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Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by haburka »

wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

Imo if you are using safari and you are playing a demo, you should expect the demo not to work. Safari is the new IE and most demos use advanced browser APIs that safari doesn't support. You shouldn't need an error message to understand that.

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by chicago_wade »

wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

It's telling me the same thing in Firefox.

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by bsder »

School-Cotton wrote: post #8
orf wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No? I hope you have a problem with the name "Guitar Hero" not being called "guitar being", "guitar person" or "guitar object" instead?

"Hero" is not gendered in modern colloquial English, at least according to my intuition.

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/katniss-everdeen-hollywood-her...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wonder-woman-heroine-post-truth-1...

Can go on ...

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

#24

Post by 1337biz »

aequitas wrote: post #16

Nice, but a little hard if you don't yet have chords associated by name and I'm missing background music/tempo to keep track. Personally I'm really fond of the Rocksmith game for learning guitar. It's like Guitar Hero, but with your own real guitar (and interactive lessons). I have no real ambition (or talent) for playing musical instruments, but somehow it lets me enjoy music interactively at my skill level while al…

Thanks for making me aware of Rocksmith. Wish there were more games which teach a real skill!

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by Spivak »

haburka wrote: post #21
wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

Imo if you are using safari and you are playing a demo, you should expect the demo not to work. Safari is the new IE and most demos use advanced browser APIs that safari doesn't support. You shouldn't need an error message to understand that.

And at the same time it seems that Chrome is also the new IE in that developers write applications that only work in Chrome. Not so different than web apps using ActiveX back in day.

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by shams93 »

wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

It needs getUserMedia but its slated to be in the next version of safari. Firefox and edge both support getUserMedia so there's no reason for the author to constrain the clients to chrome. If it were based on webmidi then that would be the case as only chrome supports webmidi but the author is only useing getUserMedia.

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by pls2halp »

haburka wrote: post #21
wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

Imo if you are using safari and you are playing a demo, you should expect the demo not to work. Safari is the new IE and most demos use advanced browser APIs that safari doesn't support. You shouldn't need an error message to understand that.

The list of APIs which Webkit doesn't support(at least in the preview version) is surprisingly small[1]

Chrome is a lot closer to IE in that it incorrectly implements standards to encourage developers and users to priorities it's platform(like a certain company[2])

[1] https://webkit.org/status/#?status=under%20consideration,in%...

[2] https://brattahlid.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/is-docx-really-a...

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

#28

Post by DrScump »

haburka wrote: post #21
wlesieutre wrote: post #5

Error message tells me "You need to update your Chrome browser" when I'm running Safari. Would be more helpful to say "You need to use Chrome instead of Safari". Didn't test beyond that as I don't have a guitar, was just curious to see what it looked like and thought I'd point that out.

Imo if you are using safari and you are playing a demo, you should expect the demo not to work. Safari is the new IE and most demos use advanced browser APIs that safari doesn't support. You shouldn't need an error message to understand that.

  Safari is the new IE
Is that meant as praise or criticism?

Re: Guitar browser game with a real guitar

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

1337biz wrote: post #24
aequitas wrote: post #16

Nice, but a little hard if you don't yet have chords associated by name and I'm missing background music/tempo to keep track. Personally I'm really fond of the Rocksmith game for learning guitar. It's like Guitar Hero, but with your own real guitar (and interactive lessons). I have no real ambition (or talent) for playing musical instruments, but somehow it lets me enjoy music interactively at my skill level while al…

Thanks for making me aware of Rocksmith. Wish there were more games which teach a real skill!

Check Synthesia for keyboard http://www.synthesiagame.com
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