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Re: The sound of GitHub

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Post by alexdong »

A bit more background on this project for those curious minds:

Aldo and I each wrote a blog post on why we are building this:

http://beachmonks.com/posts/intro/choir.html

http://beachmonks.com/posts/explained/choir-explained.html

We've been slowly onboarding brave alpha users. We want to learn as much as we can from these early adopters, and plan to share our results in the form of short interviews published on our blog.

The first of these - with Ryan Baker of Timely - is up now.

http://beachmonks.com/posts/interviews/timely/that-siren-sou...

Re: The sound of GitHub

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Post by alexdong »

CrLf wrote: post #12

What's up with this trend of doing stuff that only works on Chrome? On Firefox this works for a minute and then stops working.

Hey, that's not quite true. ;-)

I wrote most of our javascript on firefox. My firefox has no add-ons except the Firebug. Could it be one of your extensions? Have you tried refreshing it? Which version/OS?

We use howler.js to play the sounds. I have to say that I was a bit surprised to find Chrome/Safari/IE can play mp3 but Firefox plays ogg. I even had to submit a patch[1] so that howler.js can work on firefox under some weird edge cases.

[1]: https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js/pull/62

Re: The sound of GitHub

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Post by daw___ »

CrLf wrote: post #12

What's up with this trend of doing stuff that only works on Chrome? On Firefox this works for a minute and then stops working.

I'm running Firefox 23.0.1 on Linux, everything is fine.

Re: The sound of GitHub

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Post by Void_ »

You know how computer always makes some sort of sound in a Hollywood movie? I always liked that.

And from all software with sound effects, this is the closest to useful. Good job.

Re: The sound of GitHub

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Post by trycatch »

alexdong wrote: post #13
CrLf wrote: post #12

What's up with this trend of doing stuff that only works on Chrome? On Firefox this works for a minute and then stops working.

Hey, that's not quite true. ;-) I wrote most of our javascript on firefox. My firefox has no add-ons except the Firebug. Could it be one of your extensions? Have you tried refreshing it? Which version/OS? We use howler.js to play the sounds. I have to say that I was a bit surprised to find Chrome/Safari/IE can play mp3 but Firefox plays ogg. I even had to submit a patch[1] so that howler.js can work on firefox under…

I tried Linux x64/FF23 and FF Nightly on a clean profile, and both leaked insane amounts of memory on this page, hundreds of KiBs per second. Interesting that according to about:memory, memory used by tab with choir.io stayed stable, but "heap-unclassified" grew uncontrollable. Bug in Firefox?
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