Introducing the Musictube app
In the middle of summer an idea came to my mind and I quickly noted it in my GMail tasks. Weeks later, when back in Rome, without thinking too much about it, I started working on it in my usual code-as-theres-no-tomorrow style.
Here’s the idea: YouTube is full of music videos. I have coded a YouTube player. I have coded a music player. These things converge. And the place where they meet is a kind of YouTube player specialized in music. Or a music player that streams music from YouTube.
I’m really proud to introduce you to Musictube. Musictube lets you listen to music on YouTube in a much more convenient way. Musictube integrates album covers, artist pictures and lyrics. Musictube also features a “Live” mode for listening to live performances only, and a “Cover” mode that plays covers and remixes of the original song. There are many other details to talk about, but since this is a one-of-a-kind app, you’re better downloading it and see for yourself.
Musictube is available for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu. Get it.
Translate it!
I automatically imported some translated strings from my other apps into Transifex. If you care, you can finish the translation for your native language here.
A note to Linux users
Musictube is not Free Software. The Ubuntu package is for sale just like for the other platforms. Other Linux distros are just left out in the cold for now. Please don’t bash me for this: not everything can be GPLed. Bear with me as I experiment with various business models. By supporting Musictube you indirectly support my other GPLed projects: they share large amounts of code and many enhancements can flow from Musictube to Minitube and Minitunes.
Awesome news Flavio! Great to see that you are rocking another great application. I am gonna try it asap. About your decision for the release and the business model you follow everyone is free to build its business model and user base as he wish No reason to apologize about it. Linux=freedom anyway.
Looks good and I would be willing to pay (as a linux user) however I have one issue, I use multiple Linux and a windows machine, do I buy one licence to use on all or do i have to get a licence for each one?
how did you manage to get around google on this? they kinda get narky when you take ad revenue off them
In theory Windows and Ubuntu are different items. In practice buy one and then send me an email, I’ll send you the other for free.
For the Google thing, I think it’s the same reason they don’t go after youtube-dl and the other YouTube apps. These apps, including Musictube, are niche, incredibly niche apps. They add more value to YouTube then they remove. Advanced YouTube users are happy to experience YouTube in different and customized ways. This adds value for video publishers. The masses never actually ear about these apps. So I think Google and everyone else is happy.
Brilliant, I did have a think and ill get it for the HTPC and Netbook (both Linux), having just started using musique and minitube I can now see how well they run on Atom machines.
Brilliant work, will be happy to buy when I’ve the cash
Wonderful app, are you planning a mobile app (iOS and android)?
I am no great fan of the GPL, but I would appreciate the source code to hack on caching and fixing whatever bugs I might encounter, if any. Local copies of music I listen to (for sharing and offline playback) happens to be a must with bandwidth being quite expensive in my country. Also, porting to other operating systems. Or is the source code embedded in the deb?
Please allow us to at least distribute patches!
With thanks in advance,
Bjartur
Going to find out how good is the app.