AUDIO-IGNITER: will you be adding ‘waveform’ view?

  • nadasonic

    (@nadasonic)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Just wondering if you are considering adding ‘waveform’ view to this plugin?

    I’m building a portfolio website for my work as a screen composer (music for video, film, TV, games)

    This plugin is ALMOST perfect EXCEPT… it doesn’t have audio ‘waveform’ view..

    This is, I would say, ESSENTIAL (in my line) because ‘clients’ looking for production music take nanoseconds to decide if a piece of music is going to fit their needs..

    To be able to SEE whether a piece is going to ‘build to a climax’ or ‘carry on at the same dynamic throughout’ – without having to listen to the whole thing – is literally make or break…

    If they can click on the waveform and advance playback to each clicked area of the song they can check out whether a 6 minute track is going to work for their production or not – in about 6 seconds, instead of 6 minutes..!

    i.e. if the waveform is like this:

    ………..//////^^^^^^^^

    the client knows the emotion is gonna ramp up in the second half..!

    or if it’s like this:

    ^^^^^^^……….^^^^^^^^

    they know there’s gonna be a restful middle section. etc.

    I don’t understand why developers don’t seem to ‘get’ this!!
    It’s obviously not a difficult thing to implement in a design! (to ‘cache’ a track’s waveform and use that in place of the progress bar?)

    This plugin is brilliant. Add waveform view to it and it will TROUNCE all the others!! 😀

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  • Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there @nadasonic
    Well this is an awesome explanation why waveform is a great addition.
    Thank you so much for your feedback and suggestion. I will add it in our todo list for our future updates.

    Thread Starter nadasonic

    (@nadasonic)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    oh brilliant!
    wasn’t sure whether to even expect a response :D, let alone so soon!
    many thanks!!

    Would you have a rough ballpark of when an iteration might include this?

    Here’s my wishlist if it helps..

    my personal ideal would be waveforms that work like this:

    https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ – (scroll down a bit..)

    They clearly show the ‘shape’ of the music – they change colour as playback advances (so you can clearly see where you are in the piece) – direct clicks on the timeline advance playback to where you click – the waveforms don’t jiggle about like ‘WavePlayer 3’ [not really helpful] – they’re not enormous like ‘wave player’ – they’re simple and solid and do the job perfectly – look at Sonaar’s ‘mp3 player’ waveforms, they don’t really look like the music that’s playing and they are sort of fragmented, not solid, and don’t look nearly as good as the ones I’ve linked..

    What I also like about the player ‘modules’ on the page I’ve linked is that it looks like you can stack as many as you like (and each is complete in itself)
    – They also (and this is key) EACH have buttons for download, cart etc. and each has text fields for stats, composer, title, tempo, duration, key etc. – just brilliant! (I envisage you’d be able to select – in the back end – which fields you want to display on the players)

    I love how your plug-in has the option to be a sticky footer as well – if the ‘current’ waveform could be always replicated in the footer (and click-navigable too) that would be the bee’s knees!

    Thanks Fotis

    Thread Starter nadasonic

    (@nadasonic)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Here’s an example from a ‘production music’ library:

    https://tinyurl.com/y7xsop93

    When you select a track on the page, it populates in the sticky footer player – this one even has time divisions so clients can see exactly how long a track is and where in time the significant changes happen.

    right, thanks. I’ll leave you in peace! 😀

    Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    @nadasonic Thank you so much! Great suggestions

    Thread Starter nadasonic

    (@nadasonic)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for replying.

    Obviously I don’t know anything about the coding side of things but I was just looking at this and wondered if it might be helpful..?

    https://wavesurfer-js.org/

    https://wavesurfer-js.org/plugins/timeline.html

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by nadasonic.
    Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks! These are nice!

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