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This is brilliant, more info at places like this:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilish-launches-infini...

I was brought up on The NME and the rock press and love left-field bands and I've always felt Billie (and her brother) fit comfortably into that tradition despite (or partly because of) their terrific pop sheen.

Great talent at a very young age; this next decade will be hers.

“...which begins with the singer’s original video for the song and, with the help of AI, has synced up thousands of covers...”

Isn’t this just a timestamp sync for certain search parameters? What has artificial intelligence got to do with this?

It could be a buzzword but I think it'd be fair to assume that different covers of the same song are slightly out of sync at different points. So the algorithm (AI or not) would look for signature beats in the original and match them with beats in a close range in the other songs.

I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.

I bet not. I've been doing NLP for just a few months but my experience is that its fickle at best. Especially with a song that is so repetitive you'd be looking for (n) instance of (n) words.

Also, most of these videos arn't going to have human transcribed lyrics which would further increase the difficulty.

Why not just take all the data they have and throw it into a model to predict time.

On second run it looks like you're right. They have categories that have no lyrics at all.

I mostly got videos with the original song or overlaid at least. I am curious how well it could snyc actual 'covers'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu1vdDhz-_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff60IrtLogU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG0xMK1ciaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWD2cdIyIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RdZwWJzm4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfn_9sz1yaQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2MhpkYjHLw (exception)

These days "with the help of computers" doesn't have the same cachet. I did notice that the videos tend to follow instruments and styles. So it may be a bit more than just temporal synchronization.

I love this, but it feels like Infinite Buffering Simulator 2020 for me.

I'm old enough to resent my younger zoomer siblings' taste in music, and have once been crushed to realize a song on the radio I was enjoying was a Billie Eilish song. Yes, I am a cranky millennial. We are old enough to be cranky now.

At first I didn't understand what this website was, but once I realized everything was synced up and thought about the technical work to make it all work... this is brilliant.

In an alternate youniverse, you delighted in the invitation to shed a prejudice and emerge a little shiny from your old skin.

Ugh, cheerful alternate-youniverse versions of myself are the worst >:(

Source: am also a grumpy millennial.

Nice.

Eilish sounds like repackaged/updated trip hop, so as a gen x'er it feels familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFIIUKAOE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIpv2VTwyJA

This comment made me feel normal again, thank you for explaining why I couldn't understand why I liked her music, from all the way up here in the 40s.

Eilish and her co-writer are very talented melody/hook writers. I had the same hopes for Lorde, who early work was brilliant, but whose star has faded somewhat.

Bah, I've been cranky since before you were born, you have a lot of catching up to do !

BTW, this is not the world's first infinite YouTube video (like they have often been claiming). The first video like that was posted by Twenty One Pilots in June and has been running since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrAAxT8ZLY

Yes. I think it was a genius move. I'm subscribed to their channel and it is always at the top of my subscription list as being live. Having the video constantly feeding in fan submissions was also smart.

100% cpu and console filled with endless

    HTMLIFrameElement.contentWindow properties could not be accessed anyway: DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "https://billie.withyoutube.com" from accessing a cross-origin frame.
        at c (<anonymous>:97:5)
        at HTMLIFrameElement.get [as contentWindow] (<anonymous>:112:9)
        at Z.r.T (https://www.youtube.com/s/player/77da52cd/www-widgetapi.vflset/www-widgetapi.js:601:207)
        at Z.r.ca (https://www.youtube.com/s/player/77da52cd/www-widgetapi.vflset/www-widgetapi.js:598:51)

In chrome I'm just getting "Please try a different browser"

https://billie.withyoutube.com/browser_not_supported.html

So the people at Youtube are the only ones left that target Firefox over Chrome?

As it should be ;)

Firefox is blocked on my work laptop for some unknown reason

you're apparently the last and only chrome user here

While this looks cool, kinda like the UI from some 90ies SciFi movie come to live... what is it? As in, yeah, I can click around, but I don't see what it really does...

You navigate through lots of videos of fans performing Bad Guy - but the twist is they're sync'd up so you can move between them and the song continues without interruption but now it's a different person performing the song.

Loading gets progressively slower as it approaches 100% and then gets stuck at 100%. Using Firefox.

Yeah, I thought that was an intended behaviour before reading other comments.

Seems like disabling uBlock Origin made this work for me

Doesn't work for me, doesn't even tell me it doesn't work.

Unless it's just photo and a smear-like effect under the cursor?

Only works in Firefox for me... "click play" button doesn't show in Chrome

For those suffering buffering, loading, or other misbehavior. Try a mobile browser or disable your plugins.

made by IYOIYO https://mobile.twitter.com/iyoiyostudio/status/1330960246064...

with ML

Interesting, thanks for sharing this tweet about the authors of this video.

BTW, is IYOIYO a company? What do they do?

don't really know. Next tweet has who did what: https://mobile.twitter.com/iyoiyostudio/status/1330960748458...

It is a studio run by Kyle McDonald that "offers creative and tech consulting, with a focus on ML, comp. vision and 'weird' tech" per https://mobile.twitter.com/kcimc/status/1124195544945926149

I've been waiting for 15 minutes for this to load, and now it's stuck at 100%.

Firefox 83 64-bit, Ubuntu 20.04, Ublock Origin. 3D Acceleration on.

Have you clicked "click to play"?

2/3 down, center.

It just says LOADING...

I tried with chrome and same thing.

In firefox I had to enable autoplay (button next the the padlock / left of the address-bar) before the click to play button appeared.

This happens if it fails to load JS/XHR/frames from any of these domains: billie.withyoutube.com / www.google.com / storage.googleapis.com / *.googlevideos.com / www.youtube.com

Check you're not blocking any, eg. in ublock's blocklist or /etc/hosts; or look for errors in the network debugger of your browser

Works on my machine.

Firefox 83 64-bit Manjaro 20.2, µBlock Origin + NoScript.

I need this for anime songs.

It would be extremely useful to be able to switch between originals/English covers like this.

Loads fine for me. Firefox 84.0b5, ublock origin 1.31.0, privacy badger 2020.10.7. No custom blocking rules.

If you're on the Firefox beta channel, ask me anything and I'll work with you to troubleshoot.

That is amazing

What exactly is amazing? I honestly do not get it.

Its a music video which plays, it apparently searches for covers, sync them up so you can switch from the original video to infinity other cover version of it i would say.

video of the same song all across youtube are synchronized: you can click and jump from one video to the other and the song continue 'seamlessly'

For me it buffers a lot when switching so it doesn't keep the rhythm and the syncing is wasted.

And I have a pretty good internet connection. I never get buffering on youtube.

Anyway, great idea.

Weird, it’s working ok for me on shitty mobile

Thank you! I was vaguely aware that something good and artsy was happening, but was not quite aware of what that was.

Works great on iPhone. Wonderful idea.

Very cool.

And it can be extended further by adding videos from exploring the website itself ;))

Love the idea, not sure I quite understand the obsession with this song.

They're good songs, Brent.

I guess the "infinite" part is the load time.

It says sorry. And that I should refresh.

This is beautiful

I get about 8 frames per second on this site. I don't understand how websites are built so badly these days.

In a word? Abstraction. In two words? Abstraction and apathy.

There is good abstractions and bad abstractions.

And that's where apathy plays in.

How do you think the creator of the site would feel reading this comment?

Hopefully retrospective

Closed - Won't Fix

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Take the time while it's buffering/whatever and enjoy the world.

As others have commented, mobile browsers appear to work well. Or disable plugins.

Testing websites in the the web browser ecosystem is a tedious job.

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