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

Awesome! I coded this exact same concept about 4 years ago (livetabber.com... your name is better). I was really hoping somebody would do it for real.

Do you plan on adding functionality to help people create SoundSlices? I'll just list the features I put in the concept maybe you will find some useful.

* Ability to slow down the track to let the musician hear the notes more easily while transcribing. * Import existing ASCII tabs and input a BPM to create a base annotation that the user can then tweak. -2-4-7- gets imported differently than -247-. Does this by stretching the tab to fit the time of the song. This was very useful. * Attempted to do pitch detection and bpm detection... didn't work so well maybe tech has changed. * Show guitar fingerings. * Allow the user to "highlight" a portion of the song so that it will loop only that portion. This is useful for both annotating and learning. E.g. highlight the solo and slow it down to "hear" the notes better while annotating while looping it, or slowing it down to practice it repeatedly. * Use arbitrary formats as input (spotify, pandora, mp3 file, etc.)

Please kill GuitarPro and ASCII tabs for me :)

As a guitar player, I'm at the --- played it in my college dorm room, learned all the Nirvana songs --- level.

That being said, your "demos" on the home page are incredibly awesomely impressive. And..... way way way beyond where I will ever find the time to get to.

And when I clicked the "Play with an example" link I literally LOL'd!!!

I may have no idea who your target audience is, but from this example.... it's not me :/

If you wanted to inspire someone like me to run upstairs, grab my guitar, and come back to your site to try it out really quick - and probably get hooked, I would consider making one of your demos pretty dumb-simple, if you know what I mean. Something fun or well known, not copyrighted of course, but something I could accomplish right now with my guitar.

But maybe I'm not your customer, I don't know.

If I am, maybe consider 2 buttons: Beginner Example and Advanced Example.

Good luck, this looks awesome.

This is a great point. There's a (low) threshold on how many annotations need to be in a song before it shows up in "Latest by others" -- maybe a good quick fix would be to raise that.

How about letting users mark their annotations as complete/in progress or letting them estimate, e.g. 50% complete, 80% complete, 100% complete; something I could filter against.

(btw, awesome site)

Adrian: You should update your HN profile with links to Soundslice