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I really like this, I had a similar idea a few years ago with 'YouLink' - essentially solving the playlist problem of YouTube - but I didn't think of making such a simple and clean execution. Mine was more Youtube meets iTunes style - pre Spotify days.

Plus back then, bandwidth was not so great / YouTube often buffered causing breaks in the music. So I abandoned the project.

However Roll.io is a great solution, often I have the situation where I have a track listing for something that I can find individual songs for on youtube, but need to quickly make a playlist out of it, but don't due to the horrible youtube playlist interface.

This is especially true when it comes to 'Remixed' music where the songs have particular unique names. e.g. http://roll.io/#4fvjsj!0

Thanks for making it. The only request I would have would be to automatically remove or recognise track listing numbers at the start of the tracks.

E.g. if I copy a track listing I often have: 1. SongA 2. SongB 3. SongC 4. SongD

- It is a slight pain to manually remove the 1., 2., 3., 4. from the front and may cause incorrect matching on the songs if I leave them on.



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