Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing

skeptrune | 122 points

Cool project! I have never been very satisfied with the existing services for collaborating on playlists.

I think the experience could be improved if you branched beyond YouTube for the media. I search "jim-e stack" and see multiple non-song videos (in fact 3/4 are not songs). One idea might be to use a service like https://odesli.co (formerly song.link) to filter to real music tracks people are familiar with on their streaming platforms. Their API returns links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc for a given music entity (e.g. song, album). Furthermore, integrating with Odesli would offer a path towards allowing users to drop Spotify / Apple Music URLs directly from their respective apps into the jukebox, which I think would be my ideal experience.

My $0.02. Thanks for sharing!

andelink | 22 days ago

Love it!

I made an open source jukebox too. Mine models an old-school jukebox, where you set up a tablet so all your friends can browse and queue up music at a party.

https://github.com/nzoschke/jukelab https://nzoschke.github.io/jukelab/spotify/desktop

I see you're in the Bay Area. I do occasional Jukebox Happy Hour in SoMa we could meet up at...

nzoschke | 22 days ago

Very cool. It's like a much more minimal (and more open source) version of one of my favorite sites https://deepcut.live (formerly turntable.fm)

itslennysfault | 22 days ago

One thing I think is interesting is that many people value fairness, but people also have very different ideas of what is fair.

For example, I think quite a lot of people think first-come-first-served is fair, and jumping the queue is unfair. But that doesn't seem to be the notion of fairness employed here.

jp57 | 22 days ago

There's another "Jukebox" [1] that's been doing apparently the same thing for many years, in there a connection there, or just the same name (and function)?

[1] https://jukebox.today/

Unai | 22 days ago

Oh, this is perfect. I still miss the epicpower group from Grooveshark, and it’s been nearly a decade since that shut down.

https://www.jukeboxhq.com/share/epicpower

Aeolun | 22 days ago

This is great. One little thing, after the last song in the playlist is over, it would be nice if the state remained in play mode so that when another song is added to the queue the new song would play right away.

Also, I've been wanting something just like this but that would also play the video as well as audio.

corny | 22 days ago

Ripping the video to s3, naughty naughty. Be expecting your YouTube API key to be revoked and DMCA.

cdurth | 22 days ago

You should probably put the MIT license you're using into a license.txt file in the repo. I don't see it anywhere outside of mention in the readme.

extraduder_ire | 22 days ago

Very cool application, nice UI too. No accounts is great. Youtube is obviously a must, but having the possibility to add a link to a file would be nice.

JodieBenitez | 22 days ago

Superfun! Would be cool if you could experience the Jukebox itself, with a playlist from visitors? Then you directly have playable songs? :)

bahrtw | 22 days ago

Another one, but for TTRPG sessions: https://dragonicle.com

lovegrenoble | 22 days ago

Neat.

Any plans to support playback as a shoutcast stream, so folks can listen with their usual sound systems instead of a web browser?

foresto | 22 days ago

Ah man... anyone remember JQBX?

jason_zig | 22 days ago

I love that this was a "stress-relief project."

noleary | 22 days ago

Love this! More open source products for the better!

awaseem | 22 days ago

> Failed to search YouTube: 500

:(

joeyagreco | 22 days ago

Great job!

closetkantian | 22 days ago

dope. If I hit next does it go next on the other people's players?

4b11b4 | 22 days ago

Anyone remember tunez?

https://tunez.sourceforge.net/

endlessvoid94 | 22 days ago