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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 saraid216 »

rorrr wrote: post #97

I press the round play button, and nothing happens. Chrome 23, Win7 here. Here's the JS error: Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'playVideo' soundslice.min-f58020e4af284a830f36ea5da581a066.js:73

I think something got changed in the last 30 minutes or so. I had it loaded fine, let it run forever because Mario is hypnotic, then went to look at some of the others and got this.

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

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Post by pjmacklin »

peteTorrione wrote: post #26
peteTorrione wrote: post #24

Looks great. Definitely needs a copy/paste functionality. I tried to tab "blitzkrieg bop" (for the obvious reasons), and without copy/paste it's not so fun. But great site overall!

Also, I'm constantly clicking to add multiple notes in one section, but clicking just moves the time in the editor, until magically i convince it that i want to add another note in the tab... I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

PJ here, Soundslice designer. I'm pretty sure your issue is that to add a note, you have to hover over the particular string you want to add the note to while you have a selection. You can also press 'A' to add a note to the next available string. Does that help?

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

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Post by tadruj »

Awesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast, you also make the last one sticky on the edge. PageScroll is OK. I hope you make 5 string version for Banjo soon :) Good luck.

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

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Post by pjmacklin »

ronyeh wrote: post #53

This is awesome. One bit of feedback: It'd be cool to have some fixed area on the screen where you are showing the current chord (in a big font), while the video is playing. In the Super Mario example: http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/ It's tough for me to follow the tab while it's scrolling rapidly by... so I'd like to see a big A7 / B / etc. on the top right corner of the screen, so I can follow along with…

PJ here, Soundslice UI designer. Thanks for the feedback! I really like the idea of displaying the current chord somewhere, and in fact, we talked about doing something along these lines. That's something I'd like to include in the future.

As for the rapid scrolling, I usually zoom out on the timeline which causes the playhead to move slower.

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

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Post by Zombieball »

adrianh wrote: post #100
Zombieball wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same problem here. I wouldnt say that the animation is jerky but just that everything blends into a long motion blur. MacbookPro 2012. Tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Sorry about that -- try changing "scrolling" from Autoscroll to Paged, and that should fix it.

Ah cool, didn't notice that first time around. I'd suggest paged be the default.

Looks great!

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

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Post by mutagen »

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…

Tablature copyright is generally owned by a publishing company, often protecting rights to tab books. Read up on the history of the OnLine Guitar Archive [1] (OLGA), one of the first internet copyright fights I became aware of a couple of years after I got online. Despite the fact that these were user created and shared tabs, often of middling quality, EMI felt they owned copyright and pursued various incarnations of the archive for years. The current crop of ugly, SEO spammed offshore tab and ringtone sites are the result instead of beautiful tools to learn music like Soundslice. Unless the creator has made agreements for publishing rights I'm afraid this great resource is going the way of so many before it while these copyright dinosaurs guard their last remaining treasure.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-line_Guitar_Archive

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

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Post by bburky »

Was just playing around with the YouTube JavaScript API myself, it's really not that complicated. You can do some pretty cool things with it. Looks like you're using the HTML5 YouTube player too, I haven't tried that.

I'm surprised by how rarely people integrate a YouTube player into sites, does anyone have any other good examples?

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