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Synctify – Sync a music drop with a time in the real world
- pimlottc 3y agoI don’t understand what the times mean exactly, e.g. 0:34 ———- 2:16
- lukew3 3y agoThe timestamp when the "drop" or target moment occurs is at 0:34. The duration of the song is 2:16
- lukew3 3y agoHello, I created Synctify to help you sync the drop in a song with the start of the new year or any other noteworthy or casual event. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
- fantasybroker 3y agoHi. I like the concept but could not figure out what this app does before I read your comment. I am familiar with the concept of a "drop" in modern music but didn't immediately associate it with the feature. An example or a more detailed description could be helpful.
- lukew3 3y agoThanks, that's helpful. I'll probably call it a moment instead of a drop in future descriptions.
- NOWHERE_ 3y agoHonestly, drop is the better word. I read the title with drop and understood what it meant, but I wouldn’t have if you called it moment.
- fantasybroker 3y agoContextually I like the word "drop" more too. Saying that, I might want to sync a moment in time with a particular Yann Tiersen's piano phrase that's hardly a drop, more like a favorite bit that I want to hear right when the clock strikes midnight.
- karmakaze 3y agoReally cool idea. One second is a long time. A drop being synchronized within a 0.5 second of an event can be a bit of a miss. Would it be possible to make this more precise?
- euniceee3 3y agoI was expecting a visualization of a drop of water that syncs up with the music by loading two instances of the same song. One to play, the other do analyze.
- getrolled 3y agoDoesn't seem to be working for me. Kind of just a blank screen when I paste in a link.
- lukew3 3y agoDo you have javascript disabled?
- getrolled 3y agoNope. Using latest chrome. Click activate and it doesn’t do anything. No picture where there should be one and an empty drop down.
- lukew3 3y agoBizarre. The dropdown should show a list of devices Spotify is open on, and should throw an error if no devices found but activate is clicked. Does the rest of the metadata load right? Maybe the link you pasted wasn't what was expected. Your link has to come from clicking Share->Copy Song Link on Spotify.
- thepablohansen 3y agoI ran into the same issue out of nowhere with my Spotify app a few months ago- after hitting around 300 users. Apparently, Spotify has a limit [0] on their API quota for auth (around 25 users or so in theory), but don't feature the limit very prominently in their documentation. Have you requested and obtained a quota extension? I gave up on my app altogether after a couple of weeks and seeing in their documentation "[this] review process can take up to six weeks." 0. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts...
- lukew3 3y agoOh no, I didn't know about this. It looks like Spotify hasn't authorized anybody but me and I would have to add every user I want to add individually. I don't think that anybody has been able to use this app. If anybody really wants to try it out you can DM me on X https://twitter.com/thelukew3 https://twitter.com/thelukew3 or follow me there and I'll post an update when it's fixed. Maybe I'll relaunch next year. Thanks for the help.
- nvr219 3y agoVery cool
- kushie 3y agoi thought this was going to sync lyrics containing a specific time to that time in real life
- brysonreece 3y agoI really don’t understand the confusion in this thread; it was immediately apparent to me what the purpose of this tool was after reading the headline, the UI elements are sensible and intuitive, it’s use case is unique and sound (no pun intended). Great job OP, a pretty cool project to have under one’s own belt.
- Meekro 3y agoI've read the website and all the comments and I'm still totally lost. Guess that means I'm not the target audience? To me a "music drop" is when someone releases a highly anticipated new song.
- genewitch 3y agothat's "Dropping a new track"; a "drop" in a song is the part where the music stops and then comes back with more energy/whatever. example (tongue in cheek) https://youtu.be/CJzfTZlEl40?t=38 https://youtu.be/CJzfTZlEl40?t=38 drop is at 0:41-0:43
- Meekro 3y agoThanks, I learned a new thing!
- noduerme 3y agoLifelong musician - I thought from the title that it meant dropping a track on spotify at a specific release time. (I imagined, like, putting out one song from a new album at midnight every night). Most people I know would call this a "break", as in the build-up to where the beat breaks. Probably a generational thing.
- kibibu 3y agoAlso lifelong musician and knew immediately what it meant. "The drop" is fundamentally different but not unrelated to a break - indeed typically it's after a break. ("break" and "breakbeat" are also overloaded terms, particularly in electronic music)
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- somehnguy 3y agoSeems to be broken atm - I tried a few songs and it fails to load them. The Spotify API responds with a 403 "User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" https://i.imgur.com/bDdl0yz.png https://i.imgur.com/bDdl0yz.png
- jungleexhibit 3y agoCool to see someone created this finally, have been manually calculating start times for syncing a drop for a long time. Hope you get it back online soon!