8 ms·
Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
- thrill 5y agoNice!
- westcort 5y agoThank you! There are a few others like this: Radio Dramas: https://www.locserendipity.com/Radio.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Radio.html VOA Audio 2020 Collection: https://www.locserendipity.com/VOA.html https://www.locserendipity.com/VOA.html BBC One: https://www.locserendipity.com/Rad1.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Rad1.html G. Robert Vincent Voice library: https://www.locserendipity.com/Vincent.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Vincent.html AND 78RPM records with reduced static (used a high/low pass filter to remove it using Pizzicato.js): https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoNot getting https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html (with the low pass filter) to play. Is that supposed to play like https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html https://www.locserendipity.com/PushPlay.html?
- westcort 5y agoIt works a bit differently. You press "Random" or do a search, then click the songs that appeal to you. They are added to the (text) playlist. The idea is that you can change and save the playlist--no login required. You can even download the whole thing and use it offline, completely privately. It still works. The only bug is that you cannot skip.
- drivers99 5y agoI’m not getting a play button on the low-static version. I did manually copy one of the mp3 URLs [1] and it sounds great though. I’m on iOS (Safari on iPad) if that makes a difference. [1] That saxophone sounds great on headphones! https://archive.org/download/78_all-by-myself_don-cherry-grady-martin-and-the-slew-foot-five-irving-berlin_gbia0029284a/All%20by%20Myself%20-%20Don%20Cherry%20-%20Grady%20Martin%20and%20the%20Slew%20Foot%20Five.mp3 https://archive.org/download/78_all-by-myself_don-cherry-gra...
- westcort 5y agoThat is quality music! I have listened to many hours of this, and only one of the songs brought me to tears: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/25/items/78_how-can-you-refuse-him-now_porter-wagoner-hank-williams_gbia0080589b/How%20Can%20You%20Refuse%20Him%20Now%20-%20Porter%20Wagoner.mp3 https://ia600705.us.archive.org/25/items/78_how-can-you-refu... and from the radio drama section, John Finninmore's Souvenir program is tops: https://archive.org/download/JFSP56/0-101.mp3 https://archive.org/download/JFSP56/0-101.mp3 and this one was among the most memorable: http://www.rusc.com/members/files/mp3/f/favs.1949.03.05_Bet_The.mp3 http://www.rusc.com/members/files/mp3/f/favs.1949.03.05_Bet_...
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoThanks for the suggestions. If you like that one maybe you'd like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk
- westcort 5y agoThanks Dmitry! Love the idea of your app Pony (https://www.ponymessenger.com/ https://www.ponymessenger.com/). I will try it out. Sent you a connection request on LinkedIn.
- dmitryminkovsky 5y ago
- vortico 5y agoLove it. A feature suggestion is to add a link to the Archive.org page for the song.
- westcort 5y agoThank you so much! Great suggestion--will see about adding that feature in coming days. I hope you enjoy the music! You might also like the reduced static version (a little different interface--it is searchable): https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html
- cranky908canuck 5y agoThank you for this, looking forward to seeing it. Not yet seen my 78's showing up, but have seen them in the IA collection.
- westcort 5y agoThank you! I just added that feature. Thanks again for the suggestion and have a great weekend!
- nwatson 5y agoUnfortunately I'll probably be dead by the time the Joe Frank catalog drops out of copyright: https://www.joefrank.com/ https://www.joefrank.com/ The most interesting radio from around the '90s from KCRW (NPR).
- westcort 5y agoWow $1510 (https://www.joefrank.com/shop/the-entire-joe-frank-collection-shows-aired-1978-2002/ https://www.joefrank.com/shop/the-entire-joe-frank-collectio...), but money well spent probably. Radio dramas are really, really enjoyable.
- meristohm 5y agoBlindboy Boatclub, Irish artist formerly of The Rubberbandits, credits Joe Frank as an influence on his podcast style, tracing it back to Samuel Beckett as a potential influence on Joe Frank, who taught Ira Glass of This American Life, and may also have been inspiration for Chris Morris of Blue Jam and Brass Eye, programs that Blindboy experienced as a youth. (Shoutout to spaced repetition with Anki for helping me remember all this. It was one of my cloze cards to help me get back into using Anki and I didn’t expect to actually reference it)
- westcort 5y agoI will take a look at that artist too. Anki is a great tool. I have tried to do something like that with languages, like Japanese: https://www.locserendipity.com/jp/Japanese.html https://www.locserendipity.com/jp/Japanese.html and am working on voice simulators based on phonemes not dependent on APIs. It is not that easy to do. This English one based on my voice doesn't sound that great: https://www.locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html https://www.locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html
- OneEyedRobot 5y agoI'd suggest hooking it up to the archive.org 'unscoped' radio station files.
- westcort 5y agoJust for you, OneEyedRobot!: https://locserendipity.com/PushPlayRadio.html https://locserendipity.com/PushPlayRadio.html
- sodality2 5y agoNot infinite, there's only 29816 items in the list ;) But seriously, really awesome! Thanks for this :)
- westcort 5y agoLove that you counted them! Really great and appealing to hear that someone enjoys this--much appreciated!
- mrspeaker 5y agoThey just have to keep adding new items faster than you can listen to them!
- westcort 5y agoLove your books! https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3887 https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/3887 and Bellish looks pretty cool too (https://www.bellish.co/ https://www.bellish.co/).
- em3rgent0rdr 5y agoHmm...though I'm wondering were there always greater than 365 full days of audio recorded every year? I'm not sure that is true for the late 1920's-1930's, though by today (and maybe by the 1960's or so) that has become true. So I guess it will eventually become infinite with the metric of being able to listen to them all, though at the moment I'm not sure it is quite infinite yet.
- westcort 5y agoThere must have been a moment when the total recorded output of the world surpassed the total time a person, a city, a country (have we reached that point yet?) could listen or consume all of them. I suspect we will reach a point where songs are played once only, never to be heard again.
- jl6 5y ago
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoPerfect. Thank you.
- westcort 5y agoThank you!
- soheil 5y agoIf this playlist continuously plays it will never repeat if works that fall out of copyright as time passes are continuously added to the end.
- westcort 5y agoLove this idea!
- jll29 5y agoGreat hack, very useful link, thanks!
- westcort 5y agoThank you so much!
- igitur 5y agoAbsolutely love this. Thanks so much. Is there a way to stream this playlist to my Kodi box. Maybe with an m3u file?
- westcort 5y agoGreat idea! Here is the m3u file for streaming purposes: https://locserendipity.com/78RPM.m3u https://locserendipity.com/78RPM.m3u
- wizardforhire 5y agoNext up an infinite infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works that dynamically remixes mashups of said works in the catalog with an auto populating infinite scroll page of song titles…
- westcort 5y agoMaybe OpenAI could do it! I did create a playlist of their songs, so partial credit? https://www.locserendipity.com/OA/OpenAI.html https://www.locserendipity.com/OA/OpenAI.html
- checkyoursudo 5y agoI like it. I especially like the minimalism.
- westcort 5y agoThank you!
- wazoox 5y agoFirst song I've got is awesome: https://archive.org/download/78_double-duty_billy-taylor-and-his-quartet-billy-taylor_gbia0027330b/Double%20Duty%20-%20Billy%20Taylor%20And%20His%20Quartet.mp3 https://archive.org/download/78_double-duty_billy-taylor-and...
- westcort 5y agoThat is a good one! You were lucky!
- wazoox 5y agoSo far I didn't hit skip once, I'm surprised by the overall quality! I've had nice Cuban music, nice classical music, songs from various countries (Sweden, etc), some jazz and rock 'n roll, etc. And sound quality is generally pretty good or even excellent.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoI've heard record crackle but you'd get that playing the record anyway. "Cleaning up" music is often unnecessary.
- folex 5y agoFor some reason, 78 RPM (https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html) doesn't work for me - I press Random, then link, then Play, and nothing happens. Chrome, MacOS 10.14, no adblock
- westcort 5y agoThat is my fault--nonintutive interface. With this one, you need to select the songs you like and they are added to the list in the box. When you press play, that list plays. The idea was to create some customization without a login. Please see if that works for you.
- wazoox 5y agoNow add a "like" button and make an additional list of "most liked" pieces, and beat streaming services at their own game :)
- westcort 5y agoGood idea!
- enriquto 5y agoNot necessarily. Some people actively abhor such dopamine dispensers.
- SomeBoolshit 5y agoPeople hate listening to music they like?
- Retric 5y agoSome people really prefer novelty. Try listening to say WFMU for a while, you might hate it but it’s likely to hold your attention in ways personalized streaming doesn’t.
- tgv 5y agoThis. The like button all too often acts like the "echo chamber": you're going to go around in circles. Writing a good recommendation system is very hard, and it gets harder as the number of users grows (because primitive algorithms will get more and more certain of their predictions, and diverge less and less from the favorites). Anyway, the service is called loc "serendipity".
- enriquto 5y agoI'm talking about the like button and other "social" stuff.
- jl6 5y agoCongratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite?... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own server. Now, I know the IA are perfectly happy to let you do this, and of course part of their mandate is to make content accessible, which necessitates having low-friction ways to download it. But still, I would hate to see IA become a CDN-first, archive-second. Maybe a compromise would be to suggest that users make a donation?: https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/
- tudorw 5y agodonations are a fine thing, so is discovery, anything that helps to surface quality will long term perhaps help the archive prove its worth and ensure a positive attitude towards their endeavours.
- westcort 5y agoGreat idea! I added a donation link.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- veltas 5y agoIs it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?
- brian_herman 5y agoI agree, I don't think this is a impolite usage of Internet Archive's resources. I think they would love it. Though I also agree that putting a donation link to the source is also a good idea.
- m12k 5y agoYou realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a-four-leaf-clover_jerry-murads-harmonicats-harry-woods-mort-dick_gbia0056866a/I%27m%20Looking%20over%20a%20Four%20Leaf%20C%20-%20Jerry%20Murad%27s%20Harmonicats.mp3 https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
- subpixel 5y agoYou just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org) It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- n4bz0r 5y agoIt's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
- n4bz0r 5y agoTurns out, my spider-sense wasn't off. Here is an interesting comment from YT by "stephen wallin": As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton. Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.
- jd3 5y agoI love this! I previously used Parker Higgens' 78 sampler twitter bot to discover new entries in the collection, but I really like your autoplay/jukebox feature. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123888 https://twitter.com/78_sampler https://twitter.com/78_sampler https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124267
- stevage 5y agoGreat idea! Even if my first song was "O come all ye faithful".
- entropie 5y agoReally Cool. Can we have any form of playlist or something to use our favourite player?