31 Oct
2012
31 Oct
'12
10:15 p.m.
Hey, list,
I'll just say this one last time in a separate thread and close the topic
once and for all, because it makes me feel like a complaining old man.
I know many of you use soundcloud to share and distribute your material,
and I certainly can understand why, since SC seems to offer a very
convenient platform to do so and facilitate exposure and feedback from
others. No trouble there; maybe I'll jump on board the soundcloud train
if and when I ever have any audio worth sharing.
Now, as you all know, soundcloud uses a flash-based player and does not
seem to allow direct download by default. As a result, should I wish to
sample material posted on soundcloud I need to 1) fire up GNOME, 2) fire
up Orca, 3) fire up iceweasel, 4) memorise and copy the URL, 5) plug
some headphones in my computer's on-board sound interface, because audio
doesn't play through my main JACK setup, 6) wrestle with the partially
accessible SC flash player. This is my personal experience, but I know
from previous threads that other users on this list face at least some
of the same issues. I therefore think many on this list would be more
likely to comment on shared material if direct links were provided or
if, at least, direct download were enabled on soundcloud.
Most of you have amazing material to share: please don't lock yourselves
into a platform!
All right, I rest my case.
Happy Halloween to all!
Cheers,
S.M.
31 Oct
31 Oct
10:38 p.m.
Only two comments to that for now:
1. The default Soundcloud widget is HTML5 since the beginning of the year.
2. Downloading can easily be enabled for every track, but this is of
course the choice of the user. As it is his choice to use Soundcloud
which is actually a very convenient platform, but I can imagine that
there might be accessibility problems … I have no experience with
that, though. But perhaps it might help you to know that the widgets
should be HTML5 and not Flash? I don’t know …
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
2012/10/31 S. Massy <lists(a)wolfdream.ca>ca>:
Hey, list,
I'll just say this one last time in a separate thread and close the topic
once and for all, because it makes me feel like a complaining old man.
I know many of you use soundcloud to share and distribute your material,
and I certainly can understand why, since SC seems to offer a very
convenient platform to do so and facilitate exposure and feedback from
others. No trouble there; maybe I'll jump on board the soundcloud train
if and when I ever have any audio worth sharing.
Now, as you all know, soundcloud uses a flash-based player and does not
seem to allow direct download by default. As a result, should I wish to
sample material posted on soundcloud I need to 1) fire up GNOME, 2) fire
up Orca, 3) fire up iceweasel, 4) memorise and copy the URL, 5) plug
some headphones in my computer's on-board sound interface, because audio
doesn't play through my main JACK setup, 6) wrestle with the partially
accessible SC flash player. This is my personal experience, but I know
from previous threads that other users on this list face at least some
of the same issues. I therefore think many on this list would be more
likely to comment on shared material if direct links were provided or
if, at least, direct download were enabled on soundcloud.
Most of you have amazing material to share: please don't lock yourselves
into a platform!
All right, I rest my case.
Happy Halloween to all!
Cheers,
S.M.
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11:39 p.m.
On 01/11/12 08:37, Peter Crighton wrote:
Only two comments to that for now:
1. The default Soundcloud widget is HTML5 since the beginning of the year.
It's worth noting that Soundcloud HTML5 player only actually uses HTML5
when the browser supports MP3, which is notably not the case in Firefox
or Chromium (though Google's official Chrome builds do include it). If
you open a Soundcloud stream on one of those browsers, it'll still use
Flash.
At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the
same way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash
elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in
Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far
refused to support them.
Personally, I'm really hoping the new Opus codec sees wide adoption
among browser makers. I wouldn't normally be optimistic about an open
codec gaining support from the likes of Apple or MS, but it's currently
a mandatory part of the WebRTC spec, so there's some slim hope that we
may in future be able to use one streaming format for all HTML5 browsers.
Thanks
Leigh
1 Nov
1 Nov
5:07 p.m.
Ah sorry, I didn’t know that, Chrome user here.
And I also didn’t know that you work for Bandcamp … that’s cool!
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http://www.petercrighton.de
2012/10/31 Leigh Dyer <lsd(a)wootangent.net>et>:
On 01/11/12 08:37, Peter Crighton wrote:
Only two comments to that for now:
1. The default Soundcloud widget is HTML5 since the beginning of the year.
It's worth noting that Soundcloud HTML5 player only actually uses HTML5 when
the browser supports MP3, which is notably not the case in Firefox or
Chromium (though Google's official Chrome builds do include it). If you open
a Soundcloud stream on one of those browsers, it'll still use Flash.
At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the same
way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash
elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in
Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far refused
to support them.
Personally, I'm really hoping the new Opus codec sees wide adoption among
browser makers. I wouldn't normally be optimistic about an open codec
gaining support from the likes of Apple or MS, but it's currently a
mandatory part of the WebRTC spec, so there's some slim hope that we may in
future be able to use one streaming format for all HTML5 browsers.
Thanks
Leigh
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2 Nov
2 Nov
2:43 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012, at 22:39, Leigh Dyer wrote:
At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the
same way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash
elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in
Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far
refused to support them.
Is it not an option to serve both formats to satisfy both vorbis and
mp3-capable browsers? Just curious about the perspective of someone
working in the area. I work as a web developer but my work doesn't have
much to do with audio, though I hope that will change one day.
Thanks,
Michał
3 Nov
3 Nov
11:28 a.m.
On 3/11/12 12:43 AM, Michał Koziarski wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012, at 22:39, Leigh Dyer wrote:
It's definitely an option, yep, but it's a trade-off -- that means
hosting twice as many files as you'd need otherwise, using twice as much
storage as you'd use otherwise. I've actually done that on my blog,
where I host a few of my own tracks, but when you have millions tracks
to host -- and to re-encode in to a new format -- it's easier said than
done.
Thanks
Leigh
At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the
same way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash
elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in
Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far
refused to support them.
Is it not an option to serve both formats to satisfy both vorbis and
mp3-capable browsers? Just curious about the perspective of someone
working in the area. I work as a web developer but my work doesn't have
much to do with audio, though I hope that will change one day. 
11:55 a.m.
On 3 November 2012 11:28, Leigh Dyer <lsd(a)wootangent.net> wrote:
On 3/11/12 12:43 AM, Michał Koziarski wrote:
No no no, it's just as easy, just expensive ;)
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012, at 22:39, Leigh Dyer wrote:
It's definitely an option, yep, but it's a trade-off -- that means hosting
twice as many files as you'd need otherwise, using twice as much storage as
you'd use otherwise. I've actually done that on my blog, where I host a few
of my own tracks, but when you have millions tracks to host -- and to
re-encode in to a new format -- it's easier said than done.
At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the
same way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash
elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in
Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far
refused to support them.
Is it not an option to serve both formats to satisfy both vorbis and
mp3-capable browsers? Just curious about the perspective of someone
working in the area. I work as a web developer but my work doesn't have
much to do with audio, though I hope that will change one day.
4 Nov
4 Nov
4:10 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012, at 10:28, Leigh Dyer wrote:
It's definitely an option, yep, but it's a trade-off -- that means
hosting twice as many files as you'd need otherwise, using twice as much
storage as you'd use otherwise. I've actually done that on my blog,
where I host a few of my own tracks, but when you have millions tracks
to host -- and to re-encode in to a new format -- it's easier said than
done.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
By the way, have you guys heard about the official.fm js implementations
of flac, mp3, aac and alac, http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ ? That looks
promising in principle, as a way to overcome the lack of browser codec
support. I tried it briefly though and their demos didn't work smoothly
at all, admittedly on a rather slow computer.
Michał
5 Nov
5 Nov
12:13 a.m.
On 5/11/12 2:10 AM, Michał Koziarski wrote:
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012, at 10:28, Leigh Dyer wrote:
Yep, I've had a play with those -- it's awesome to think that JS is now
fast enough to decode audio in realtime, but as you've discovered, it's
not quite practical yet. On my PC, decoding MP3 in Firefox works well
enough as long as you keep that window/tab in the foreground, but it
starts skipping once you switch to another tab; my guess is that Firefox
has some JS performance throttling that kicks in to prevent background
tabs from using all of your CPU cycles.
Thanks
Leigh
It's definitely an option, yep, but it's a trade-off -- that means
hosting twice as many files as you'd need otherwise, using twice as much
storage as you'd use otherwise. I've actually done that on my blog,
where I host a few of my own tracks, but when you have millions tracks
to host -- and to re-encode in to a new format -- it's easier said than
done.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
By the way, have you guys heard about the official.fm js implementations
of flac, mp3, aac and alac, http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ ? That looks
promising in principle, as a way to overcome the lack of browser codec
support. I tried it briefly though and their demos didn't work smoothly
at all, admittedly on a rather slow computer.
Michał
12:15 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Leigh Dyer <lsd(a)wootangent.net> wrote:
By the way, have you guys heard about the official.fm js implementations
it seemed exciting until i tried it on 6 different mp3 files here, only to
be told that it couldn't recognize any of them.
of flac, mp3, aac and alac,
http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ ? That looks
promising in principle, as a way to overcome the lack of browser codec
support. I tried it briefly though and their demos didn't work smoothly
at all, admittedly on a rather slow computer.
31 Oct
31 Oct
10:38 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:14 PM, S. Massy <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
I'll just say this one last time in a separate
thread and close the topic
once and for all, because it makes me feel like a complaining old man.
You'll be happy to know that Soundcloud is implementing a new
interface that is not flash-based (and pressing space will enable the
player once the URL is loaded). Not sure when it is going to be
available, though, I believe it's in a beta phase and some users are
already signed up for it.
Anything I release under Creative Commons I allow direct downloads for
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
10:52 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Brett McCoy wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:14 PM, S. Massy
<lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
That's very good, and I'm glad to know it.
I'll just say this one last time in a
separate thread and close the topic
once and for all, because it makes me feel like a complaining old man.
You'll be happy to know that Soundcloud is implementing a new
interface that is not flash-based (and pressing space will enable the
player once the URL is loaded). Not sure when it is going to be
available, though, I believe it's in a beta phase and some users are
already signed up for it.
Anything I release under Creative Commons I allow direct downloads for
Sure. This
was by no means intended to be a criticism of your decision,
or anyone else's for that matter: it was more meant to be a public
statement/reminder. It seems any time someone posts something on
soundcloud, someone else replies asking for a direct link or sayint that
the player or audio doesn't work. I figured it would be good to make
everyone aware of the possible difficulties associated with SC material.
Cheers,
S.M.
11 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:52 PM, S. Massy <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
Sure. This was by no means intended to be a criticism
of your decision,
or anyone else's for that matter: it was more meant to be a public
statement/reminder. It seems any time someone posts something on
soundcloud, someone else replies asking for a direct link or sayint that
the player or audio doesn't work. I figured it would be good to make
everyone aware of the possible difficulties associated with SC material.
I am also planning on putting material up on archive.org. One minor issue I
have had with soundcloud is the MP3 encoding introduces artifacts
occasionally on material that has quieter passages with instruments in the
higher register (like woodwinds). Luckily, if I upload a WAV, it will keep
that as the download file while having the lower quality MP3 for playback
on the site. archive.org will let me have multiple formats online,
including FLAC and OGG.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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would overturn the world."
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