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Youtube and Soundcloud's content ID engines effectively killed the genre of mashups. There was a pretty vibrant community with a lot of new artists on both, wit
by jjcm 9y ago
Youtube and Soundcloud's content ID engines effectively killed the genre of mashups. There was a pretty vibrant community with a lot of new artists on both, with rooms on plug.dj and even turntable.fm back in the day. Then the content ID engines hit and one by one every mashup artist (with the exception of girltalk) had their work taken down by poor fingerprinting. It was such a massacre we took to making http://mashup.fm http://mashup.fm which used youtube-dl to cache everything locally, but by then it was too late. All the artists stopped creating content because they didn't want to be permabanned from these huge services.
I worry what by-catch Microsoft's engine will leave in its wake.
- Mayzie 9y agoWarning for those with sound turned on. The website automatically plays music at full volume.
- annnnd 9y agoI hate this. There really should be a setting in browser so that I don't allow sound from any website unless I explicitly click the speaker icon in tab bar. Annoying as hell.
- msl 9y agoIf you use Firefox, go to about:config and set "media.autoplay.enabled" to false. A few web sites throw a fit when they can't autoplay, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
- alexsays 9y agoIt's probably one of the worst faux pars you can make in UX. I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't announce to everyone in the bathroom what I'm browsing
- kuschku 9y agoThat’s actually a default in the latest nightly. Pretty nice IMO.
- hashhar 9y agoIt'll be a default on Firefox 55. Or you can try the current Nightly.
- annnnd 9y agoYES!!! Thank you! :) EDIT: though it's not exactly what I had in mind... I want content to autoplay as normal, just the sound should be muted until I unmute it...