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Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by padenot »

b1ake wrote: post #15
carlesfe wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second that. Flash does not work well for me, a fully functional HTML5 version would totally get my money.

Yeah we like HTML5 / WebRTC a lot better too. In Chrome, Instinct actually uses WebRTC instead of flash to access the mic. We had a few issues with Firefox WebRTC though, still trying to work through those.

Would you mind telling me your issues? I'm a Firefox dev, working on getUserMedia/Web audio api. I'm sure we can fix them so that Firefox users can enjoy your app without flash as well. I'm padenot at mozilla dot com, or padenot on Twitter.

Great app anyhow!

Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by Killswitch »

b1ake wrote: post #5
Killswitch wrote: post #4

How do you even play the demo? I move my mouse and the hand moves with it, and it tells me to play the string, but I click, hold, press buttons, the hand just moves and nothing happens... A help screen would be very beneficial...

Ah in demo mode, just move the mouse over the highlighted strings at the bottom and they will play. No need to click or anything.

Did that, nothing happened. Just air guitar like a gangsta.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by b1ake »

padenot wrote: post #21
b1ake wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah we like HTML5 / WebRTC a lot better too. In Chrome, Instinct actually uses WebRTC instead of flash to access the mic. We had a few issues with Firefox WebRTC though, still trying to work through those.

Would you mind telling me your issues? I'm a Firefox dev, working on getUserMedia/Web audio api. I'm sure we can fix them so that Firefox users can enjoy your app without flash as well. I'm padenot at mozilla dot com, or padenot on Twitter. Great app anyhow!

Hey, thx for writing! So the Firefox issue is that the browser asks for microphone approval on every lesson, which can get a little annoying as a user. Is there a way to get Firefox to ask only once and remember what the user chooses?

To see what happens, try a few lessons in real guitar mode on our staging box. This box allows getUserMedia() even for FF:

https://stage.getinstinct.net

(also just a heads up that our staging box is small, so if a lot of people hit it, it might get slow)

Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by b1ake »

Killswitch wrote: post #22
b1ake wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah in demo mode, just move the mouse over the highlighted strings at the bottom and they will play. No need to click or anything.

Did that, nothing happened. Just air guitar like a gangsta.

Haha, sorry about that, probably a bug.

If you don't mind sending us OS / browser / version + the lesson you played, we can try to debug. Our email is hello@getinstinct.com.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by sliverstorm »

it_learnses wrote: post #11
b1ake wrote: post #2

We first launched here on HN 1.5 years ago, and we're pretty excited to share v2. Our goal with Instinct is to add deep interactivity to any music lesson. We think that one day, every lesson on YouTube might have pitch detection, scrolling notation, a scoring system and personalized feedback. This v2 is a big first step in that direction. We've teamed up with a bunch of online teachers to create fully interactive vid…

I bought a guitar 3 years ago and I've tried to learn it on and off but never really went past the c chord because I always lose interest. I just finished my first lesson and this is superb for me. I love the scoring system which motivates me to try and do better each time and just the ease and simplicity with which I can immerse myself into learning it at my own pace. Just a minor thing that confused me was that the…

Have you ever heard of Rocksmith?

Re: Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection

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Post by padenot »

b1ake wrote: post #23
padenot wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind telling me your issues? I'm a Firefox dev, working on getUserMedia/Web audio api. I'm sure we can fix them so that Firefox users can enjoy your app without flash as well. I'm padenot at mozilla dot com, or padenot on Twitter. Great app anyhow!

Hey, thx for writing! So the Firefox issue is that the browser asks for microphone approval on every lesson, which can get a little annoying as a user. Is there a way to get Firefox to ask only once and remember what the user chooses? To see what happens, try a few lessons in real guitar mode on our staging box. This box allows getUserMedia() even for FF: https://stage.getinstinct.net (also just a heads up that our s…

So, this is known, and tracked in our bug tracker [1]. In the meantime, you can ask your users to use the drop-down in the doorhanger (the little panel that come down), they can whitelist your site this way (it says: "always share with this website" or something).

As you see in the bug (and in a duplicate [2]), this behaviour may change in the future. As you can understand, this need to be changed with care, it's rather easy to screw up, and could have serious privacy implication for our users (of course, your use case it absolutly legit, but websites get hacked, and some website are clearly malicious).

In general, if you want to talk to the team because you suspect a bug in Firefox, or anything, really, come in #media on irc.mozilla.org, or come and talk to us on the dev-media mailing list [3]. We don't bite, and love to hear about the crazy stuff people make with our APIs :-).

Keep up the good work !

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819413

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893945

[3]: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media

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