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Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by melbourne_mat »

As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be difficult to pay for.

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by sitkack »

melbourne_mat wrote: post #3

As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be difficult to pay for.

There are inbrowser tracker file players, esp with Wasm rendering could be done client side. That said, with super low bitrate codecs from Xiph it might be much much simpler to encode once and ship the compressed song. Sending the tracker files means that it can be much easier to visualize and slow down playback.

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by codetrotter »

melbourne_mat wrote: post #3

As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be difficult to pay for.

For anyone that just wants to listen to the music in the collection I recommend installing the iOS app 4champ

https://4champ.net/

https://apps.apple.com/app/4champ/id578311010

And going to radio mode and toggling it to Radio ON.

This immediately starts streaming music from Amiga Music Preservation and playing it.

The iOS app also runs on macOS, although its UI is not ideal for use on a computer as it is more geared towards touch screens. I mainly use it on my iPhone for this reason, much more than I use it on my MacBook Pro M1.

One final note about the music player 4champ: It's generally a good player and I listen a lot using it, but it sorely lacks a "previous song" function in Radio mode. So if it plays a good tune and you don't favorite the tune while is playing, or make note of the name of it and its artist, you will have effectively no way of finding that song again. But other than this it's a solid player.

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by squarefoot »

codetrotter wrote: post #2

Seems that a HN filter intended for Google AMP is triggered by the URL and changes it. But amp in this URL has nothing to do with Google AMP. The url is supposed to be http://amp.dascene.net/home.php @dang, can you override the change of the url so it's correct?

Direct address in the meantime:

http://109.190.61.142/home.php

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by codetrotter »

squarefoot wrote: post #6
codetrotter wrote: post #2

Seems that a HN filter intended for Google AMP is triggered by the URL and changes it. But amp in this URL has nothing to do with Google AMP. The url is supposed to be http://amp.dascene.net/home.php @dang, can you override the change of the url so it's correct?

Direct address in the meantime: http://109.190.61.142/home.php

Clever :)

I am too used to many sites sharing a single IP address that I didn’t even think about doing it that way.

Re: Amiga Music Preservation

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Post by rasz »

sitkack wrote: post #4
melbourne_mat wrote: post #3

As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be difficult to pay for.

There are inbrowser tracker file players, esp with Wasm rendering could be done client side. That said, with super low bitrate codecs from Xiph it might be much much simpler to encode once and ship the compressed song. Sending the tracker files means that it can be much easier to visualize and slow down playback.

MOD trackers worked fine on 8MHz systems, there is no need for WASM here. https://warpdesign.github.io/modplayer-js/
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