Exclude Video Search Results, Add Youtube links and more
As most of you know, we recently added support for blipping Youtube videos. We think this has been a great addition, but we also realize that we won’t please everyone with every new feature. We like to add new features as soon as they’re ready and then refine them based on user feedback. To that end, you can now type -video along with your search term to filter out video search results. For example:
- Searching for “Rolling Stones” will still yield the mixed search results of video and audio as it used to.
- Searching for “Rolling Stones -video” will produce results with videos filtered out.
We’re aware that not everyone has unlimited bandwidth, so we do plan to allow you to skip over video blips in the future. However, there is some groundwork we still have to lay in order to make sure that the user experience of this feels right.
We’ve also had some questions about how to add videos that are difficult to find through Blip.fm or maybe just haven’t shown up in Youtube’s search results yet. Well, you can now paste the full url of a youtube video (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIyWrNEeMcI ) into the search field to blip that video.
There were also a couple other additions / fixes in this round of maintenance:
- Problems with credits being attributed correctly have been fixed and credit counts have been rectified based off our master records.
- More songs now have iTunes links since we realize this is a preference for many. We’re also working to expand purchasing availability for our international users.
23 Comments
intinet on May 29th, 2009
would you please do the same with Imeem? kind of “Rolling Stones -Imeem” search? it would be gorgeous =) =)
Keep blipping!!
ilbis on May 29th, 2009
It’s a great new feature to show videos!
Maybe you can add more videohosters, not only youtube???
Also, I would like to have some faetures (if possible) like:
- more or categorized playlist
- more and/or customizable widget (playlist, users, public….)
Johnny_the_Boy on May 29th, 2009
I still wanna see what album an imeem track is from, and the ability to find something on imeem then blip it, as opposed to only being able to find imeem tracks on blip.
befraifone on May 29th, 2009
@ilbis:
This exact string may work as you wish –>
“Rolling Stones” -imeem
befraifone on May 29th, 2009
Oops, sorry. Reply hadto got to @intinet.
Miss_Bella on May 29th, 2009
I admit is was super annoying going though pretty much every song in my search results and having it be crossed out until I found like 2 that work, and those weren’t even the songs I wanted!
Blip used to be simple, and now it feels like there is too much work to be put in it by the user. Slippin a lil bit… 
randyhate on May 30th, 2009
what is the deal w/ youtube clips on a page all of a sudden going dead. all of them, all at once.
but when i reload the page, they play again.
i can not be the only one facing this issue.
FrabjousDay on May 31st, 2009
Thank you for implementing the -video option for search. I’ll be anxiously awaiting the option to omit videos from the blipstream. In the meantime, how about putting the audio results at the top of the search results, instead of the video for mixed search? That might reduce the number of video blips, which seem to be about 75% of all blips right now.
oliboni on May 31st, 2009
Youtube has been fantastic. It extended much of the acquis blip.fm
musicfanmic on June 1st, 2009
Hey, I just logged on and all of my are gone. When I logged off I had 35 or 37 credits. Now I have none. What happened?
sagopal on June 3rd, 2009
you guys are doing a gr8 job.
I thought of one small feature which would make me more produtive at blip.fm.
* Autocomplete/Suggestion of Listener names/user names while blipping would be nice to have.
thecapitalclinic on June 4th, 2009
I think the List [see sample below] following the feed: “What other DJs are saying about [Artist - song]” is a fantastic addition. However, you should make this more widely available either-
1. Whenever a song is blipped, the feed appears; and/or
2. As a click-on option like the “reblip”, “add to playlist”, etc. buttons
Just a suggestion. In the meantime, great ongoing additions. Thanks
thecapitalclinic on June 4th, 2009
Regarding my last comment, with apologies, I just noticed that when you click on the date of the blip, you get the running commentary about the song being played. You are way ahead of me; but you definitely should let the blip-world know about this feature.
Latika on June 14th, 2009
scottymac613 on June 15th, 2009
can blip song cant hear none or see none why?
hellomilo on June 16th, 2009
Glad you gave us the option. Is useful to have.
13sirc on June 20th, 2009
I would like to get the music blips without the videos first. I agree with frabjousday.
Why don’t you also work with the lyrics?
Rgds
djiezes on July 22nd, 2009
I love the video option, so kudos on that.
But what we really need, is a -30sec option. More & more songs are 30seconds previews only. This could be because I’m geographically handicapped (aka non-US citizen, European), but everytime I search for something I almost only get 30seconds results from imeem. This transforms blip.fm in an unusable application for me and many others.
ElenaLisvato on August 4th, 2009
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.
diolia on August 23rd, 2009
I want the option to do not watch youtube videos. In fact I need it!
mariovanderwart on December 3rd, 2009
-imeem works as well - I just tried out!!!
(also in addition with -video)
Thanks very much for this!
You are doing a great job!
How To Download Video From Youtube on January 11th, 2010
I’ve been looking at downloading videos from YouTube, it seems that YouTube and many other social network sites have changed their code in order to prevent certain sites from allowing you to download video content from them; most annoying, is there a foolproof alternative? Anyway, excellent blog post, I found it very insightful.
redskyy on May 28th, 2009
I like the philosophy and the constant new features. I liked the idea of the YouTube addition, especially since it can greatly add to the database and show songs that normally wouldn’t be available. Being able to blip out any YT video is a nice touch and hope to see the feature get refined even further. The -video search will help when wanting to play the high quality song version.
Keep up the great work!