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GitHub Audio (2016)
- ydnaclementine 6y agoLichess uses this same type of nice, pentatonic audio to notify when pieces move
- thom 6y agoNaively optimistic part of me thought this was going to be some grand accessibility endeavour for sight impaired people, but this is cool too.
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- jonpurdy 6y agoThis was really so much cooler than expected! Might actually use it to replace brain.fm when working. I’d love to see this applied as a general streaming API ingestor, or even used for live tailing log files and playing sounds that match particular events. (This is where people will comment below with all sorts of examples I haven’t heard of, one of the reasons I love HN)
- kemayo 6y agoFor those wanting to try this, I'll note that it didn't play any audio in Safari so I had to switch to Chrome to experience it.
- lowercased 6y agoworks in Firefox for me too, but not safari.
- sli 6y agoIt works in Firefox for me for about 10 seconds, then stops producing audio unless I refresh. Running 79.0b3.
- lowercased 6y ago78.01 on Mac for me. ran fine for several minutes.
- NetOpWibby 6y agoThis doesn’t seem to load in iOS Safari.
- mkchoi212 6y agoWow like the author says, it is nice to leave open in the background :)
- SkyPuncher 6y agoI love sites like these. I use to listen to https://www.bitlisten.com/ https://www.bitlisten.com/ Bit Listen was a bit distracting though, because it has some really oversized transactions.
- sixhobbits 6y agohow do trademarks work for this kind of thing. It's cool and I enjoyed it but I did at first think it was an official GitHub project and my rudimentary understanding of trademark law is that it's meant to prevent just that.
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agoI'm sure Github could make them change their domain name if they wanted to
- newtoday 6y agoIf I remember correctly from previous posts about the use of 'Git', this also violates the Git trademark. Edit: Okay, I decided to not be lazy and provide more information. Official Git trademark policy: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark https://git-scm.com/about/trademark Also, if the OP / creator wants to, they can ask for wriiten permission to use the name. Although, I've read instances of them simply saying no.
- notRobot 6y agoThe relevant bit: > In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service without Conservancy's written permission.
- evv 6y agoThis is fascinating. Has GitHub received permission, or is their trademark in jeopardy? And, what about Gitlab, Gitea, and all? The growth of git as a distributed service has suffered greatly at the hands of GitHub.. makes me wonder if the Git Conservancy would be inclined to push back.
- detaro 6y agoGithub was trademarked before git. The git trademark was only granted with a documented understanding they wouldn't conflict. Projects existing at that time got exceptions, and new ones are still sometimes granted. EDIT: some more details: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@sigill.intra.peff.net/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
- butz 6y agoHow does this website bypass blocked audio playback on Firefox? It doesn't even require click on webpage.
- rzzzt 6y agoI think Web Audio playback is not restricted (yet) by the autoplay policy in FF, only HTML5 elements: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_guide#Autoplay_using_the_Web_Audio_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_... - https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-autoplay https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/web-audio-...
- noahtallen 6y agoInterestingly, I can’t find a way for it to play audio whatsoever on Firefox for iOS.
- benbristow 6y agoI thought the volume slider was an Apple Watch for a minute.
- adontz 6y agoAny information on why are these sounds so pleasant? These are not random frequencies/durations for sure.
- phoe-krk 6y agoThese sounds are likely chosen at random from a predefined list of sounds along a given musical scale; possibly the background drones also have a say in the matter. You can read the source at https://github.audio/static/public/js/main.js https://github.audio/static/public/js/main.js and possibly infer some information from it/
- dang 6y agoDiscussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635247
- dijksterhuis 6y agoVery similar Brian Eno's Bloom app in both design and sound. Except the GitHub data backend. Some of my most productive work was done while listening to that app (and a lot of Brian Eno's ambient output). There's an interview where he talks about how Bloom will never repeat in our lifetimes (or Reflections, one of the two). He wanted to achieve that with music for airports 1, but was limited by available technology.
- gdsdfe 6y agoA bit disappointing, I thought it's going to be a GitHub for audio
- racl101 6y agoR.I.P. laptop speakers. Make sure you guys turn the volume down before clicking on anything.
- yuchi 6y agoOh my gosh I so much want this for our own internal GitLab instance!!!!
- buryat 6y agodoesn't work in Safari