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stephband / scribe

Renders music in HTML.
https://labs.cruncher.ch/scribe
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Please don't commit audio files, let's use an audio server #21

Closed stephband closed 1 month ago

stephband commented 1 month ago

@halitcelik –

I have removed the player/...m4a test audio file from the repo, and added *.m4a to .gitignore. You will have to put the file back in locally, but please pull and make sure your .gitignore has *.m4a listed first.

The problem with committing audio is that they are big files, and as the git repo carries around a history of everything that has ever been in it, they can make the repo very big.

I want to solve this problem by uploading a load of samples to S3 or another server, with some very permissive CORS settings. That's what @mbi and I were chatting about today. You could look into that next.

This repo contains orchestral samples in .wav format: https://github.com/soundio/VSCO-2-CE. I want to upload them all to S3, or to sound.stephen.band, ideally preserving the directory structure, along with .m4a/256kbit encoded versions of the same files in the same locations. Why two copies? The compressed .m4a files will be for quick download, but I want to preserve the ability to switch back to high quality .wav files when needed.

stephband commented 1 month ago

Update! Ah, I see the problem, you need to test on labs.cruncher.ch/scribe/. Right, instead of putting test audio in this repo, you should be able to use any of the samples you find here:

https://sound.stephen.band/samples/

Such as this URL, for example:

https://sound.stephen.band/samples/steinway-piano/m4a/65-piano-ff.m4a

If they don't work, we need to ask Marco about the CORS permissions these are served with, but I think they are ok.