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

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BrainVirus wrote: post #43

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What problem does this solve: Poor playlists / context switching when you get given something distracting in an ambient music recommendation algorithm. Also, hopefully, it's just nice music to listen to.

You are listening to the music of other people - mine. I made the generators, which were not trained on anyone else's music. It does not 'process tracks that were made by real people'. The paid element of this service goes to me, without X streaming service taking any cuts.

Computer-made generative music has been around since at least the 70's. Outstanding human-made ambient works have been made since then, which people love and continue to listen to. If this draws some attention away from 'actual musicians', then I'm sure they will survive.

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

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Post by printscreen »

degenerate wrote: post #40
printscreen wrote: post #23

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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.

I prefer to see how "deep" a product will let me go (without hitting a regwall) before reading about it. After I've tested out the gatekeeping, I go back to the homepage to learn more about the product. But my personal use case aside -- if people want to see the homepage again for any reason, like contacting you, or linking to a friend -- you are blocking that ability.

You all made good points - I've removed the redirect. You should now be able to go back to the homepage.

I was modelling it after Notion's homepage, where you just want to go back to your workspace when you go to notion.so, not the landing page. But I'll put some more thought into how it can be done less cruedly.

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

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Post by green-eclipse »

Absolutely love this concept. One issue I'm having after listening for a while to a variety of the channels is that the music is all pretty "sad."

I don't know enough about music theory to give you more detail than that, but is there a way you can add more upbeat songs, to get my mood up, energy up, motivation kicking in? Listening to these, I kind of want to take a nap.

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

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Post by printscreen »

green-eclipse wrote: post #57

Absolutely love this concept. One issue I'm having after listening for a while to a variety of the channels is that the music is all pretty "sad." I don't know enough about music theory to give you more detail than that, but is there a way you can add more upbeat songs, to get my mood up, energy up, motivation kicking in? Listening to these, I kind of want to take a nap.

Yeah I have heard this before actually. The next few tracks that I make will be in a Major key, which should help!

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

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Post by mortenjorck »

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)?

I'm looking for a good tool and stack for this too, along with algorithmic visuals.

I have a synesthesia-themed project (https://testfixture.presteign.com) where I currently make all the audio with generative synthesis in a DAW and the visuals by hand in a design package, but I'd love to branch out into fully-procedural at some point.

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