Audio Files

Hypersphere · 31 Jul 2015, 01:31

If I wished to post some audio recordings of keyboards on DT, which type(s) of audio files are allowed? Thanks.

Edit: If audio files have to be links to a web hosting service for audio, I would welcome suggestions for good web hosting services -- especially free ones. Thanks again.

Muirium · 31 Jul 2015, 01:46

YouTube's the only one you can embed. YouTube requires video, of course, but iMovie on your Mac can quickly make a slideshow set to your audio recording, using whatever pictures you choose. Like I've done many times in my reviews.

Anything else will be a bare and ugly link.

Hypersphere · 31 Jul 2015, 02:25

Excellent, as always, Mu. I will check this out. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of the various keyboards when I was making the audio recordings, although I do have images of the audio waveforms.

pyrelink · 31 Jul 2015, 02:34

Just out of curiosity, would these happen to be before and after sound tests of your Topre silencing rings? That was the first thing I planned to do when I received mine tomorrow.

Also I agree. Just post the audio with some pictures, or text in iMovie and post to YouTube.

Hypersphere · 31 Jul 2015, 14:14

Yes, I have audio of a standard HHKB along with audio files of a standard HHKB with rings and a HHKB with both 55g domes and silencing rings. For other comparisons, I've made recordings of several other keyboards, such as an IBM XT, Novatouch, Poker II, and RF87U 55. I will try the recommendations to post to YouTube with links here on DT.

Muirium · 31 Jul 2015, 15:10

Remember to use the [youtube] tags to embed them when you're done. Hit the quote button on my post above with videos in it, to see how the formatting works. Note: you want the alphanumeric YouTube ID of your videos, rather than the full URL. That trick throws a lot of careless people off!

Chyros · 31 Jul 2015, 20:57

Awesome, that sounds very interesting! I'm always curious to hear how keyboards and switches sound, so this should be good

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Muirium · 31 Jul 2015, 21:22

Then here's a thread for you:

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/chr ... t9497.html

I must update my collection. Dropbox is unsuited to this archival work. All my links are dead.

davkol · 01 Aug 2015, 11:30

The dependence on YouTube is quite ironic here.

Muirium · 01 Aug 2015, 12:42

I know. YouTube stinks. But I don't write PHPbb. Life's too short!

I do, however, archive all my files. They can be uploaded to DT if we ever get around to supporting sound and video.

davkol · 01 Aug 2015, 12:51

I don't see how Dropbox is any better than Google/YouTube. (I also hate when people link to anything stored at Dropbox, because of loading times.)

Either audio-file attachments get allowed, or they have to be stored at any third party and linked (I prefer Freesound.org then).

Muirium · 01 Aug 2015, 12:55

Ha, I was just deleting my mention of Dropbox when you posted that!

They also stink. Fine service for personal file syncing. (Though I still loathe them for ditching Tiger after all these years.) Not much good for anything else. Fuckers purged my publicly linked audio recordings just because I moved directories!

Fancy building us embedded sound/video support? I can't code for shit.

davkol · 01 Aug 2015, 13:13

I honestly don't see the need. Just link the file. Hardcore users will download it or feed the link to MPlayer or something; the rest has a simple player embedded in the browser.

Muirium · 01 Aug 2015, 13:18

None of that shit works in Safari on Wikipedia. So even I don't bother putzing around with audio there at all. Download a file? Fuggedaboudit.

Whatever we do needs to be as good or better than the YouTube embeds.

davkol · 01 Aug 2015, 13:58

Have you tried contacting Apple's customer service? That's clearly an issue on their side.

Muirium · 01 Aug 2015, 14:08

Nah. Didn't you hear? Steve died a few years ago. He used to be the point man for email enquiries.

I put the Wikipedia problem down to those guys being open source nazis. Couldn't possibly use industry standard file types. Won't someone please think of the freedom! From actual usability…

Hypersphere · 03 Aug 2015, 02:09

I've posted my first audio clips in a new thread:

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/aud ... 11269.html

Thanks for all the pointers.