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The article doesn't make it very clear, but many of the links are to YouTube uploads of the actual songs. Here's one - the instrument he uses to accompany his v
by btown 10y ago
The article doesn't make it very clear, but many of the links are to YouTube uploads of the actual songs. Here's one - the instrument he uses to accompany his voice is indeed unique and rather haunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOX9-kcv7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOX9-kcv7g
(N.B. to journalists: in a world where embedded multimedia is easier than ever, make sure that if you're writing an article about audio, you make it easy for someone to listen to said audio without leaving your page and giving someone else your advertising eyeballs!)
- matt4077 10y agoTHere's a audio player embedded at the bottom. And I'm quite fond of the idea that should serve the reader by making the best use the structure of the web, i. e. ny linking to primary sources and other related material, instead of ignoring it or trying to recreate everything on their own site.
- btown 10y agoWhile hypertext is theoretically the "best use of the structure of the web," it does not immediately follow that this is the best UX for the consumer. Some middle ground exists between copying all multimedia to one's site, and simply making the most crucial pieces of information (namely the audio that is essential to the "why" of the article) an <a> tag that looks like all other <a> tags (and adding the cognitive overload of leaving your site to a foreign one with entirely different design and controls!). IMO embeds (inline, not just appended to an article) strike that middle ground quite effectively.
- inimino 10y agoThere's quite a distance between primary sources and random YouTube uploads, however.