Soundcloud, dancecloud, soundcloud

So, I decided to make a soundcloud clone. It’s a hybrid multi/single page app: I’ll be making extensive use of Rails, but I’ll also have some backbone.js parts.

Before finding out about paperclip, uploading seemed a bit of a boondoggle. I then decided to switch to just embedding youtube videos. Instead of commenting on other users’ sound clips, I’d have users embed youtube dance videos and then comment on them. I had wanted to enforce html5 video to make overlays easier (integrating the video into the DOM and whatnot). Unfortunately, youtube’s API doesn’t allow this. Additionally, some videos are not embeddable and I couldn’t find a way to query this in the API. Then, I learned about paperclip.

So, I’m back to making soundcloud.