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Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, s

Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!

Fuzzwah 12y ago
The link in the referrer detection note: "Hello Hacker News friend! Thanks for stopping by. Once you're done checking out SoundViz, we'd love to get your feedback." ... leads to https://www.soundviz.com/ https://www.soundviz.com/ I was kind of expecting that it would bring me to this comment thread.
- tylerdavis 12y ago
  Hey, thanks for pointing that out. It should be pointing to the correct location now.
Fuzzwah 12y ago
As a proud Dad of an 11 month old chatter box I can see the appeal of this. I'll record some of her yabbering tonight and see what it looks like. If I went through with the purchase I think I'd couple it with a "press a button and playback the original sound" setup, as that would be pretty easy to add to the rfid triggered music playback system I've got one of my R-Pi's rigged up for. I just played around with a test file and was really impressed by the slider controls to allow modifications. Very neat stuff. The only suggestion I could think of was perhaps an option for me to add my own colormap?
- tylerdavis 12y ago
  Chelsea, my partner on this project said the same exact thing about the custom color palettes. Let me know how it goes tonight!
glaugh 12y ago
Really good stuff, really nicely done, I love it. And good pre-Christmas launch timing :) Small issue: I grabbed an .m4a, uploaded it, and the screen just sat there. Console errors and whatnot. Didn't take a rocket scientist to guess that .mp3 might work better (it did). So I'm all good, but just reporting it. Again, really good stuff, congrats.
- tylerdavis 12y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out. Right now, we're supporting wav and mp3, but I'll be adding a couple things in the very near future - greater support for various file formats, and better error handling for the ones we don't support.
anigbrowl 12y ago
As an audio professional, I just find this strange - rather as if I offered to turn your favorite picture into a record you could listen to whenever you want on high quality vinyl (all of which end up sounding very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQtdEMFJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQtdEMFJc). I'm curious to see whether there is a market for this, but I already spend so much of my time looking at waveforms I'm not sure I want to look at more. Have you considered spectrograms or spectral phase diagrams, both of which can be considerably more visually interesting than a straight waveform?
- tylerdavis 12y ago
  You're not wrong. I wanted to focus on one implementation first, given the challenges, but I'd like to go the spectral phase route next.

Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!

Fuzzwah 12y ago

The link in the referrer detection note: "Hello Hacker News friend! Thanks for stopping by. Once you're done checking out SoundViz, we'd love to get your feedback." ... leads to https://www.soundviz.com/ https://www.soundviz.com/ I was kind of expecting that it would bring me to this comment thread.

tylerdavis 12y ago
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. It should be pointing to the correct location now.

Fuzzwah 12y ago

As a proud Dad of an 11 month old chatter box I can see the appeal of this. I'll record some of her yabbering tonight and see what it looks like. If I went through with the purchase I think I'd couple it with a "press a button and playback the original sound" setup, as that would be pretty easy to add to the rfid triggered music playback system I've got one of my R-Pi's rigged up for. I just played around with a test file and was really impressed by the slider controls to allow modifications. Very neat stuff. The only suggestion I could think of was perhaps an option for me to add my own colormap?

tylerdavis 12y ago
Chelsea, my partner on this project said the same exact thing about the custom color palettes. Let me know how it goes tonight!

glaugh 12y ago

Really good stuff, really nicely done, I love it. And good pre-Christmas launch timing :) Small issue: I grabbed an .m4a, uploaded it, and the screen just sat there. Console errors and whatnot. Didn't take a rocket scientist to guess that .mp3 might work better (it did). So I'm all good, but just reporting it. Again, really good stuff, congrats.

tylerdavis 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. Right now, we're supporting wav and mp3, but I'll be adding a couple things in the very near future - greater support for various file formats, and better error handling for the ones we don't support.

anigbrowl 12y ago

As an audio professional, I just find this strange - rather as if I offered to turn your favorite picture into a record you could listen to whenever you want on high quality vinyl (all of which end up sounding very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQtdEMFJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQtdEMFJc). I'm curious to see whether there is a market for this, but I already spend so much of my time looking at waveforms I'm not sure I want to look at more. Have you considered spectrograms or spectral phase diagrams, both of which can be considerably more visually interesting than a straight waveform?

tylerdavis 12y ago
You're not wrong. I wanted to focus on one implementation first, given the challenges, but I'd like to go the spectral phase route next.