my website(s) without having to build pages and paste in embed codes and FTP new pages and files to my server, etc. It's all too much grief. Ther's no way around having to get all the URL's that you want to display. That's always going to be mission impossible 3.5 - but once you've created the list, you can easily dd the player to websites, forums, MySpace, send them via email and it's all set out in an easy to follow format. I have done my utmost best to make creating the playlist(s) as pain free as possible. No registration is required, no emails, no typing titles or descriptions. TubeShine extracts the video tites automatically. All yu have to do is paste in the URL's and you're done. It couldn't possibly be easier. That was one of my main goals. One last thing, a lot of people like to share their favorite songs. If you want, you can get all the URL's for all your songs and add them to TubeShine. The n on your website, instead of having to use embed code and create new pages to hold them, etc, you can simply have links: Song 1 (will have ?p=1 in the url) Song 2 (will have ?p=2 in the url) Song 3 (will have ?p=3 in the url) etc.. That way you can open the player to a specific song if you want, and then you can use that code over and over on different pages. There are a lot of benefits to being able to create a 3rd party playlist, because creating playlists on YouTube 1). Requires you to have an account, 2). Doesn't allow you to load them into a simple to follow player. EDIT: Oh and you don't have to use that "share URL" like you linked above. You can use the JavaScript provided and launch the player directly from your website. That is the main benefit.
Please keep asking questions people. I have decided (just now) to create a FAQ on TubeShine which answers these questions. I like people to have a full understanding of what the site does and how it can be useful.
From what I have seen, youtube embeded videos dont support autoplay. So you would need to click the play icon to start the video to be downloaded. It also has the icon so you can see the playlist within the player, to play a different file, or you can click the icon on the player to play the next video while you are watching ur current video. Otherwise, once your current video is done playing, it automatically starts to play the second video, so you don't have to click on a link after each video is done playing. I think its quite easy to just give them: http://www.youtube.com/p/AE53B1475D85D0C3 and you dont need to worry about having them know where is the next button. your website has the advantage that you can copy and paste the url to generator the url. The youtube method has the advantage that if you want to add a new video to previous playlist, you can. Since your will be without any registerian, those guests users won't have most control in the future over the playlist. But if they want to make a quick playlist, and don't mind clicking a link to go between videos, then there is some use for this site. Use the following code for your player, it seems to have fullscreen functionality <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NP02J5ebEvc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NP02J5ebEvc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> HTML: As for the share link, I was just asking why you recommend to the user to share the url: http://www.tubeshine.com/share.php?v=fdtvrp0w72ksbg1ycj4q instead of: http://www.tubeshine.com/display.php?v=fdtvrp0w72ksbg1ycj4q
okies I have added the fullscreen capability. Also, I have already set the video to autoplay. All you have to do is add &autoplay=1 to the embed url. I am currently trying to figure out how to make the playlist move to the next video as soon as the first video is complete. It may or may not be possible, but I am looking into it. If there's a will - there's a way!
U need to use JW player version 3. Atleast that would be my solution. There is some youtube playing issue with neweest version, but the older version works fine.
Yeah ok, I'll delete my website and give the domain away to charity or something. I need to use JW player version 3. As a matter of fact, maybe I should stop making websites all together? Even better still, how about the whole internet stop creating new websites and innovating -- and we'll all just go back to pinging each other through DOS for something to do? You can stop replying in this thread now.
I was just giving you a solution to your problem... and so far I have only tried to show what is already being done, and you would probably want to take that into consideration while working on your site. In my view, if you better understand your competition then you can create something new that is not already being done. I just wish that you would spend your time doing something new or a more useful tool for the current problem. If you want an example of site that is least needed, that my site would be one of them: http://mymegavideo.com There is not much need for a site that categorizes animes by title, but I know the bad parts of it, hence I can plan something new to make it more useful.
Well a solution to NOT make my site is just ridiculous. I am making the site, it's only new and I will keep making improvements until it is better. I have just about figured out how to make the playlist move on to the next video all by itself. If your advice is to tell me to stop making my site then I don't need that advice. I am making the site, I am going to keep improving it - and that's that.
Can u please quote me where u interpreted me to say that you should not make your site? My advice was to the flash player available on http://www.jeroenwijering.com/ instead of the youtube player. You can still use Youtube links, I was just suggesting a different player because it has the playlist functionality in it and will go from one video to another.