scottschiller / wheelsofsteel.net

The Wheels Of Steel: Turntables in your browser (a web-based DJ prototype)
http://wheelsofsteel.net/
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long term issues #2

Closed githubjohngo closed 13 years ago

githubjohngo commented 13 years ago

For me after installing the source on my local host, the main thing was figuring out how to load album art. ?(directory of the jpg file--for me I left the jpg files in the same directory as the mp3's). The waveform thing has been a bit of a letdown with my host. They aren't letting me compileLAME. I'm looking for a workaround at the moment. Perhaps serving all my audio on my home computer but I'd rather not due that.

I know safari and macs are faster. I was able to get pretty good animation after a lot of lag. What I'm testing now is finding out more about compressing java and only serving mp3's as mono. Maybe adding a record filter in audacity to make the audio sound more like a record. Certainly the lower the file size the less it could hurt bandwidth. I did notice that most of the steps in the php script for obtaining a waveform image I can do in Audacity. It is a matter of getting the image. I would think with audacity and gimp or photoshop it would be possible to get a standard mp3 waveform file to load by a simple link instead of all this layman's hollywood trickery.

It might be worth writing my own tutorial or screencast on installing this to the limits of my own knowledge and seeing what others are capable of by way of feedback.

I did notice a bit about netbeans in the source code I downloaded but I forgot where the files were located. I'm examining each and every file as well as looking into action script. There are some actionscript scripts in perl that may help me bridge the gap that my provider has as modules but all this is over my head. Just a greedy turntable wantabee.

anyone with advice on what i can do to help go ahead and send me some feedback. This has defineatly got me excited about producing more material for turntables whereas I've abandon creative endeavors altogether.

githubjohngo commented 13 years ago

http://waveform.focustheweb.com/

has a waveform field. Don't know how helpful that is or where to install the png afterward. I'm sure it is a simple issue.