simonandClaude Opus 5
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Two frontends sharing one WebSocket-backed state on the server: - Player: fullscreen poster background with a small frame (30% of the screen) that drifts diagonally and reflects off the edges. Two stacked YouTube players hand over with a 5s equal-power crossfade so there is never silence between tracks. - Queue: add by URL, drag to reorder, delete, click to jump. Shows title and length per item, highlights what is playing, and tracks remaining vs. total playtime. No API key is required — titles come from YouTube's oEmbed endpoint and durations from a hidden muted probe player that cues each new video just to read its length. The fade is driven by both requestAnimationFrame and the interval tick: a hidden or throttled tab stops serving frames entirely, which would otherwise strand a handover half-faded with two tracks audible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Tg15tLAuT6NrCE1ZxKVgDB
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Party Player
A YouTube playlist player for parties. Two browser windows run side by side:
- Player (
http://localhost:3000/) — fullscreen poster background with a small video frame drifting diagonally and bouncing off the edges. Consecutive videos overlap in a 5 second audio/video crossfade, so there is never silence between tracks. - Queue (
http://localhost:3000/queue) — add videos by URL, drag to reorder, delete, and see how much playtime is left.
Run
npm install
npm start
Put the player on the projector/TV screen (F11 for fullscreen) and open the
queue on a laptop or phone. On the same network, other devices reach both pages
at http://<this-machine-ip>:3000.
The player page opens behind a "Start" button. Browsers block unmuted autoplay, so the first click is what unlocks audio. One click per session.
Notes
- No YouTube API key is needed. Titles come from YouTube's public oEmbed
endpoint; durations are measured by a hidden muted player on the player page,
which is why a freshly added video shows
–:––for a moment (and keeps showing it while the player page is closed). Totals are prefixed with≥whenever a length is still unknown. - The queue is saved to
queue.jsonon every change and restored at startup. - Settings live in
config.js: overlap length, frame size, drift speed, port, and the selectable backgrounds.
Adding animations
#frameMover carries only the motion transform (see public/player/motion.js).
#frameSkin inside it is the cosmetic layer, and the two video decks sit inside
that. New effects should nest a fresh wrapper rather than sharing a transform
with the bounce loop.