Help needed from a volunteer PLAYER/web PROGRAMMER (Charity project)

[noebrowe]

I am working on a charitable project. I am going to build and run a music-web-video-player-website TO SUPPORT / PROMOTE UNKNOWN TALENTED SINGERS, MOSTLY BEGINNING TALENTED SINGERS. There're so many talented singers but nobody knows them. Usually young people, teenagers. They usually sing at home in their bedroom, toilet, bathroom and maybe in a school / church. Many of them, they stop singing just because they have to study and find a "proper" job where is a sure salary. (Usually their parents insist on them to do so.) What a pity, by this way, so many talented beautiful voices are lost for ever. I want to build and run such website where I will be playing their singing in one main web video player like in a TV but not live (with better way...the technical specification of project SEE below). I believe, such website will become well-known like MTV with big number of viewers to support / promote unknown talented singers to get fans for them so that they could make a living by singing, in the future, so that their talents and beautiful voices could not be lost for ever.

 

I already have carefully selected thousands of talented beginning singers (their videos) on my Youtube channels but because YouTube has very restricted features, especially, NO player where I could play hundred thousands (UNLIMITED number) of videos in ONE web video player like in a TV and the quality of YouTube features is going down and down, I created a great charity project of website for talented unknown singers where non-singing viewers as well as singers will love to watch the singing videos and will have a space for their creative work. I am going to move all my playlists (thousands of videos), where are carefully selected talented unknown singers, from my YouTube channels to my new future website, (at the beginning) and then I will be adding new and new videos, every day for every year for all the rest of my life. This is the most hard work because NOT everybody is able to select the right videos that viewers love to watch, and NOT everybody is able to regularly spend so much time with making selection. However, I am not any programmer. I need a help. I need someone who is a charitable computer geek or an internet charitable freak, someone who has programming skills / knowledge and with a passion for music and who will love to participate with a passion in this charity project.. As a return for your help, I can offer free space on the website. I am open for an arrangement. Offers, Questions, Details of the "Talented-Singers-Project", I will send on request: Please email me at amertasaATgmailDOTcom. Thank you. Please, note, this is a charity project. So, if you do not want to help as a volunteer but you want money, do NOT contact me. Thanks.

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I do NOT ask a volunteer for making that website in one week or so. I just mean a volunteer who has the passion making very interesting, unique, unrivalled websites, can take it as a hobby (for example ONE HOUR PER WEEK), any time the volunteer has the good mood and free time for it, and enjoy he/she is making something new that doesn't exist on Internet, and widen/extend his/her knowledge plus helping changing so many lifetimes of young people (MOSTLY UNKNOWN BEGINNING TALENTED SINGERS) already from the beginning since they are young, since the age there is the chance to start a career as a singer. ONE HOUR PER WEEK: Take it as a hobby. When the project will be finished (in one year or so), it doesn't matter. The most important for me is the great result. In some technical things I can make a compromise but in some ones I cannot. Because I want to make something successful, not something what is similar to thousands of other websites. It would not help the beginning singers, because their such website would have a minimum views. That's why still almost nobody would know about the talented beginning singers.

 

I do have a few EMPTY testing websites. If there are volunteers who are interested in my charity project, I will tell them the Login Details (username, password) for those empty websites, and If you find a free time sometimes (for example ONE HOUR PER WEEK), you can experiment according to my project, on the website. I will keep the testing website open only for you. .

I write here all the main specifications because I just would like to let volunteers know what skills / knowledge they should have so that they do not waste their and my time: I received some offers from people who love my project and would like to help as volunteers but they gave it up, later, because they do not have so large skills / knowledge:

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So that you can easily understand WHAT FEATURES that web video player and the website has to have, I write them below:

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1) Adding unlimited number of embedded videos:

I or/and singers who will have my permission (to keep high-quality of the singing), will be pasting unlimited number of URL links (or video ID's / iframe?) into a playlist (probably into database / a video rotator? An interface is necessary.). These videos will be automatically played in THREE players:

- In the MAIN player like in a TV on the MAIN public page (the front end). Here will be played ALL the videos from ALL the singers.

- In a Little Player in a Little Page. Every singer will have own Little Page on the main page where will be the main player, as well. Here, in the individual Little Pages, will be played ONLY those videos that are ONLY from an individual singer.

- In the player on own Large singer's Page. Every singer will have OWN Large Page where will play ONLY own videos. This player will have a public playlist.

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2) The Little Pages will be in a galery on the MAIN public page. The Little Pages will be moving: In the top left corner will always be the singer's Little Page whose video has been played in the main player just in that moment. The videos from those singers' Little Pages that already were played, will be moving to the right and down (the direction like when you read a text). There will be another mode of the galery: Newest added video. The direction of the moving of the Little Pages will be the same.

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3) Only those singers who will have my permission, will be allowed to fully customize own Little Page:

Size of the Little Page, upload photos/pictures (as the background or separately, any position), add anywhere a text, choose font and their colors, colors of backgrounds/lines, active links (to singers' YouTube channel / web pages), etc.

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4) Every singer who will have my permission, will be allowed to fully customize own Large Page:

Upload photos/pictures (as the background or separately, any position), position of the player, add anywhere a text, choose font and their colors, colors of backgrounds/lines, active links (to singers' YouTube channel / web pages), etc.

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5) Under the MAIN player always will be a singer's name / nickname whose video has been played PLUS singers' names / nicknames whose videos were played, so that viewers can easily find up their Little Pages to open their Large Pages where they can see their playlists of ALL their own videos.

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6) Because this main page will be very heavy, there will be light version where will be ONLY the main player. Nothing more. The light version will be good especially for mobile telephones and tablets.

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7) No video will be repeated (except exceptions):

Playing videos RANDOMLY = (where absolutely nothing will be repeated before ALL the videos are played, even after repeatedly restarting a computer by any individual user. (Probably using Cookies and a custom embedded video rotator?).): The web video player will know which songs already were played by each individual viewer so that NO song could be repeated FOR each individual viewer! (except exceptions: SEE below)

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8 ) Repeating concrete videos:

If I want, I will make settings for some concrete videos how many times some concrete video will be played (repeated) = percentage rate to all the number of videos in the playlist, to be able to promote concrete songs / videos. (Probably using a custom embedded video rotator?)

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9) "Annotations" WITH (and without) THE DIRECT LINK to any web page on Internet:

(I mean the same feature like it is on YouTube where you can write any text you want on the screen of the player and after you click on the text, you are automatically redirected to any other page on internet (in a new window), for example: "CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SINGER ON YOUTUBE." After one click on this sentence it will open a singer's original channel on YouTube or any other web page (in a new window). BUT I think, this one is not possible because the videos willl be embedded. But if you have any idea? Maybe below the player?

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10) The web video player has to be played in ANY media:

(for example: in any computers: desktops, laptops/notebooks, ipodes, any telephones, tablets, (MP4 if connected with internet) or whatever. (In MP3 players as an internet radio only = only audio, of course). But adding videos (uploading, pasting the links) has to be done ONLY once = only one format of the links (uploadings) for each video because I will be adding a huge number of the links (of uploadings) every day. That's why I will NOT have any free time to be pasting more formats of the links / uploading videos for each video. BUT I think this one is already solved because the videos will be ambedded from YouTube and that's why I cannot make any changes about it.

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11) Standard features:

Full Screen, Skip the video ("forward" ) = SEE below, Volume, Mute, Stop / Play, time of the running video / duration of the running video, change quality, Autostart the web video player, Autonext every video.

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12) "Forward" ("skip) the song (video):

If an individual viewer clicks the button: "forward" ("skip") the song (video), the player will play the next video and NOT play this song (video), any more, until all the playlist has been watched by that viewer. (Because the player will think, that viewer does not like this song (video).) By this way it will work (=it will remember it) ALSO even after restarting individual computers.

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13) The problems with "buffering":

Viewers will NOT wait for "buffering". I think this one is solved because the videos will be embedded from YouTube. And YouTube has good service for this one.

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14) The website will appear in search engines in the frontmost placings on the first Google Page. I've heard there're some clever ways? Any ideas?

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15) Continuously backup (with only one click) every embedded video (the list = all the content of the player including all the codes) from my website (that is on a webhosting) to some Internet free unlimited storage.

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[sniko]

An interesting approach to an interesting idea.

Just out of curiosity, and I think she's signed already, but have you got Ebony Day on your playlist? I went to school with her (I was a year below).

Seeing peoples success from YouTube alone, and the new release of MySpace, I wouldn't confidentially say that this concept is 'unrivaled', especially as they're already established grounds for these type of things (YouTube being more diverse, however).

I do have a few questions, if you wouldn't mind;

• How will the outgoings be arranged. (Sever, domains, (if any) copyright infringement)
  
• If any, what framework(s) will you be hoping to adopt?
  
• If any, what libraries will you be hoping to harness?
  
• Viewers will NOT wait for "buffering" - A somewhat touchy subject, if you look into Internet backbone providers. Therefore your buffering vision may be destroyed - sorry!
  
• IF the projects becomes a success (a relative term, I know!)
  
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  • How would credibility be split?
    
  • How would profit be split?
    
  • What guarantees 'my' service to be required, during its success? (I know it's a volunteer position, but money changes people.)
    

  [*]How would you market such a product?

  [*]How would you turn views into signing/profit for the singer?

  [*]Do you currently have any investors to cover initial costing (server, etc)

 

I ask these questions in the greatest of respect. I am not flaming, or trying to put you down.

[noebrowe]

sniko:

I will send you PM to answer your questions.:o

[Guest]

sniko:

I will send you PM to answer your questions.:o

Any chance you could answer them publicly, I too am interested in the answers.

[SRB]

Number 7 raises a concern...

If videos can't be repeated, then say somebody from a record company sees it and needs to show their colleagues... See the problem?

Or am I missing something?

[URBANZ]

I think he means something along the lines to YouTube with the playlists if you shuffle the playlist or are listening through no track will be repeated until all are played unless you select the track yourself to replay it

[noebrowe]

Help needed from a volunteer PLAYER/web PROGRAMMER (Charity project)

Guys, OK, here are my answers publicly. But anyway, I would like to communicate only with such programmers who have a strong interest in working on my project, by EMAILS, to separate timewasters from programmers who have the strong serious interest in working on the project as volunteer.

 

".......have you got Ebony Day on your playlist? I went to school with her........."

> I was making reviews for thousands of videos. I cannot remember all the videos. Sorry. But she has the talent. She is welcome on the playlist.

 

"....Seeing peoples success from YouTube alone, and the new release of MySpace, I wouldn't confidentially say that this concept is 'unrivaled', especially as they're already established grounds for these type of things (YouTube being more diverse, however)........"

 

> You should realize what procentage of singers is succesfull from YouTube/MySpace. Small number because on YouTube/MySpace are mixed shiits with talents there. But on my website will be ONLY talents because EVERY video vwill be reviewed by me. Who will not have the talent, sorry, I will not accept such video. So, the procentage of succesful singers will be higher on my website. By the way, you cannot compare YouTube/MySpace's concept to mine. Because YouTube/MySpace just is a borning storage. Please, read once more my project to understand the differences.

 

 

•How will the outgoings be arranged. (Sever, domains, (if any) copyright infringement)

> At the begining, there will be NO outgoings. (FREE webhosting, etc.) Later, when my websiite will have a good number of viewers, advertisements on the website will pay outgoings.

•If any, what framework(s) will you be hoping to adopt?

•If any, what libraries will you be hoping to harness?

> These two questions are for that programmer who will work on the project.

•Viewers will NOT wait for "buffering" - A somewhat touchy subject, if you look into Internet backbone providers. Therefore your buffering vision may be destroyed - sorry!

> Because this problem exists, I am talking about it to find best ways.

•IF the projects becomes a success (a relative term, I know!) How would credibility be split?

> Exactly depending on who was making what, including the details. So that public cold know which things were made by who. Fair-play. Simple.

•How would profit be split?

> A profit will be invested in the website. Even though this is a volunteer work, I would like the programmer will have own profit from a space on my website: As return for your work, you will suggest a price for your work, and I will lend you a space on my website for a time till the space will generate all the sum of the money for your work. For example: I will be repeatedly playing any your videos (of any topic except porn, brutal violence, criminal / political ideology, any religion, anything against my website, etc.) among the music videos (if possible) plus on the main web page you will have a space for your own web video player or any text, picture / photo, your links (redirection to your own web site) etc., but SEE the exceptions above. What you will place on my website, depends only on you: Whether you will run Google AdSense with your publisher id to earn direct revenue for each click on the ones from Google Company by any visitor of my website or whether you present your own website and get traffic to it or you will present any of your skills / knowledge / services and get the payment from your future clients / customers / employer or whatever, just suggest! I am open for an arrangement.

•What guarantees 'my' service to be required, during its success? (I know it's a volunteer position, but money changes people.)

> No guarantees because this is a volunteer position. But on the other hand, I would be against myself if I would not use service from the one who made the website because the one will know best how to repair something if some problem.

 

•How would you market such a product?

> I am not going to market such product.

•How would you turn views into signing/profit for the singer?

> How? Just imagine how it would help some beginning singer if she/he would be in MTV (=her/his videos)! I believe the website will become so well known like MTV. Such singer has much better chance to get the best contract, to sell more CD, etc. To be in a mass media that is watched by millions of people, is the greatest promotion for a singer!

•Do you currently have any investors to cover initial costing (server, etc)

> No investors. Not necessary anyway. At the begining, there will be NO outgoings. (FREE webhosting, etc.) Later, when my websiite will have a good number of viewers, advertisements on the website will pay outgoings.

 

"...If videos can't be repeated, then say somebody from a record company sees it and needs to show their colleagues... See the problem? Or am I missing something?........."

> I am not going to run boring commercial shiits where you would see one same video 100 times per hour. How ever, singers will have a chance to be more time in the TV on my website if they will make more videos. Because repeating same singer singing different songs is not so boring unlike to repeat the same song by the same singer. P.S.: If some viewers will want to see one same video more times, with just one click will be redirected to a singer's page where can watch her video endlessly times.

Edited August 1, 2013 by noebrowe