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Show HN: TimeForZen, my first "learning to code" solo project

19 points by ChrisNorstrom 15y ago

dclaysmith 15y ago
Fantastic. I will definitely use this. Very relaxing. UI could use some polish. What if you had a "big" featured track at the top and then more options below? http://imgur.com/5IBlu http://imgur.com/5IBlu (MS Paint copy and paste) The columns below would be channels/categories.
- ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
  lol Thanks. The mockup actually gives me some ideas. When I get enough tracks (like 50+) I think I'm going to take your advice and put a featured track at the very top. As well as changing all the images to lazy load as people scroll down. That way the site loads up faster initially.
tstegart 15y ago
I can't get it to work, it just sits at the loading screen for me. Using Firefox on Vista.
- ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
  Thank you so much, I was afraid of this. I'm using tinybox2 from scriptiny.com and the glitch might be from his script. What version of firefox do you have?
  - tstegart 15y ago
    11.0, the latest version. Chrome works just dandy though.
    - ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
      Jesus Christ. OK check this out. Apparently there's a weird voodoo glitch between Firefox and amazon s3 bucket policies (which are a nightmare for beginners) that was preventing the audio from streaming only on Firefox browsers... After 7 hours of hair pulling, I fixed it. But I've lost my bucket polices that prevent hot-linking the audio. And I've also decided to abandon Amazon S3. I'm making the switch tonight. It's such a pain in the ass It's just not worth it. So much trouble just to get the simplest things done when I could of spent 1 minute with an FTP client and a .htaccess file and gotten the same result. I've had so many problems with numerous Amazon services, from unboxed, to video on demand, to S3 numerous times, to amazon mp3. I am disappointed and frustrated beyond comprehension. Strike 10 Amazon. (literally this is the 10th time I've had problems) You're out. Maybe no one else has had problems but I personally am going to avoid Amazon services. I've experienced 10 glitches over the last year that have affected my purchases or websites and I've seen enough.
      - tstegart 15y ago
        Still broken. Maybe its me and not your site.
helen842000 15y ago
This is pretty nice! I think it would be pretty cool if when you selected a track the beautiful picture that accompanies the audio goes to full screen. Maybe the black instruction bar could display until the track loads and just fade leaving the photo and a pause/close window icon somewhere discreet like in the top right hand corner! Listens to the waves
- ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
  I was originally going to do it that way. Have a full screen background, but by loading that up it would slow down the loading of the song. I think I'll revisit the concept since you like the idea. I'll probably give it a try in the next build. Thanks.

19 points by ChrisNorstrom 15y ago

Fantastic. I will definitely use this. Very relaxing. UI could use some polish. What if you had a "big" featured track at the top and then more options below? http://imgur.com/5IBlu http://imgur.com/5IBlu (MS Paint copy and paste) The columns below would be channels/categories.

ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
lol Thanks. The mockup actually gives me some ideas. When I get enough tracks (like 50+) I think I'm going to take your advice and put a featured track at the very top. As well as changing all the images to lazy load as people scroll down. That way the site loads up faster initially.

tstegart 15y ago

I can't get it to work, it just sits at the loading screen for me. Using Firefox on Vista.

ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
Thank you so much, I was afraid of this. I'm using tinybox2 from scriptiny.com and the glitch might be from his script. What version of firefox do you have?
- tstegart 15y ago
  11.0, the latest version. Chrome works just dandy though.
  - ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
    Jesus Christ. OK check this out. Apparently there's a weird voodoo glitch between Firefox and amazon s3 bucket policies (which are a nightmare for beginners) that was preventing the audio from streaming only on Firefox browsers... After 7 hours of hair pulling, I fixed it. But I've lost my bucket polices that prevent hot-linking the audio. And I've also decided to abandon Amazon S3. I'm making the switch tonight. It's such a pain in the ass It's just not worth it. So much trouble just to get the simplest things done when I could of spent 1 minute with an FTP client and a .htaccess file and gotten the same result. I've had so many problems with numerous Amazon services, from unboxed, to video on demand, to S3 numerous times, to amazon mp3. I am disappointed and frustrated beyond comprehension. Strike 10 Amazon. (literally this is the 10th time I've had problems) You're out. Maybe no one else has had problems but I personally am going to avoid Amazon services. I've experienced 10 glitches over the last year that have affected my purchases or websites and I've seen enough.
    - tstegart 15y ago
      Still broken. Maybe its me and not your site.

helen842000 15y ago

This is pretty nice! I think it would be pretty cool if when you selected a track the beautiful picture that accompanies the audio goes to full screen. Maybe the black instruction bar could display until the track loads and just fade leaving the photo and a pause/close window icon somewhere discreet like in the top right hand corner! Listens to the waves

ChrisNorstrom 15y ago
I was originally going to do it that way. Have a full screen background, but by loading that up it would slow down the loading of the song. I think I'll revisit the concept since you like the idea. I'll probably give it a try in the next build. Thanks.