[tylerdavis]

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!

[anigbrowl]

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).

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]

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.

[Fuzzwah]

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]

Chelsea, my partner on this project said the same exact thing about the custom color palettes.

Let me know how it goes tonight!

[Fuzzwah]

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/ I was kind of expecting that it would bring me to this comment thread.

[tylerdavis]

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

[glaugh]

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]

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.