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Ask HN: Instapaper for audio?

2 points| ajcronk | 16 years ago

Has anyone seen something like Instapaper for audio? As a DJ, I'm always listening to new music and mixes from a range of sources. Direct mp3 link, Soundcloud, YouTube, 8tracks, mixcloud, etc.

I'd love to click 'Listen later' and build an audio queue that I could stream to my mobile (which is key).

The closest thing I could find was huffduffer.com, but that is not what I'm looking for. Do I just have to build the thing?

2 comments

systemtrigger|16 years ago

Good idea. I agree it would be nice not having to download audio files (a la Huffduffer) since mobile devices have limited storage capacity. I know of no service that streams personalized queues of video either.

systemtrigger|16 years ago

Another audio service I'd like to see: human powered text-to-speech...that scales.

Quick mockup: http://audiothink.com

Concept: User provides prose and a narrator reads it. User pays based on the number of words. Narrator posts audio files to user's private podcast. User subscribes to podcast or dials a (Twilio-powered) phone line. Service uses Mechanical Turk workers to do the narrating. But that introduces hard quality control issues. How does one automate the outsourcing of...art? I thought maybe if I set up a good qualification and reward system the service could have quality safeguards - but that's hardly a solid foundation on which to devote months of hacking. So that's where I stopped.