[linux-audio-user] The Open Loop Library, a few questions

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:45:27 -0700, Darren Landrum wrote:
> Something else I've been thinking about is a low-quality "preview" that 
> can work inside a browser, so folks can listen to the contents of a 
> loop before they download. This would be another good reason for a 
> dedicated client, since the preview function could be built-in. The 
> hard part would be generating the preview to begin with. Could this be 
> a server-side function (i.e., when you upload the file, it makes the 
> preview file as a 24kbps Ogg or somesuch)? Any thoughts?

Dedicated clients are bad, this can be made to work in a browser easily.

It wouldn't be hard to add a script to the server to make it produce
preview versions of the file.

I can donate bandwidth, server space, metadata and/or database experience,
but not much time :(

- Steve