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Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music on Saturday June 07, 2014 @05:45PM (#7863201)
Still up!
Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music on Saturday June 07, 2014 @05:40PM (#7863188)
You should join the HipHop project, you could contribute a lot
Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music 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.
https://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop

Calls should be to itunes API, Youtube and Google Analytics BTW

Youtube (audio stream)
Wanted to see how this goes first, but you are right about trust when talking about a desktop app. If this blocks everybody, I will open-source it.
Good point. Wondering how to do this without open-sourcing though.