I wanted to play with new toys, so here's a little app that lets you build and synchronize a playlist with other people. Open the page in a few more tabs/computers for more fun. Thanks for playing :)

Limitations: It relies on HTML5 audio, so it probably only works well on Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Content comes from YouTube, so Firefox might have trouble with AAC when WebM is unavailable. Mobile devices are remote control only.

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News (hacker jam!)

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News?mode=auto (play old stuff if there are no requests)

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News?mode=rc (remote control only, with no audio)

Replace `Hacker-News` with your channel name.

Not bad. Seems somewhat lighter featured than plug.dj and other community dj rooms, but I think the nice thing is that you're just extracting the html5 audio tracks as opposed to playing the entire video. Could make it easier to port to mobile.

I'd like to see more sources than youtube though - soundcloud specifically.

Any plans on open sourcing this?

This is awesome. I just got Weird Al's "The Saga Begins" to follow Don McLean's "American Pie". It's like riffing with whole tracks. It'd be wonderful if everyone could agree to riff on each track, rather than just injecting their favorite stuff and breaking any overall unity to the playlist.

Love the idea, but I'm having trouble getting the audio to play. After searching for and adding songs, they are listed but the "There are no requests" message is still displayed, and nothing is playing. Am I missing something?

Love how simple and friction-less the UX is! Also, search auto-complete is really fast, how did you do that? (wouldn't suppose you cached entire YouTube's index)

Looking pretty good for a first run, of course UI updates will have to happen, as it took a bit of clicking to figure out where i was at and what i was actually doing. Still confused as to what control/endless and just the normal room grant.

Either way, I started a room in http://jam.now.im/c/bass and its basically just bugged out. The track that i put in first (of course) is throwing a 500 when it tries to play `Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)`.

You might need some sort of fail handler to ensure a room doesnt just get flat out bugged.

Either way, thanks, and I'll be watching closely :) Plans to open source? Or you more like planning to make $$? :P

Does not work for me:

- Chrome Version 41.0.2272.118 (64-bit)

- MBP 2014 MAC OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite

Also tried latest version of Waterfox.

Having a rather poor internet connection here, but kept the page open for more than 5mins without any music playing.

Any suggestions?

When I request songs, it shows up at the top section and then grays out. And it looks like there is no way to add the song to the queue. Is there a reason for this? Otherwise, this is something I always wanted every since we lost turntable.fm :(. I never got into plug.dj.

It does not look like an on-demand music player. Is it true?

Another question if someone can answer here - it looks this site is playing just audio from youtube music videos. How can you do that? Is it a hack or youtube api supports some type of parameter?

Not bad at all. I'll have to pass this around with my coworkers and see if we can get a room going.

I'm also pleasantly surprised that I'm not the only one around here who likes Yes. :)

If someone wants something similar, but for their local music collection, check out grooveshark -- it features a web UI and streaming to any number of connected hosts, along with a (primitive) permissions model and allows uploading of new tracks to the music library through the web UI.

WOW! You just made the worlds best music discovery service! Too bad that was the easy part ...

This is really cool, I've just played about 10 tracks with it. A little bit confusing though, not sure what BlueberryJam means in the top left corner, is that my channel name?

It's blocked by our corporate web filtering service.