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Re: Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

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quux wrote: post #16

Doom and Doom 2 were 32-bit games...

Yeah the "8-bit" part came from a (really cool) newsletter called The Happening from the Kickstarter employees. I don't think I made a claim like that. My only standard was non CD, I don't know why I guess it feels like I'm surfacing great music that is harder to hear again. The best example of this I can think of is http://sndtst.com/Continuum I had to trick down and build (on OSX) some obscure utilities and libraries to get this specific Amiga MOD rip into a wav format so I could upload it. I've also be encoding these from the the original VGM, NSF, HUE and SPC files with the great library [Game Music Emu](https://code.google.com/p/game-music-emu/) some simple C I adapted https://gist.github.com/jasonsperske/5ce7f90bf591454a08bc#fi.... This project is really my chance to play with HTML5 audio, Python and (very limited) C (and to have something fun playing in my car and while I program :)

Re: Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

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ANTSANTS wrote: post #9
empressplay wrote: post #7

Neat site, but most of these games were 16-bit... all these songs are still under copyright though so I worry for the site's longevity...

You know you can google "mario roms" and find hundreds of sites hosting the actual games (not just the music) that have been up for years , right? I think this one will be fine.

Here's hoping :) If it gets shut down then my total time has only been a few days of programming and about $15 in Amazon S3 bills so I still think it's been worth it. Never counted on other people picking it up as much though, that's been very fun. SNDTST has been played in 95 countries in the last 2 months.

Re: Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

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netw1z wrote: post #35

thanks for this. awesome!

Want a fun Easter Egg? Try and guess a game (by URL) I likely don't have it, but if you go there http://sndtst.com/The_7th_Guest you get a page that helps you ask for it to be added (and possibly pester whoever owns the rights to it to let it be uploaded, hint hint The Fat Man)

Re: Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

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normloman wrote: post #22

No love for firefox? It played on safari, but not mozilla.

Interesting. I'm really interested in learning more about what you are experiencing. I have been developing this almost entirely in Firefox for OSX and haven't had an issue playing music. I also extensively tested it in Chrome and iOS Safari. Anything you can tell me about your setup? Browser version? OS? flash plugin?(jPlayer has a flash fallback, maybe that's causing issues)

Re: Sndtst: 8-bit video game music

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Post by sndtst »

_nullandnull_ wrote: post #45

Great work. Having a download all link would be awesome.

When a song is playing a download link for the OGG and mp3 versions appears to the right of the track. It's really more of an after thought (I created the site primarily as a music streaming site, but the request came up so much I added it.
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