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Ok I'll go first. It's an "Imgur for audio files". Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly
by karangoeluw 13y ago
Ok I'll go first.
It's an "Imgur for audio files".
Now there's times when you record an audio and want to share it. What do you do? Uhh,, umm.... Yup. exactly. There's no reliable, easy-to-use app to share audio files (not music).
So, this is a web/mobile app for easily uploading and sharing audio files, and playing them. I don't have a full plan laid out, but I'll work on it for sure.
(If you'd like to be notified when it's done, let me know: http://eepurl.com/SRIPT http://eepurl.com/SRIPT)
- ape4 13y agoFolks seem to use SoundCloud for that. But its mostly music.
- wxm 13y agoIn what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?
- karangoeluw 13y agoYes. And a single use - upload and share. And SoundCloud is mostly for music, this is for random audio files only. Also, I'd like to make the service free, ad free, and maybe add a very cheap pro option.
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- 4ngle 13y agoThe big thing about imgur is the community. Consider the front page of imgur. I think that's the cool thing about the idea. You usually go to Soundcloud because you're linked there, it's not something that easily builds its own culture.
- dwiel 13y agoSoundcloud has a nice culture. I go there both to discover music and to listen to music I've liked. It's different than imgur but I think that partly is just due to the fact that it takes anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour to experience each 'piece' compared to an image which you can digest in a few seconds and flip through a bunch when you need to burn a minute or two.
- karangoeluw 13y agoYou bring up an interesting point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614790
- kbar13 13y agodebatable. soundcloud has community as well, you just might not have gotten into it yet if you simply get linked or listen to stuff from the embedded player.
- wingerlang 13y agohttp://vocaroo.com/ http://vocaroo.com/
- karangoeluw 13y agoIt's flash. kthxbye
- keehun 13y agoSoundcloud as mentioned earlier is great.
- patothon 13y agocould soundcloud help with this?
- karangoeluw 13y agoMaybe? I mean I could use their API and provide a simpler interface. Maybe not? I'd like this to be a standalone service though.
- mc_hammer 13y agoytmnd.com
- OzzyB 13y agoAnd the blast-from-the-past award goes to you! Sean sends his regards :)
- yarri 13y agoMy 12-yr-old had a similar idea of "snap chat audio" which he and a buddy published as an app [0]. Seems a bit different than what you're looking for, which is more like Soundcloud? [0] http://snapradioapp.com http://snapradioapp.com
- ekmartin 13y agoYour 12-year old son made that? Looks great!
- hsx 13y agoAudio-ur is already out there. http://audiour.com/ http://audiour.com/
- morganherlocker 13y agoI first read that as ardour[1], which seemed like a terrible way to pass audio around (big project files in email?). I wonder if that confusion is what motivated them to change their name. [1]
- chourobin 13y agoDropbox share link
- spaboleo 13y agoThe issue with this is the increasing number of people on mobile devices and variety of device types. Worst case (and sadly most common one): You share the dropbox link, the recipient clicks on it, it opens the browser, triggers a download, he has to choose a download location, download vanishes or takes a few seconds that are spent doing something else, worst case: the person forgets about the file / best case: he digs ups a file manager, navigates to the downloaded file and opens it, player selection...maybe...and all that for a 5-15s just audio-greeting message :/ It should just work out of the box. People seem to use Messengers for that. Like Whatsapp, which play back recorded or attached Audio. But yet this is only mobile.
- alokyadav15 13y agoFor all media files I use https://mediacru.sh/ https://mediacru.sh/ simple, awesome , fast and opensource
- karangoeluw 13y agoI uploaded a binary, and it tried to play it: https://mediacru.sh/RfFfk7QAJqLY https://mediacru.sh/RfFfk7QAJqLY
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoThe reason why this doesn't exist, and can't exist at the scale of imgur is because of piracy.
- karangoeluw 13y agoagain not music but audio files. sure there isn't a sure shot way of stopping people from sharing music, but there are some things that can be done. for example, max time limit can be set to 60 sec for each audio file.
- nathanrjones 13y agoAlternatively, if you don't feel like waiting you could use Audiour, the original "Imgur of Audio." http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1hr1tm/the_imgur_of_audio/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1hr1tm/the_imgur_of_a... It was just relaunched as Clyp: http://clyp.it http://clyp.it