[APP] Ghosttown - New free app using YouTube API to search for music!

αкαѕнα

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FEATURES

• Completely Free
• Listen to any song by any artist
• Organized by Artist and Album
• Save Favorites and Playlists
• Send Playlists to friends
• Works on 3G, 4G or WiFi

How does it works?

Can we really listen to any song?
When you select a song, Ghosttown uses the YouTube API to search for and play the song. Just about any song by a known artist will work.

Where is the app available?
You can download Ghosttown from the Android Market

More info: http://ghosttownapp.com/

 

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FuryriderX

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• May 29, 2011

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Wow, i am impressed. Does exactly what it says! Sometimes finds live versions of the songs though, instead of the album versions.

 

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EleCtrOx666

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Saw this on Gizmodo, very nice app!

 

xriderx66

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So we can just search from Youtube and download/listen to the song?
THATS INCREDIBLE!

THANK YOU

oh and yeah the LIVE versions that come up are annoying as ****.


edit: how do you download the songs? is this just for listening?

 

αкαѕнα

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xriderx66 said:

edit: how do you download the songs? is this just for listening?

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No download is NOT available because that would violate copyright restrictions and Youtube terms of service.

 

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LordManhattan

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This is genius!

edit: Is it possible to only use wifi?

 

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αкαѕнα

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BazookaAce said:

edit: Is it possible to only use wifi?

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It use whatever connection you have at the time ^^

So if wifi is what you have when you use this app that’s the only connection it will use..

 

jonas2295

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Awesome but download feature would be great . I know its maybe illegal

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TheRomMistress

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• May 29, 2011

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Trying to write an article on the app - sent an email to the address listed on your website but it failed to go through?

 

xriderx66

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αкαѕнα said:

No download is NOT available because that would violate copyright restrictions and Youtube terms of service.

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awwwww
How about if you made an exception and PM'd me it and i didn't share?

just kidding, well thanks its a good app anyways

 

TheRomMistress

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FYI for those of you laughing about copyright infringements

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Don't post copyrighted materials or do other things that will obviously lead to legal trouble. If you wouldn't do it on your own homepage, you probably don't want to do it here either. This does not mean we agree with everything the software piracy lobby try to impose on us, it simply means you cannot break any laws here, since we'll end up dealing with legal hassle caused by you. Please use common sense: respect the forum, its users, and those that write great code.[/QUOTE]

 

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jp22382

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Loving this app!

Just needs a playback control widget and compatibility with bluetooth controls (unless mine just isn't cooperating).

 

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Ciela

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Just wondering if this is essentially just a youtube player without displaying the video?

Meaning.. does it still stream/download both video and audio from the youtube servers, but just play the audio without displaying video? Or does it just stream/download the audio from youtubes servers without the video (less to download etc)

 

brilldoctor

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Great app. Shame that there is no killers live from the royal albert hall. Would also be nice if the audio at the start of some songs (try a dustland farytale of the importance of being idle) could be removed

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-SAIUN-

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Ciela said:

Just wondering if this is essentially just a youtube player without displaying the video?

Meaning.. does it still stream/download both video and audio from the youtube servers, but just play the audio without displaying video? Or does it just stream/download the audio from youtubes servers without the video (less to download etc)

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I'd like to know this also. And if the music comes direct from YouTube's servers or if it has to pass through another or anything, because my plan has unlimited YouTube access and if it's all coming from YouTube I can use as much as I'd like.

 

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Xenodwarf

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I'm kinda wondering about the quality of the audio. How is this compared to say, Spotify?

 

famewolf

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Nice idea....here's a couple of suggestions...I'm on a slow connection...is there the possibility to be able to check "slow connection" or "buffer entire song"? I'd either like it to buffer MORE or the whole song before playing..nothing more annoying then a song that stops every 10 seconds or so to buffer for another minute then 10 more seconds......along those lines I'd suggest buffering song 2 as soon as song 1 finishes downloading......on a fast connection this won't matter but if I'm buffering whole songs it means the 3 minutes or so the song is playing are grabbing the next song for me.


Also, if you are in fact grabbing the video's and stipping off the audio...maybe you want to allow someone to choose quality level....audiophiles may want the audio from the high quality version (360p etc) where people with slowpoke connections may be fine with the "lowfi" version.

You may want a "ban this song" option as well for those getting "live" versions of songs...create a personal blacklist for that one and pull in a new one.

Thanks!

 

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jrafael

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• May 30, 2011

• #18

xriderx66 said:

So we can just search from Youtube and download/listen to the song?
THATS INCREDIBLE!

THANK YOU

oh and yeah the LIVE versions that come up are annoying as ****.


edit: how do you download the songs? is this just for listening?

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Try tubemate, its in the market

Sent from my neighbors wifi.

 

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deejaylobo

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• May 30, 2011

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I sent you an email through the Market contact but, I'll post it here too.

This app is great! When it works it works brilliant. One annoying gripe though, songs skip randomly and sometimes the app just quits altogether. I'm not sure if it's because of conflicting music apps(I have Tune Wiki and Music 3.0 as well) or what. But the song skipping happens whenever I run another app alongside this one. Like, Whatsapp or MP3 Music Downloader. Just now, it quit when I logged on to the Market. Let me know how I can help.

I have a Nexus S(i9023) currently running Liquid Nexusbread v1.9 with Netarchy 1.3.2 kernel on Android 2.3.4

 

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beren

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• May 30, 2011

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congratulations, it's a very good app.
i'd like to be able to put the whole album in playlist instead of song by song...