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

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Post by GuiA »

sologoub wrote: post #38
dpcan wrote: post #33

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…

I'm in the same skill-level as you are, but I had a completely opposite reaction. For me, this was amazing because it distilled how something as hard as the example is played and can be learned.

A great piece of software in the same space as SoundSlice is Capo:

http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/

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

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Post by jdunck »

adrianh wrote: post #20
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 i…

2-finger scroll: I'm pretty sure this happens when there are no unscrolled bars under the cursor - so how about an old-school JS hack (remember those?):

1) put the annotation inside a container (and make that position:relative); annotation position:absolute, right:0px; 2) autoscroll the container 3) add some JS to infinitely increase the width of the container on a left-ish mouse move. (I think this will still work even if the container is, itself, in a cropping container.

I suspect the result will be that 2-finger left swipe will be like quicksand - no apparent movement. Kind of sucks, but less than losing your page.

An alternative would be to make history back/forward suck less: keep the display state in local storage and render a page just as it was the last time a person saw it (in terms of time display, modes, and selections).

Probably that's a useful thing to do anyway and has Least Surprise in its side.

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

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Post by rprasad »

jdunck wrote: post #40
sharkweek wrote: post #9

This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you plan on handling copyright down the road? 2nd edit: Feature request, if you hover over chords, it'd be cool if it showed the finger placement

Copyright: YouTube is the host and already has well-formed copyright/takedown/safe harbor policies. The transcription/tab output itself can not be copyright - sweat of the brow. There is the question of whether a useful user resource can be maintained if/when the host video is taken down - can the tab stand alone without the original audio? I think so - reduced utility, of course, but legally on solid ground and stil…

Sweat of the brow is not currently and never has been a defense to copyright. Otherwise, copyright on books could be evaded by simply copying a book word for word.

The original composer owns the copyright on the arrangement itself. Your imperfect transcription is a separate derivative work but is still subject to the copyright of the original.

So the question remains: how do you plan on dealing with the copyright issues?

But if you can survive the copyright issues, the site itself is impressive.

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

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Post by rbdone »

GuiA wrote: post #41
sologoub wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same skill-level as you are, but I had a completely opposite reaction. For me, this was amazing because it distilled how something as hard as the example is played and can be learned.

A great piece of software in the same space as SoundSlice is Capo: http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/

Does Capo have an easy way to share your tabs synced all synced to music?

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

#45

Post by Breakthrough »

saturdayplace wrote: post #18

This is a solution to a problem I didn't even know I had until I played with it. Well done!

Same here. Long gone are the days of me queuing up the song I want to attempt to jam to, then having to find the tabs somewhere (I just play once in a while for fun, I can't read chords), and struggle through it...

This seems like an intuitive and logical approach to learning both how to play particular songs, as well as improving tempo comprehension. Well done, I'm quite impressed with my Soundslice experience thus far!

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

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Post by bockris »

richbradshaw wrote: post #27

On Chrome 25.0.1323.1 dev on OSX the Youtube video is completely broken, just slightly off horizontal stripes of colour. I doubt anyone else is getting that, but you might get bug reports about it.

Some videos cause that for me also. (Windows Chrome 25.0.1323.1 dev-m)

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

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Post by bdr »

adrianh wrote: post #20
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 i…

Calling preventDefault on the mousewheel event stops swipe navigation in Chrome. You may want to restrict this to when the tab pane's scroll position is 0.

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

#49

Post by nsedlet »

A killer feature would be auto-generation of the tab from the audio. Then you'd instantly have tons of content.

Does anyone know if this is remotely possible? I messed around briefly with this a while back, and I remember it being very difficult to get a note (much less a chord) from a noisy signal.

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