2016/Nuremberg/music

Barnaby

wants to do livestreaming on his website

no easy way of livestreaming audio or video and archiving it back on your own site

when I start livestreaming, want it to post a note that says "barnaby is livestreaming now" and shows a little "play" on the home page

how do you host audio and video, make it work in different browsers

Jeremy

wants an audio post type. the live part isn't as important.

Aaron

wants to record audio while on a phone, upload later as a private post, then be able to make them public later

also wants to livestream video for events like indiewebcamp

Barnaby

Icecast - radio.waterpigs.co.uk proxies to icecast built in web server
can be configured to record and archive all streams
for audio livestreaming, has all the pieces in place, just needs to build a UI around it

getusermedia - javascript API to get access to the camera

microphone access gives you WAV data, a common problem for actually using the data. need a way to upload the data in a compressed format

hosting challenges - how to host and serve large files?

Amazon S3 - put files there and forget about them
give out URLs like media.example.com/xxxxxxxx.mp3 which is a temporary redirect to the S3 URL
that lets you move the files to something else later if you want, without having to change your URLs

Aaron

wants a soundcloud-like player for music on his site

fragmentions for audio

MP3 Javascript Encoder

Records a WAV file in the browser, converts to mp3, embeds an audio tag with a data URI after conversion is complete.

(discussion about midi)

UI concerns / use cases

note vs blog post

post quick audio to my site, no editing, no captions
podcast / music - lots of work put into the audio, lots of surrounding information like title, composer, transcription, notes

audio recording UIs can be improved, like how Instagram has improved video editing on mobile to be just good enough to publish a less rough video