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Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by gwbas1c »

printscreen wrote: post #23
yreg wrote: post #18

I really dislike that after clicking `Start Listening Free` there is no way to get back to the home page. https://www.flowful.app/ redirects to https://www.flowful.app/player after that.

I figured people wouldn't want to keep navigating the landing page after they had already seen it once. This way you can just head straight back into the app. An incognito tab will let you see it again though.

It's important to get back to your homepage that isn't the app: Especially once you add things like "about," "careers," "contact," ect.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by 9TRHEsEdDwZAySX »

printscreen wrote: post #42
LAC-Tech wrote: post #36

What's the copyright on this - could I use it for twitch streams?

I own the copyright. Would prefer if you attribute, but don't mind you using it.

IANAL but that is not the impression I get from reading your terms and conditions.

> Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

A comment on HN is not "expresly provided in these Terms of Use" and don't think would constitute "express prior written permission." If you want to let people use it in their streams you might want to update the language there.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by printscreen »

memorable wrote: post #39

I got an error while trying this on Firefox (Librewolf): Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). Checking the console doesn't produce anything helpful either. Edit: While inspecting the page, I found that there are a total of 28 different inline CSS styles. Some of them are empty, and some contains styles for class with random names. I assume this is jus…

Ah okay - was it just when playing a track? Can't seem to reproduce.

And yeah, the CSS is quite messy. Planning on code cleanup later on. For reference, it's a mix'n'match between Chakra UI and Tailwind CSS.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by BrainVirus »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #46
BrainVirus wrote: post #43

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> What problem does this solve? Is that always the point?

Our society is currently suffocating in the endless torrent of information and pointless products. Just because you aren't interested in thinking about costs of things doesn't mean they don't have costs. So yes, I want to know what is the benefit.

Any thinking predicated on the notion that we should just gouge ourselves on endless amount of stuff (services, products, information) without asking any questions is faulty at best.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by tgv »

printscreen wrote: post #5
bambax wrote: post #2

This is really good! Congrats! I make algorithmic (infinite) music in a DAW (Reaper) and have been thinking about porting some of it to the browser, but didn't actually do anything about it :-( Can you describe the architecture a little? Are you using the Web Audio API for the instruments (and timing)? Are tracks static/looping, or dynamic (created on the fly based on random parameters)?

Yeah sure - you're right, it's using a lib built on top of the Web Audio API called Tone Js. This handles scheduling and some instruments, but the sounds themselves are mostly samples which I record myself from VSTs, then do things in the browser such as filter modulation so that they sound different over time. When a track loads for you, that's the samples being loaded in from cloud storage. As for static vs dynamic…

I quite like the way it sounds. Randomness is difficult, indeed. If you ever want to look at something less random: 1/f noise generates more interesting sequences than white or pink noise.
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