Re: [backstage] Want a quick bit of beta-testing fun?
Many thanks to everyone for their help. As David Riddle spots, this came out of beta yesterday at around 11.30am, and is now the live player for all users. On 3/1/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any thoughts of making the new player in to a widget James? Widget goodness is coming very shortly! We've pre-release versions for most OS's, but this is 10% time work at present, so no timescale. We are just about to release a clever thing around all our archive material, but don't want to tell Tristan quite yet. ;) On the technical side, Christian O'Connell sounds a lot better this morning. did someone hit the bass button overnight? I have just heard Oasis Live Forever, and it is about 3 dB quieter than a equivalent mp3 copy in iTunes, but sounds about as good. The difference is huge overall, much much better than yesterday. Do you use those sliding multi-band FM compressors? I know that the BBC used to allow each producer to set-up their own for each show, so the same song would sound different depending on which show you heard it on. That led to quite a lot of confusion :-) I know we were doing some work yesterday on the processing, as a result of this mailing list. -- http://james.cridland.net/
Re: [backstage] Want a quick bit of beta-testing fun?
Are there any thoughts of making the new player in to a widget James? On the technical side, Christian O'Connell sounds a lot better this morning. did someone hit the bass button overnight? I have just heard Oasis Live Forever, and it is about 3 dB quieter than a equivalent mp3 copy in iTunes, but sounds about as good. The difference is huge overall, much much better than yesterday. Do you use those sliding multi-band FM compressors? I know that the BBC used to allow each producer to set-up their own for each show, so the same song would sound different depending on which show you heard it on. That led to quite a lot of confusion :-) Have fun RichE On 28 Feb 2007, at 15:50, James Cridland wrote: On 2/28/07, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the first that I have seen of this player. Works pretty well in Safari but the overall sound compression is absolutely awful. There is no way I could listen to that for pleasure. Even the adverts are pumping. that has to be from your audio source. Sorry about that. Within iTunes it is a lot better Curious. It's the same stream within iTunes and the Flash Player in Safari (our MP3 stream): there should be no difference at all. But - noted. Our processing is under review (as I tire of saying!); and I do think it's a little over-eager on the online feed. It was optimised for 20k mono, not 128k stereo. On 2/28/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Pandora) Anyone know of any technical reasons why we couldn't have a similar UK service? I'm reasonably sure that an established UK player could get the rights. You'd think so. But the rights (we've looked) are so expensive as to put it completely out of anyone's league. Indeed, last.fm aren't fully-licenced. Cheers for the feedback so far. Much appreciated. -- http://james.cridland.net/
[backstage] Want a quick bit of beta-testing fun?
If you're a Virgin Radio VIP, go to *http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/*http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/and click the link marked participate in our beta (it's just under the Listen live now link if you're logged in). All feedback is very welcome: please use the link you'll find within the player, so issues all get logged. It goes live tomorrow! ;) If you're not a VIP and really don't want to register, please GTalk me ( james.cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll give you another way in. -- http://james.cridland.net/
Re: [backstage] Want a quick bit of beta-testing fun?
On 28/02/07, Jakob Fix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something we're lacking in the UK is a Pandora ( http://pandora.com/) like service; indeed, I had to put an American Zip code in to continue to use it, it seems there is a gap in the market for someone to fill. what about last.fm by the Audioscrobbler people? positively based in the uk, it seems: http://www.last.fm/about/contact/ -- cheers, Jakob. Just had a look at them, and they look good, and much more fully featured than Pandora in many respects though they don't have a pause button (the FAQ says this is because of licensing reasons, surprise surprise), and the personal radio station aspect is only available to subscribers, but they've got a very good price (£1.50\month), so I'll look into it, and may take them up. Thanks for the link! Vijay
