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Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art

by tylerdavis on 12/10/14, 6:22 PM with 26 comments

  • by tylerdavis on 12/10/14, 6:31 PM

    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!

  • by tpbstats on 12/10/14, 6:55 PM

    This is OK Computer by Radiohead with the sprinkled donut theme: http://i.imgur.com/whVq5uE.png

    Feedback:

    - Overall really nice interface

    - At first the messages you get while waiting for the wave are really nice, but then they get slightly annoying. Some kind of indicator of how long it takes would be better. Processing time was acceptable.

    - Frankly I think the visualisation is uninteresting. I am not interested in having this hanging on the wall. I tried a wide variety of settings, but it remained uninteresting due to the basic form of the sound wave.

    - Tried the record option afterwards. The wave was a little more interesting, and I preferred that experience much more. I would like to be able to play back the sound I recorded and listen to it while I can see the progress on the sound wave.

  • by thatswrong0 on 12/10/14, 6:58 PM

    So it's basically the SoundCloud song visualizer, flipped across the x-axis, colored by amplitude, and printed for me. I feel like the visuals need quite a bit more "wow!" to make that worth it to me.

  • by b6 on 12/10/14, 6:53 PM

    Please consider partnering with Fracture! I have no affiliation with them, I'm just a big fan and live in the same city.

    https://www.fractureme.com/

  • by tbirdz on 12/10/14, 7:11 PM

    In addition to the time domain visualization I would be interested in a frequency domain visualization as well. Spectrum Analysis plots can look very beautiful especially with a well chosen color scheme.

  • by mfkp on 12/10/14, 7:16 PM

    Would be nice to have a slider to adjust the vertical height of the bars (I want to squish the whole thing down a bit, so it takes up less vertical space).

    Anyway, very slick interface, looking good!

  • by pavel_lishin on 12/10/14, 7:54 PM

    Heads up: Ghostery prevents typekit from loading by default, which completely blocks anything from rendering on the landing page.

  • by lukasm on 12/10/14, 7:16 PM

    Is there a demo somewhere? I don't have a mp3.