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Excuse the slightly spammy thread..

I'm working on an idea to help people share stuff they find on net labels or sites like this.

The idea is to create a "mixtape" like file on tinypaste, using markdown like so:

http://tinypaste.com/f13a1a

Then take the final "code" off the end ( the short string after http://tinypaste.com/) and stick it onto http://texttape.heroku.com/

like so:

http://texttape.heroku.com/f13a1a

You should then be able to share as a playlis with the information you wrote

Be cool, and always refer back to the label / source of the music.

For now it's still in testing stage so if you find anything which buggers it up, please let me know.
Otherwise, make some cool playlists and let's see them!

Note: this is still quite early, and design may change a lot & options for customizing the "look" of your mixtape are in the works but your mixtapes will always play fine.

Last edited by mk (Apr 12, 2011 10:39 am)

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This seems like a pretty cool idea...good luck! I'll try and do one when I get time.

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Should mention - the mp3s must be "list" items - denoted by an asterisk or dash.

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hardcore, Australia

I will have a go at this soon. It looks like an awesome idea. Wait, how do i make it happen on text tape?

Last edited by godinpants (Apr 12, 2011 12:44 am)

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Thanks heaps. Please share if you do. I hope it is intuitive and tell me if it isn't

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hardcore, Australia

Had some problems first time round, but got it working.
http://texttape.heroku.com/c589c

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nɐ˙ɯoɔ˙ʎǝupʎs

This is pretty cool. Thanks for including me in that playlist, gip... haha.

I'll mention that I couldn't get it playing in Firefox [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13] but it worked fine in Safari.

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hardcore, Australia

Just a note that at first i tried to just use
* url
and the player didn't pick up tracks (but i noticed it worked in yours?) so then i re-did it using
*[artist name - track title] (url)
and everything worked fine.

Also i think you should make it more clear that all you have to do is take the number off the end of the tinypaste, like www.tinypaste.com/12345 and just use it as www.texttape.heroku.com/12345
i was looking for some kind of setup button to enter my url into.

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Ah, firefox will most likely be lack of mp3 support for the audio tag.. Will look into falling back on flash.

Which "bare" link didn't work? Maybe something slipped thru the regex... I'll do some more testing

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nɐ˙ɯoɔ˙ʎǝupʎs

I tried my hardest to break it... did some purposely annoying things. haha.

http://texttape.heroku.com/4a21d

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hardcore, Australia
mk wrote:

Which "bare" link didn't work? Maybe something slipped thru the regex... I'll do some more testing

None of them loaded in the first time, it just put them in the text section.

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Cool. The brackets in one file name are throwing it off, and showing me that i need better error handling tongue
Will fix later today.

10k - keep throwing something at it until it brakes mate!

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Melbtown, Lolstralia

http://texttape.heroku.com/155fb
WONKZZ

Playback was a firefox issue
Safari took a while to load but is working fine now smile

very cool idea...

Updated... had a file with brackets that was being funny.. fixed now

Last edited by Dot.AY (Apr 12, 2011 3:30 am)

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Orrite champs: http://texttape.heroku.com/65946
Brackets now work, as do escaped file names.
Now for my good friend firefox

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astral cat

ya, not working on firefox sad

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Try it again! Should be good now.