TubeRadio.fm: a YouTube music player
Over twenty hours of videos are uploaded to Youtube every minute. With that immense volume of footage being poured into the YouTube cauldron, we need effective filters to find videos.
In October, 2009, a new video filtering site was launched, called TubeRadio.fm. Focusing on music, TubeRadio is a tool where you can search YouTube according to artist name and TubeRadio creates a video playlist for you in a web app player that resembled iTunes.
The developer explains in their introductory video:
“TubeRadio is a music player for the web, built around YouTube. So it has the largest music library in the world because you can have access to anything that’s up on YouTube. And YouTube has millions and millions of songs.”
Searching for Fleet Foxes brings up album covers that the band has released. Clicking on the album cover and then selecting “add albums to playlist,” and TubeRadio creates a video playlist of the album. While you’re watching the playlist and you’re not happy with a video it selected for a particular song, click on the gear and select “find replacement”.
You can also create video playlists by searching for songs or artists, and then dragging/dropping the video into your playlist. Once you finish your playlist you can share it with others.
TubeRadio also integrates social aspects into the site. You can subscribe to other users, for example, post shout outs, view their public playlists, etc.
While your’e watching a video, you can browse other releases by the artist, read the artist’s bio, or browse similar artists (these features are powered by Last.fm). You can also view the lyrics of the song you’re listening/watching.
Seeing that YouTube has become a lake of videos that are merely songs with a photo slideshow, TubeRadio is a great tool for finding music on YouTube when you’re not necessarily wanting to watch music videos or live footage. This could be a cool way to stream videos on a backdrop at an event or party.
Currently TubeRadio doesn’t support embedding playlists on other websites, but they informed me via Twitter that they’re adding an embedding feature soon. This could be a great tool to manage embedded video playlists on blogs, and we’re seriously considering to integrate TubeRadio playlists for the next Puddlegum website design.
TubeRadio is also finishing an iPhone/Touch app (and dare we say iPad?), so you’ll soon be able to carry TubeRadio in your pocket.
Check out their introductory video, then visit the site: www.tuberadio.fm