Freesound Project

http://media.freesound.org/files/newplayer/

This is the player that will be displayed in the "single sample view" page.
You need flash 10!!! ( http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ )

Please let me know your opinions, and if you find any bugs... I'd like to hear about those as well.

For those of you interested in seeing the source code, you can do that right here:
http://github.com/bram/freesound/tree/bae1763d1abe9b4d09ed994ba413d68c4fac5412/sandbox/flash10player


- Bram

Everything seems to work very well. I didn't notice any obvious problems using Safari.

Works fine in Opera as well. I like it!

ehi, what a step ahead! great work!
it works well on Firefox 3.0.5 - Xp.
a minor artifact: the now-playing cursor tremble while loading - then work smooth when sample is loaded; look at the two last samples.
personal: I never liked black background because of the high contrast - example: http://soundcloud.com/ has a lighter palette

Beatiful, let's do this!

Good job!.. being able to jump around inside the files is such a big improvement!

BIG UPS.

Quick test on:

OS X 10.4.11, Safari 3.2.1 browser
Vista Enterprise, Google Chrome browser

Works fine, also the DAW-like spacebar start-stop.

BIAS Peak now also has a black background for wave forms but I much prefer the white in Wavelab or Audiofile Engineering' s Wave Editor. So I am with Cajo on this.

--Peter

hey guys,

the whole freesound 2.0 "color palette" is vey light, and the dark background works quite well with that, to highlight the most important bit of the site (i.e. the waveforms). Have a look here:

http://media.freesound.org/files/design3/single_sample_draft.png


- Bram

hmm, yes. The spectrum view probably requires high contrast to be useful. Also, the wave form is not like the wave forms in a DAW or editor as it contains color coded frequency information.

--Peter

Works fine in IE6 on XP

updated. please clear your cache, and give it another shot. http://media.freesound.org/files/newplayer/

background is still black...

changes:

* should fix the strange jittery playback-position
* the "loading" is now displayed by greying out the part of the waveform that is not loaded yet
* fixed some issues that had to do with clicking the waveform while loading
* moved the playback position cursor behind the controls instead of in front

- Bram

Nice work Bram, looking at the frequency sweep, I am wondering if it would be better to have low-frequencies Red and high-frequencies Blue? At least that relates colour to wavelength as you may expect.

I know this is the reverse of what Freesound has been using.

What's wrong with the black background? OK with me.

digifish

You're not the first to ask, digifish I agree that if we had done this way back it would have made total sense. But now that people are used to the colors...

- bram

Everything looks absolutely amazing! I am really looking forward to this!

My only request is that the player loops sounds seamlessly. When looping a sound like a breakbeat or something using the current player, there is a noticeable gap between playbacks. It's not like it's a bug or anything, but it would certainly be a very helpful feature. I don't know how difficult that is to do with flash. I know flash has some problems with looping sounds.

btw, the player worked just fine in Google Chrome 1.0 on Windows Vista Home.

I really liked some of those sounds and the GUI is fantastic! Is it possible for you to link us the original samples, please?