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Show HN: Music Video Dispenser

86 points by sigvef 10y ago

spiderfarmer 10y ago
Great idea. Could really use some more ambient effects. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Soundcloud copied this and added it as a pro feature.
FunnyLookinHat 10y ago
Allowing multiple backgrounds, and rotating the background at different points by reacting to the music would be a nice touch - I kept waiting for the background to change.
- JepZ 10y ago
  me 2
t3ra 10y ago
Adding a few demos would be great (esp since its not supported on firefox)
- sigvef 10y ago
  We added a YouTube video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0-D6hVaU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0-D6hVaU8
  - t3ra 10y ago
    Awesome :) any plans to opensource part the code ? I am esp interested in learning how u managing to support high CPU usage and resource cost
    - shefaliprateek 10y ago
      +1
gogoro 10y ago
Really nice web service. Already started pushing it on some of my friends that are making music, and they love it. More effects would be very much appreciated :)
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utexaspunk 10y ago
I don't know if I'd call the output of that a music "video". I was expecting something that perhaps splices together video segments from youtube in tempo with the music.
ivrrimum 10y ago
Damn, i was creating the same thing!
fil_a_del_fee_a 10y ago
THANK YOU! I needed something like this badly. I created my own static image videos using Adobe Premier but it took way too long. Kudos!!! Market this towards music producers. Mainly those who compose instrumentals. Hip-Hop, Dubstep, EDM, etc...
itake 10y ago
This looks freaking awesome! It would be super cool if you could link this up with one of the many HQ royalty free photography websites like Unsplash[0]. [0] https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/
JohnJamesRambo 10y ago
I'm confused about what makes this special. Is it just an image behind an equalizer graphic?
- nix0n 10y ago
  Easy YouTube export is the new feature here.
deskamess 10y ago
Awesome... any plans to let others contribute ambient/other effects? If you allow monetization, you could take a cut as well per sale. Long term, as others have asked, would like to see a "timeline effects" editor. Given an audio clip, allow for the insertion/removal/overlay of effects at various time points. Make the export/import of these "timeline effects" possible via some format. Once rendered, it is no longer needed, but the timeline definition file would be nice to have for sharing during the creation phase, and for subsequent regeneration.
- sigvef 10y ago
  That's a cool monetization model. More effects are coming up for sure, and we would definitely like to see what sorts of awesome effects the community can come up with!
kmfrk 10y ago
Sweet project. The equalizer is going to make it seem a little repetitive, but I'm sure you've got other equalizers planned. A lyrics-based music video generator would be a cool thing to tackle, although that'd require timestamping.
Something1234 10y ago
I was expecting a kiosk machine, kind of disappointed, but its still a cool project.
- sigvef 10y ago
  Maybe we can kickstart a physical kiosk machine? I heard they're all the rage nowadays [0]. [0]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13584488/snapchat-snap-inc-spectacles-vending-machine-snapbot-available http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13584488/snapchat-snap-in...
jaflo 10y ago
This is really weird, I began working on a similar project recently, although I tried to implement all of the audio processing and rendering client-side using canvas and ffmpeg.js. Kept running into memory issues though. Using a MediaRecorder was going to be my next step. One suggestion: on the export screen, you provide two options. I would add some text that clarifies what quality basic and full HD are (or how else these two options differ).
- sigvef 10y ago
  We looked at using ffmpeg.js too since we wanted faster-than-real-time and constant frame rate rendering. It's too slow though, so we went with MediaRecorder instead. Thanks for the suggestion on the export screen!
JTxt 10y ago
It looks like a start to a remake of the visualization plugin for Winamp, Milkdrop2. Apparently opensource now. https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/ There's many many presets/scripts made for it. http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/ http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk I see someone started to port it to the web: https://github.com/gattis/milkshake https://github.com/gattis/milkshake (though it did not work for me in chrome.) Edit: here's one that works, you can edit the presets: https://butterchurnviz.com/ https://butterchurnviz.com/
mattesar 10y ago
This is great, I've been making music for fun and have been looking for an easy way to make Youtube videos for them because I want to release them under Creative Commons later. My only option was doing it via a video editing software (which I find cumbersome). Thank you, this helps me save a lot of time.
djaychela 10y ago
This has potential, IMO. I'm mostly a music tech teacher and sometime music producer, and a very basic programmer (of the use some modules with a lot of stackoverflow reading!), and I just produced a few python scripts to make some stock videos for my tracks that have been released; there were about 80 or so, so I knocked up a script to take the CSV output from the distribution company and tie that up with the image from the release to make a video background, and then another script to set ffmpeg to make a video with that static image, then uploaded all of them to YouTube. I would have liked to make them more interesting by using some of ffmpeg's visualisation abilities in there, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it given the amount of plays they are likely to get (rounding over all of them... zero, although they've streamed and sold reasonably well given the zero promotion we've done). Reason for doing all that is that the distribution company does something similar, but only 5 minutes of the track (most are 7 minutes plus). I'd think there would be some market in finding distribution companies (mine is Labelworx) and being able to produce interesting, automated videos? <pedantry mode on> HN: It's not a graphic equaliser, it's a spectrum analyser in the demo video </pedantry off>
- dwarri 10y ago
  I'd like to know more about what automated video solutions you think distribution companies would like to use. There are companies like Rotor already doing this for individual musicians, but their offering seems a little complicated. Would you mind if I emailed you?
  - djaychela 10y ago
    No, email away (not sure how much help I'd be!) - email is my HN username @ gmail.com
shefaliprateek 10y ago
Awesome! great work. I'm a programmer, but - I've always wondered how does one go about making/generating such videos?
nvahalik 10y ago
Only watched the demo... thought that the ARRL's Podcast had started playing! Same song!
gallerdude 10y ago
Neat!
somidscr21 10y ago
I tried to do this with a song of mine. Every time it got to 100% the page crashed out.
ginisksam 10y ago
Waiting for the EXPORTING screen box for ages & decided to terminate. 2ndly yeah what so great of having an image with equalizer bar moving.. Did i miss anything ?!

86 points by sigvef 10y ago

Great idea. Could really use some more ambient effects. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Soundcloud copied this and added it as a pro feature.

FunnyLookinHat 10y ago

Allowing multiple backgrounds, and rotating the background at different points by reacting to the music would be a nice touch - I kept waiting for the background to change.

JepZ 10y ago
me 2

t3ra 10y ago

Adding a few demos would be great (esp since its not supported on firefox)

sigvef 10y ago
We added a YouTube video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0-D6hVaU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0-D6hVaU8
- t3ra 10y ago
  Awesome :) any plans to opensource part the code ? I am esp interested in learning how u managing to support high CPU usage and resource cost
  - shefaliprateek 10y ago
    +1

gogoro 10y ago

Really nice web service. Already started pushing it on some of my friends that are making music, and they love it. More effects would be very much appreciated :)

deleted 10y ago

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utexaspunk 10y ago

I don't know if I'd call the output of that a music "video". I was expecting something that perhaps splices together video segments from youtube in tempo with the music.

ivrrimum 10y ago

Damn, i was creating the same thing!

fil_a_del_fee_a 10y ago

THANK YOU! I needed something like this badly. I created my own static image videos using Adobe Premier but it took way too long. Kudos!!! Market this towards music producers. Mainly those who compose instrumentals. Hip-Hop, Dubstep, EDM, etc...

itake 10y ago

This looks freaking awesome! It would be super cool if you could link this up with one of the many HQ royalty free photography websites like Unsplash[0]. [0] https://unsplash.com/ https://unsplash.com/

JohnJamesRambo 10y ago

I'm confused about what makes this special. Is it just an image behind an equalizer graphic?

nix0n 10y ago
Easy YouTube export is the new feature here.

deskamess 10y ago

Awesome... any plans to let others contribute ambient/other effects? If you allow monetization, you could take a cut as well per sale. Long term, as others have asked, would like to see a "timeline effects" editor. Given an audio clip, allow for the insertion/removal/overlay of effects at various time points. Make the export/import of these "timeline effects" possible via some format. Once rendered, it is no longer needed, but the timeline definition file would be nice to have for sharing during the creation phase, and for subsequent regeneration.

sigvef 10y ago
That's a cool monetization model. More effects are coming up for sure, and we would definitely like to see what sorts of awesome effects the community can come up with!

kmfrk 10y ago

Sweet project. The equalizer is going to make it seem a little repetitive, but I'm sure you've got other equalizers planned. A lyrics-based music video generator would be a cool thing to tackle, although that'd require timestamping.

Something1234 10y ago

I was expecting a kiosk machine, kind of disappointed, but its still a cool project.

sigvef 10y ago
Maybe we can kickstart a physical kiosk machine? I heard they're all the rage nowadays [0]. [0]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13584488/snapchat-snap-inc-spectacles-vending-machine-snapbot-available http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13584488/snapchat-snap-in...

jaflo 10y ago

This is really weird, I began working on a similar project recently, although I tried to implement all of the audio processing and rendering client-side using canvas and ffmpeg.js. Kept running into memory issues though. Using a MediaRecorder was going to be my next step. One suggestion: on the export screen, you provide two options. I would add some text that clarifies what quality basic and full HD are (or how else these two options differ).

sigvef 10y ago
We looked at using ffmpeg.js too since we wanted faster-than-real-time and constant frame rate rendering. It's too slow though, so we went with MediaRecorder instead. Thanks for the suggestion on the export screen!

JTxt 10y ago

It looks like a start to a remake of the visualization plugin for Winamp, Milkdrop2. Apparently opensource now. https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/milkdrop2/ There's many many presets/scripts made for it. http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/ http://ghostco.de/milkdrop_pack/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdL_JSsY6qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoshHRG1Qbk I see someone started to port it to the web: https://github.com/gattis/milkshake https://github.com/gattis/milkshake (though it did not work for me in chrome.) Edit: here's one that works, you can edit the presets: https://butterchurnviz.com/ https://butterchurnviz.com/

mattesar 10y ago

This is great, I've been making music for fun and have been looking for an easy way to make Youtube videos for them because I want to release them under Creative Commons later. My only option was doing it via a video editing software (which I find cumbersome). Thank you, this helps me save a lot of time.

djaychela 10y ago

This has potential, IMO. I'm mostly a music tech teacher and sometime music producer, and a very basic programmer (of the use some modules with a lot of stackoverflow reading!), and I just produced a few python scripts to make some stock videos for my tracks that have been released; there were about 80 or so, so I knocked up a script to take the CSV output from the distribution company and tie that up with the image from the release to make a video background, and then another script to set ffmpeg to make a video with that static image, then uploaded all of them to YouTube. I would have liked to make them more interesting by using some of ffmpeg's visualisation abilities in there, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it given the amount of plays they are likely to get (rounding over all of them... zero, although they've streamed and sold reasonably well given the zero promotion we've done). Reason for doing all that is that the distribution company does something similar, but only 5 minutes of the track (most are 7 minutes plus). I'd think there would be some market in finding distribution companies (mine is Labelworx) and being able to produce interesting, automated videos? <pedantry mode on> HN: It's not a graphic equaliser, it's a spectrum analyser in the demo video </pedantry off>

dwarri 10y ago
I'd like to know more about what automated video solutions you think distribution companies would like to use. There are companies like Rotor already doing this for individual musicians, but their offering seems a little complicated. Would you mind if I emailed you?
- djaychela 10y ago
  No, email away (not sure how much help I'd be!) - email is my HN username @ gmail.com

shefaliprateek 10y ago

Awesome! great work. I'm a programmer, but - I've always wondered how does one go about making/generating such videos?

nvahalik 10y ago

Only watched the demo... thought that the ARRL's Podcast had started playing! Same song!

gallerdude 10y ago

Neat!

somidscr21 10y ago

I tried to do this with a song of mine. Every time it got to 100% the page crashed out.

ginisksam 10y ago

Waiting for the EXPORTING screen box for ages & decided to terminate. 2ndly yeah what so great of having an image with equalizer bar moving.. Did i miss anything ?!