About

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Hi! I'm an amateur web developer and an avid music listener. I'd like to share to you my story and a script that I built for the purpose of queuing videos on YouTube.

First the story.

Using Grooveshark to feed my ever growing interest in music from the beginning, I was legitimately convinced that they were working with the record companies and compensating artists for their music. It came as a heartbreaking surprise when they were shut down in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

Knowing that YouTube was a semi-safe spot to find music videos (given their ownership by Google), I actively searched out an alternative that utilized videos instead of actual songs. A promising browser extension named Streamus popped up, and I started to use it. Little did I know that Google already started to have a problem with how it split audio from videos against their TOS and shut it down as well.

Shucks! Burnt twice over on projects that stored my playlists on their "failsafe" servers, I decided to take things into my own hands.

I created a browser script named "Streamly" to solve my needs. Streamly is written entirely in JavaScript (runs entirely in your browser) and does not use any company key (API key) to gather information. All playlist information is stored into the URL of Streamly, so that YOU have total control of your playlists.

Streamly is perpetually in beta stage as I'm improving it all the time. Many new features are in store for Streamly in the coming months.

Over the last 5 years I've improved nearly every aspect of Streamly but have had to portion my time towards other responsibilities. If you find anything that you think could be better, or discover any bugs with how it operates please let me know! Working on bugs or improvements that you let me know about ultimately take priority. I'm always happy to help! Thanks for your understanding.

Streamly

I'll cut the chit-chat and let you take a look for yourself.

• Here's a few sample playlists so you can see it in action:

  Streamly - Top 50 of 50 Years Ago - 1967 (Happy New Year 2017!)

  Streamly - Thomas Newman's Greatest Soundtracks

  You can find more playlists on the Playlist Wiki

  Be sure to go to Getting Started for instructions on how to use

• The whole open-source project is hosted on GitHub under the Apache License

• streamly.us.to is a quick way to open Streamly

• Streamly's subreddit: /r/StreamlyReddit

Thanks for taking the time to read! I hope that you will find Streamly as useful as I have. Happy Streaming!