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Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by tchock23 »

Wow - this is awesome. Well done!

Any plans to add lyrics to the annotations? It would be cool to be able to follow other contributors as well because some people are great at tabbing things out and others are terrible. Some sort of star rating on the quality of the tab (similar to UltimateGuitar) would be nice as well.

Also, small usability suggestion - I signed up and went looking for a way to start making annotations, but couldn't find it. It took me a while to realize I had to verify my email address before I could use the full capabilities of the site. It may be worth calling that out earlier on (or even skipping the email verification if you can).

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by fourneau »

adrianh wrote: post #6
ryanlbrown wrote: post #4

This is great. I would suggest one thing: try to make the scroll speed independent of screen size. I can't read the notes with a fully maximized window. Edit: found the zoom, but still, I shouldn't have to.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, coming up with the optimal initial zoom level is a tricky compromise. Still need to tweak it.

This is awesome on so many levels, being a youtube-taught guitar player, this is right up my alley.

Two suggestions: Definitely make scroll speed a setting (similar to how Rockband 'difficulty' is just them spacing things out further to make it harder) and maybe a slower example? A slower example might be friendlier to new players / more welcoming?

Edit: Also, when I signed up and checked out all the tabs... I ended up getting 'Video not available'. Not sure if that's regional settings kicking in (i.e Canada gets nothing)...

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by pserwylo »

adrianh wrote: post #8
mnicole wrote: post #7

This is so awesome, great job you two! Any plans for a keyboard version in the future or will this always strictly be guitar tabs?

Thanks! I definitely plan to add sheet music as a track type. It's significantly more complicated than tabs, so it didn't make it for launch -- but I'd love to serve all my musician brothers instead of just guitarists. :-)

This is great to hear. I've been thinking of picking up the guitar to try and learn again, but for the second coming try to ditch my tabs habit.

Thanks for the awesome tool.

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by shawndrost »

Wow -- amazing! My #1 feature request: annotate chords. I'm looking at Honey Pie, and trying to figure out how to play Eb9 by looking at your fingers.

Possible bug report: I couldn't figure out how to exit looping mode, and had to refresh the page.

Not sure if you can fix this: two-fingered left scrolling in the tab area activates my browser's "back" function.

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

#17

Post by jQueryIsAwesome »

Great! The ability to repeat the selected Chords is really nice. I would suggest adding real musical notation in another timeline (to help people that are learning it).

BTW, I'm getting a console error in some few videos: Cannot read property 'player' of undefined

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by adrianh »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #17

Great! The ability to repeat the selected Chords is really nice. I would suggest adding real musical notation in another timeline (to help people that are learning it). BTW, I'm getting a console error in some few videos: Cannot read property 'player' of undefined

Thank you! Yes, standard notation is on the to-do list. It's obviously much more complicated than tabs, so I opted not to do it for launch.

Is the console error happening consistently for certain videos, or is it sporadic?

Re: Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5

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Post by adrianh »

shawndrost wrote: post #16

Wow -- amazing! My #1 feature request: annotate chords. I'm looking at Honey Pie, and trying to figure out how to play Eb9 by looking at your fingers. Possible bug report: I couldn't figure out how to exit looping mode, and had to refresh the page. Not sure if you can fix this: two-fingered left scrolling in the tab area activates my browser's "back" function.

Thank you! Yes, a few of the videos have chords marked on tab tracks (e.g., "Chord fingering" on http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/) but I'm planning to add a first-class chord track type.

To exit looping mode, just press Pause? Or were you just trying to clear a selection? (If the latter, just click anywhere in the timeline canvas.)

I have searched high and low for a fix to that two-fingered left scrolling in Chrome, and there doesn't appear to be a way to fix it. :-( If anybody knows, please tell me!

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