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Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere

by peeters 12y ago

Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos. If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!

detritus 12y ago
You're not alone, that is an absolutely default behaviour for me too.
mholt 12y ago
Click the "window detail" icon above the video and then you can keep browsing around.
panzi 12y ago
> Can't wait for some of the cello solos. Me too! Although I have bought a Magnatune lifetime membership and listen to the Bach Cello Suites there: http://my.magnatune.com/search?w=bach%20cello http://my.magnatune.com/search?w=bach%20cello Well, I made me my own player to stream the music: http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/ http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/
- fiatjaf 12y ago
  I don't understand from where it came, but the sound is reaching me speakers and it is being awesome. Thanks.
- quinndupont 12y ago
  I had forgotten about Magnatune! I used to buy all sorts of stuff from them. I always loved their approach, and its great to see that they still exist. Thanks for reminding me that they still exist.
keithpeter 12y ago
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filter=artist#go_2376 http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt... Might keep you going for a bit. Colin Carr playing four of the six suites. CC licenced, lowish bit-rate mp3s I can't play the All of Bach at all, suspect flash related (gnash/iceweasel on Debian Sid) EDIT: yup, flashplayer-nonfree works. This being HN, do we think a flashplayer based solution is sensible for a long term project such as this? Is mass transcoding at some point in the future likely to be a trivial task?
- yaur 12y ago
  Poking around it looks like they are hosted on Vimeo and that the default is HTML5/H.264 with fallback to flash. Assuming that iceweasel has H.264 support (IIRC there is a way to get it through ffmpeg) you can probably it could just be that they are doing UA sniffing and don't recognize your browser.
  - keithpeter 12y ago
    Good for them. I'll hack around to get the required codec. Thanks.
- pfortuny 12y ago
  I can watch them on my iPhone so I guess there must be either a fallback solution or something else. It was flash on my PC however.
cmelbye 12y ago
Yup, I clicked the empty background as well and was confused for a second when the video stopped.
HanyouHottie 12y ago
Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. It also annoys me when what appears to be the background of a webpage is actually a link to somewhere, as I inevitably end up clicking it when trying reset the focus.

by peeters 12y ago

detritus 12y ago

You're not alone, that is an absolutely default behaviour for me too.

mholt 12y ago

Click the "window detail" icon above the video and then you can keep browsing around.

panzi 12y ago

> Can't wait for some of the cello solos. Me too! Although I have bought a Magnatune lifetime membership and listen to the Bach Cello Suites there: http://my.magnatune.com/search?w=bach%20cello http://my.magnatune.com/search?w=bach%20cello Well, I made me my own player to stream the music: http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/ http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/

fiatjaf 12y ago
I don't understand from where it came, but the sound is reaching me speakers and it is being awesome. Thanks.
quinndupont 12y ago
I had forgotten about Magnatune! I used to buy all sorts of stuff from them. I always loved their approach, and its great to see that they still exist. Thanks for reminding me that they still exist.

keithpeter 12y ago

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filter=artist#go_2376 http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filt... Might keep you going for a bit. Colin Carr playing four of the six suites. CC licenced, lowish bit-rate mp3s I can't play the All of Bach at all, suspect flash related (gnash/iceweasel on Debian Sid) EDIT: yup, flashplayer-nonfree works. This being HN, do we think a flashplayer based solution is sensible for a long term project such as this? Is mass transcoding at some point in the future likely to be a trivial task?

yaur 12y ago
Poking around it looks like they are hosted on Vimeo and that the default is HTML5/H.264 with fallback to flash. Assuming that iceweasel has H.264 support (IIRC there is a way to get it through ffmpeg) you can probably it could just be that they are doing UA sniffing and don't recognize your browser.
- keithpeter 12y ago
  Good for them. I'll hack around to get the required codec. Thanks.
pfortuny 12y ago
I can watch them on my iPhone so I guess there must be either a fallback solution or something else. It was flash on my PC however.

cmelbye 12y ago

Yup, I clicked the empty background as well and was confused for a second when the video stopped.

HanyouHottie 12y ago

Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. It also annoys me when what appears to be the background of a webpage is actually a link to somewhere, as I inevitably end up clicking it when trying reset the focus.