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Post by Soren on Jan 19, 2015 10:14:45 GMT -5
So I was thinking, if this is a music site why not have a music box? It could be a sort plug in that plays music while you're on the site, I don't know how or even IF this is possible but if it is you should see to the idea
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Post by TheGuitahHeroe on Jan 19, 2015 10:20:49 GMT -5
I wonder if I could stream Radio Whirlwind on here..............
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Post by tobinus on Jan 19, 2015 13:46:15 GMT -5
I think it would be challenging to have a music player of sorts that continued playing when leaving the webpage (ie. posting a reply, checking another thread…). It might be better to just link to the radio's home page.
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Post by Darius Oak on Jan 19, 2015 17:53:10 GMT -5
This KINDA fits the music box idea:
I think that we should have a library. I don't have any big ideas as to how it would be run, but I imagine it being organized by artist or by genre, something like that.
On a separate note, I know that there are people here who have released at least one album (see: TGH). If something like that happens, we should definitely put that at the front of our news bulletin. In fact, a news bulletin of sorts would be an excellent addition for when this forum gets a bit bigger.
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Post by lala19357 on Jan 20, 2015 3:27:35 GMT -5
The only other thing to consider about having music stream when people access the forum is the loading time for the audio files. For people with slow Internet connections, I wonder how their browsing experience would be affected. Maybe make something available but not play it immediately by default? That way people can listen if they have the network capability, but not be slowed down if they don't?
Tobinus makes a good point about music carrying over - I think that if done correctly, there are some Java add-ins that would carry across the forum. Problem is that in my experience the music player likes to stay in the active tab, carrying over to non-forum pages. We would need to play with that option, as I'm sure there's a way to do it properly.
I really like the music library idea. We would either need to come up with a way the public could upload files or somebody would have to maybe independently upload files emailed to a specific forum email to some file service, like a Dropbox or Box.net account? I would be happy with helping to figure out a file solution going forward. I will be building a server sometime this week, so for temporary storage I can always store a limited amount of files.
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Post by briman0094 on Jan 23, 2015 15:37:59 GMT -5
It would be cool to have a "music shoutbox" where we can throw in WIPs that others can play (only at request of course...auto-play music is a bit annoying).
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