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Introducing choir.io

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Re: Introducing choir.io

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Post by nmcfarl »

So I’ve been listening to the demo in the background for a bit now. And I think it does convey info in a non-intrusive way, though I’d imagine it’ll take a long while to know exactly what’s going on just by listening.

It seems like the big trick when implementing an app on top of this is appropriately assigning the "level" of the event. Every time the Alarm or Horn goes off it’s fairly intrusive.

Regardless an awesome, uniqueº and useful service.

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Re: Introducing choir.io

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Post by kragniz »

Watching the github realtime activity with sound was mesmerising. I spent at least fifteen minutes listening to it.

You mentioned there will be Windows and OSX standalone clients coming soon. Will there be an API for writing clients?

Re: Introducing choir.io

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Post by nadaviv »

The sound in the demo doesn't seem to work for me, on Chromium 28.0.1500.71 running on Ubuntu 13.10.

This looks awesome - I been wanting to setup something similar in our office that makes a sound every time a sale is made for some time now, so this can be pretty handy.

Re: Introducing choir.io

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Post by jpalomaki »

Very interesting.

Watching log files scroll by I have noticed that once you have stared at them for too long you start recognizing the patterns. There's not enough time you read everything that scrolls by you quite often you just know that now something is out of place.

Maybe these soundscapes could provide something similar in a non obtrusive way. Just by listening your brain would be wired to expect certain sounds as consequence for certain actions. If something goes wrong, you would just know it.

I think one challenges is how to take something like this into use. Setting up the the triggers and configuring the sounds feels like too much trouble ("What is the correct sound for this event"). Might be just better to take some ready provided set and learn the sounds.

Re: Introducing choir.io

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Post by cortesi »

rfnslyr wrote: post #4

THIS IS SO AWESOME! https://choir.io/player/f9c750f2bedb0c0f Been listening to this for awhile now. Love it. Can't wait for a standalone client. Do you have a mailing list? I'd love to keep track of an ongoing feature list of sorts.

Please drop your email into the invites queue. We're working hard on Choir and will have a blog with new features up and running soon. When that happens, we'll drop a line to everyone in the queue.
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