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Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music by TilmanGriesel on Thursday June 05, 2014 @06:39AM (#7851197)
Completely right! They have to build a spotify / popcorn clone for open, not for commercial music.

I took a short look into their source code and I discovered that they are using youtube (google video) for playback, the iTunes API to get the top list, LastFM to get the covers. One song is round about 20MB because they play the entire video. Nothing more then a youtube fronted stitched together from 3 API's and inspired by Popcorn Time. I think google will block it as soon as they can.

And after a short try I mentioned that some songs are only bad covers from private people. Well ... yeah

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Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music by hiphopapp on Saturday June 07, 2014 @05:39PM (#7863183)
HipHop is using Youtube's 128kbps or 192 audio stream only. It fallbacks on the video in the rare cases Youtube does not provide audio streams.
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Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music by lorisg on Friday June 06, 2014 @06:55AM (#7857118)
Except Google cannot block it so easily : API calls cannot be filtered out from legit ones using API keys or IP addresses
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