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Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by z92 » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:02 AM UTC

sahillavingia wrote: post #13

Here's my attempt at Mary Had A Little Lamb: http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs

Recording and playback only works when one is browsing from the USA. I have tried from both sides. Only after loading it from a USA IP it played back successfully.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by nostrademons » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:09 AM UTC

yahelc wrote: post #20

sahillavingia wrote: post #13

Here's my attempt at Mary Had A Little Lamb: http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs

Here's my shot at Heart and Soul. http://goo.gl/doodle/qyOQ

Handel Sonata: http://goo.gl/doodle/lAT0

Metallica: http://goo.gl/doodle/6H8G

Noodling around with some chords: http://goo.gl/doodle/KqQb

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by delinquentme » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:09 AM UTC

JonathanStanton wrote: post #25

Lean on Me: http://goo.gl/doodle/ubOZ

awesome!

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by delinquentme » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:11 AM UTC

catshirt wrote: post #15

somedude1234abc wrote: post #3

Is this made with javascript?

from a superficial look, it seems like the sound is actually being played through flash. it looks like the doodle is canvas though, which suggests the interface is in javascript. too bad they didn't synthesize the sound with javascript as well. their web audio api is great. firefox has a (somewhat) equivalent api. :)

it doesn't look very "flash"

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by barrkel » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:20 AM UTC

z92 wrote: post #31

sahillavingia wrote: post #13

Here's my attempt at Mary Had A Little Lamb: http://goo.gl/doodle/1tEs

Recording and playback only works when one is browsing from the USA. I have tried from both sides. Only after loading it from a USA IP it played back successfully.

I can confirm, doesn't work from UK IP but does work from USA.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by forgingahead » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:37 AM UTC

La Vie En Rose: http://goo.gl/doodle/gSAz

It stops recording after a bit - I had the whole song too! Haha this is great

*Edit: Last part to complete the song, because it was bugging me: http://goo.gl/doodle/aEl1

And, quickie Imperial March: http://goo.gl/doodle/D6ce

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by kprobst » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

leviathant wrote: post #5

kprobst wrote: post #4

It works on Chrome but not on Firefox. Interesting.

It works in my copy of FF4 on Win7.

Firefox 4.0.1 on Win7. No sound. Chrome works fine.

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by r00fus » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 5:49 AM UTC

kprobst wrote: post #4

It works on Chrome but not on Firefox. Interesting.

As other commenters mentioned, it requires flash for sound. Any flashblocker or clicktoflash will render the page mute (like on my Safari). Maybe you have one of those installed?

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by damncabbage » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 6:06 AM UTC

delinquentme wrote: post #34

catshirt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

from a superficial look, it seems like the sound is actually being played through flash. it looks like the doodle is canvas though, which suggests the interface is in javascript. too bad they didn't synthesize the sound with javascript as well. their web audio api is great. firefox has a (somewhat) equivalent api. :)

it doesn't look very "flash"

It creates a flash object on the fly with javascript:

Re: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

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Post by 51Cards » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 6:35 AM UTC

Adding another comment after my one below. I couldn't get the record button (just a keyboard button) and thought it might be because I am in Canada. To test I remoted into our server in Texas and opened the doodle from there... presto, a record button... on IE7 no less. Looks like Google is distributing different versions by region. Why? No clue.

Edit: This works on my Nexus One! Now THAT is cool.