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MiniTube Syncs And Plays Music Videos With Your MP3s
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:03 AM on September 30, 2008
Windows (with iTunes, WinAmp, or KMPlayer): Free plug-in tool MiniTube hunts down music videos from Flash-based video sites and plays them along with your tunes. MiniTube's signature feature is the ability to play the video synced up to your local MP3—in other words, lip-synced to wherever you are in the song when the video starts playing. Its video accuracy depends, of course, on the accuracy of YouTube uploaders (and the video's copyright status), but you can tell MiniTube that a video is wrong and have it re-search, and it can be set to disappear when there's nothing to grab. Check out a video demonstration of MiniTube in action below.
MiniTube is a free download for Windows systems; requires iTunes, WinAmp, or the free KMPlayer to work. (Screenshot from SongReference.)
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dr.vox
Posted 1:41 AM 30/9/08
That autoplaying video is annoying me already. As is his voice.
dr.vox
equazcion
Posted 1:33 AM 30/9/08
Pretty amazing if this actually works. I was thinking of doing something similar, manually replacing the audio in music videos with mp3s, since the audio in compressed music videos usually terrible quality. However I realized that the audio tracks used in music videos are often not cut exactly the same way as the album versions, so they often won't sync up correctly. I wonder how they got around that.
equazcion
equazcion
Posted 2:07 AM 30/9/08
@A3sthetix: You're not missing anything.
equazcion
A3sthetix
Posted 2:06 AM 30/9/08
No love for Mac iTunes users.
A3sthetix
falter
Posted 1:57 AM 30/9/08
I want my mtv...
falter
Rodriguez
Posted 1:54 AM 30/9/08
While it is true that Autoplay = Fail, at least it was Radiohead. Right?
Rodriguez
equazcion
Posted 1:54 AM 30/9/08
I just downloaded this and tried it on a few random songs. It doesn't seem to do anything all that revolutionary. It pretty much just searches youtube for the video that corresponds with your MP3, and plays it along at the same time. It doesn't do any kind of revolutionary automatic lip-syncing thing. It just starts the video when you start the song, in the hopes that they'll match up. And they rarely do.
equazcion
glitch1138
Posted 1:48 AM 30/9/08
This video autoplays in the Lifehacker RSS feed (through Google Reader).
glitch1138
MobileMilitia
Posted 1:47 AM 30/9/08
@dr.vox: yeah, wtf was that? it was way down in my rss reader when it started playing and it freaked me the hell out.
MobileMilitia
ScottTFrazer
Posted 2:17 AM 30/9/08
I'm going to chime in with rest of the requests to not inline auto-play videos in the RSS feed. As mentioned, google's reader pre-loads several stories ahead and having the window just start talking to me without knowing which story is actually making the noise is obnoxious
ScottTFrazer
stratboy
Posted 2:15 AM 30/9/08
@dr.vox: Agree.
Seriously....autoplay? Autoplay = spam.
Another vote to ban autoplay on Gizmodo.
stratboy
pnikkosis
Posted 2:13 AM 30/9/08
this is a great idea, hope they make it for windows media player
pnikkosis
dr.vox
Posted 2:55 AM 30/9/08
@Rodriguez:
It wasn't at first though, was it? It was a mysterious Arabian accent that had somehow found his way into my feeds.
dr.vox
flowerygirl51
Posted 2:50 AM 30/9/08
@glitch1138: @dr.vox: YES!!! Please stop the autoplay! It's annoying, I just want to skim my feeds, please!
flowerygirl51
waleed.z
Posted 3:24 AM 30/9/08
@MobileMilitia: Scared the hell out of me too! My first paranoid, stupid thought was I'd been hacked... I am ashamed, but that voice of his caught me unawares!
waleed.z
Khaavren
Posted 3:15 AM 30/9/08
VERY cool! I've thought about this idea before and pushed it out of my "cool ideas to do" list because I thought it would be a pain.
Good to see somebody did it for us. :)
Khaavren
mcv2
Posted 3:43 AM 30/9/08
Oh, and this looks like a cool feature if you happen to use either of those players. I especially like the feature to look up information about the song on Wiki, as I often do this myself (I've learnt a lot of interesting facts about some of my favourite artists and tracks like tis).
mcv2
mcv2
Posted 3:41 AM 30/9/08
I agree that the autoplay feature would annoy me, except that it doesn't autoplay, I use Flashblock to prevent these kind of files from doing so, requiring me to specifically press play to allow the flash file to run.
However, for those that don't use this Firefox extension, I concur with the requests for the removal of the autoplay feature.
mcv2
ConwayAgasthenes
Posted 3:15 AM 30/9/08
I agree - Please never put self-starting videos in the RSS feed again. Terribly annoying.
ConwayAgasthenes
mmillmor
Posted 4:19 AM 30/9/08
Really not happy with this auto-play. Keeps starting every time the page refreshes, and played in google reader when it was well off page. Please don't do that again!
mmillmor
wffurr
Posted 4:17 AM 30/9/08
Auto-playing video on a non-video-specific site is no good.
wffurr
reclusivemonkey
Posted 5:25 AM 30/9/08
@dr.vox: Mysterious Arabian? Its an Indian accent.
I can't hear an Indian accent now without thinking about Fonejacker and Internet Service Providings...
reclusivemonkey
Ben J
Posted 6:44 AM 30/9/08
gave it a shot - i'm not an ultra-lightweight app guy (iTunes is too big, but foobar is usually too small), but this was way too much. It didn't crush my system, but it was a functionality that I didn't need. I also couldn't get the sync to work...
Ben J
futurityverb
Posted 7:00 AM 30/9/08
Anyone try this with Mediamonkey?
futurityverb
Darkmatter91
Posted 7:52 AM 30/9/08
Wow, I was opening like 20+ tabs from sites then all the sudden I head something over my music playing in the BG and I had to go through like 10 tab b4 I found it was this one - On top of that On MiniTubes main website the video DOES NOT auto start.... Why would LH autostart it?
Darkmatter91
icedicicle
Posted 10:10 AM 30/9/08
Syncing dosen't work. Quite disappointing.
icedicicle
SarojKaylon
Posted 11:49 AM 30/9/08
that's a pretty cool plugin! simple yet ridiculously amazing.. i don't have any problem syncing my mp3s to videos either.. anyway, thanks so much for sharing!
SarojKaylon
dasMetzger
Posted 10:13 AM 1/10/08
@ScottTFrazer: agreed entirely... especially when you're browsing your reader at work. i needed to close my windows cos i thought i had some sh*tty popup ad somewhere (which i know is impossible on google reader)
dasMetzger
phazer08
Posted 5:41 AM 30/9/08
@dr.vox: Agree x 3. Make it stop!!
phazer08