AudioBooTH
I thought it would be appropriate to post this here, although I have Boo'd about it.
I'm putting together a small Bootique project called AudioBooTH : it's a simple idea -
- You record a 60 second long piece of your own music
- You post it as a Boo with @AudioBooTH in the title
- The AudioBooTH.net site will pull all relevant Boo's in and embed them as individual content items
- You will then be free to add accurate taxonomy - select genre, include a kit list, etc - or simply leave the entry as is.
- Visitors to the site will be able to vote on each entry and daily charts will be displayed.
- Detailed search of AudioBoo's submitted to the AudioBooTH will be possible
- You will be able to sumbit tutortials and embed video's to help other's get started
That's all there is to it.
If you'd like to be involved, just follow AudioBooth here on the site, @AudioBooTH on twitter, or keep an eye on www.audiobooth.net in the coming week.
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2 Posted by ColtSeavers on 10 May, 2009 06:36 AM
http://audiobooth.net/
Alpha build up. To submit content simply include @AudioBooTH in your title. (not case sensitive). Very early stage. Just wanted to see if I could make it work. Working nicely - not live updating atm till i'm sure it's rock solid. Voting built in.
No user sign ups yet, since ideally i want to allow anyone signed in to AudioBoo to not have to sign in again. I've implemented OAuth...just waiting on API or some instructions.
The other big issue i have s that the username is not exported with the Atom/RSS feed. I'll get there.
Would love some feedback as i'm a newbie at all this.
Cheers
Colt
3 Posted by thomas on 10 May, 2009 09:21 AM
Hi,
Looks interesting. I'm trying to get the API into a workable shape, this could be a useful test of everything. I'll let you know when we've got something to play with.
What would you need to do with the API? Is it just browsing feeds or would you want to update tags / titles, etc?
I'll have a look at allowing remote-logins onto the audioboo site, see what we can do..
Cheers, Thomas.
4 Posted by ColtSeavers on 10 May, 2009 02:38 PM
Cheers for the reply Thomas.
Yep, taxonomy is king i guess. Tags and Titles would be best so as to make the import call 'light'. remote logins would be ace! - as would comment feeds - I'd rather not have comments on AudioBooTH as it duplicates things - keep the comments on the original Boo on the AudioBoo sight. If you were to implement Disqus comments, that would be simple but i guess it's a little 'heavy'? I've embedded Gravatar for consistency if we end up needing to make people sign in.
I've left 'everyboo' there while i build....to check it's working. at the moment though it's simply pulling in the feed and parsing it....but if you click there you'll get a better idea of what's coming through well, and what isn't. My preference for the Simplepie Parser may be costing me :P
I'd love to have web upload of boo's. It would help the 'sound/audio tweakers' massively and expand our options for sharing audio. Do you have any plans? I could do it with SoundCloud, but don't really want to as I imagine AudioBooTH as a complimentary / niche 'friend' of audio boo - not an alternative service!
Regards
5 Posted by ColtSeavers on 10 May, 2009 05:59 PM
just keeping things in one place :
http://audioboo.fm/boos/17381-audiobooth-rough-alpha-site-up-audiobooth#comments
http://audioboo.fm/boos/16766-introducing-audiobooth-audiobooth
6 Posted by adam on 10 May, 2009 07:58 PM
Hello, I'm also currently involved in the development of AudioBooTH.
We're currently discussing different options about how users sign into the service. Our ideal solution would be for users to authenticate their AB account through the API (much like Facebook Connect or OAuth).
The way we propose doing it at the moment is that on registration, the user is sent to AB to authenticate their AB account. Their AB acount should have the same name as their ABTH account to avoid confusion.
Alternatively we could implement a system where as long as you are signed into your AB account, you can comment and rate samples on ABTH. This however would mean that all AB users are automatically assigned an account on our site. This would therefore mean that we need a feed of new AB users.
Let us know what you think about these ideas. Obviously, this is all at your discression and subject to change.
Hope to hear from you soon. Adam
7 Posted by ColtSeavers on 11 May, 2009 10:43 AM
Just wondering - is it you tweaking your RSS output today, or is it me breaking AudioBooTH :? Probably the latter :P
Support Staff 8 Posted by jdelStrother on 11 May, 2009 10:46 AM
Heya - We haven't touched the rss output today, so I guess it's your fault :p
(Incidentally - are you using .atom or .rss? Our rss feed is there for compatibility, but the atom feed is considered the 'official' source.)
9 Posted by ColtSeavers on 11 May, 2009 01:13 PM
Ah, thought so after i'd checked some more - i'd changed the way the site dealt with elements of the feed and messed the taxonomy up :P rebuilding from ground up as made a fundemental error :P guess it's all a learning curve and i'm enjoying it alot.
I'm using atom. only way i can parse the level of detail I need. Pleased to report that a test build i've made works well and your Atom feed is full of info - which is really cool!
cheers for letting me know.
10 Posted by ColtSeavers on 12 May, 2009 09:08 AM
Alpha 2 up and working well. Not running a cron regularly yet pending some testing tonight. Hope you approve.
11 Posted by skattyadz on 14 May, 2009 03:15 AM
Hi there. Just a quick suggestion regarding the feed output. We're currently using http://audioboo.fm/tag/audiobooth.atom to pick up Boos linking to audioboo.
Our problem is that our parser for importing the feeds into our site can only interpret elements inside the XML style tags. The problem is that the mp3, and the images are all embedded in a block of html, which can only be read as a single block. At the moment we have to just copy the whole html block from "
<div class='audio_clip boowrapper' id='audio_clip_19404'>" into each entry which is less than ideal.
We don't wish to add to your workload too much, but ideally we would need the following elements in a feed:
Title
Date Posted
Uploader
Gravitar
Uploaded image
MP3 address
Tags
Link to audioboo post
In a perfect world, being able to have a list of comments for each entry would be awesome, but not essential at this stage.
Sorry if using the Atom feed is not ideal for you, but we figure that at the moment, it is the best way to share information.
Thanks again,
Adam
12 Posted by skattyadz on 14 May, 2009 03:19 AM
Hi there. Just a quick suggestion regarding the feed output. We're currently using http://audioboo.fm/tag/audioboot... to pick up Boos linking to audiobooth.
Our problem is that our parser for importing the feeds into our site can only interpret elements inside the XML style tags. The problem is that the mp3, and the images are all embedded in a block of html, which can only be read as a single block. At the moment we have to just copy the whole html block from "div class='audio_clip boowrapper' id='audio_clip_19404'" into each entry which is less than ideal.
We don't wish to add to your workload too much, but ideally we would need the following elements in a feed:
Title,
Date Posted, Uploader, Gravitar, Uploaded image, MP3 address, Tags, Link to audioboo post
In a perfect world, being able to have a list of comments for each entry would be awesome, but not essential at this stage.
Sorry if using the Atom feed is not ideal for you, but we figure that at the moment, it is the best way to share information.
Thanks again, Adam
PS: Sorry about the double post - didn't come out as expected
13 Posted by skattyadz on 17 May, 2009 10:16 PM
Another note - the RSS feed we're using doesnt seem to update when someone adds our tag to their boo. This boo should be on the feed, but isn't. http://audioboo.fm/boos/14754-crayon-box-boo
Is it set to regenerate the feed on a timer, or does it just add new boos to it, ignoring changes in the old boos?
14 Posted by ColtSeavers on 24 Jun, 2009 01:31 PM
Forgot to say, the problems addressed here are dealt with. Cheers.
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15 Posted by system on 12 Sep, 2010 08:21 PM
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