BitMidi
Consumer and social
midi file archive
SHOW HN2018
168points
80comments
#227of 2,155 in 2018
Top 11%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 5 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nostalgic and fun idea
From 4 comments
Awesome job - I’m about to cry from the memories this brings back. I really appreciate the effort put into porting a proper MIDI player to the browser while keeping page…
j0wy on HNWhat an amazing idea. Thanks for putting the effort in, you've given me a lot of nostalgia feels.
gregjw on HNThank you, this is awesome! I used to collect my favourite MIDI tunes around the web (and I still have them on my HD). I always thought how amazing it was to have so much music…
arayh on HNReminded me of the first customizable ringtones, thanks :)
lalos on HN
Impressive technical execution and small size
From 2 comments
That's a pretty amazing technical feat!
coding123 on HNAwesome job - I’m about to cry from the memories this brings back. I really appreciate the effort put into porting a proper MIDI player to the browser while keeping page…
j0wy on HN
Objections
Playback errors and broken play button in some browsers
From 4 comments
Currently site seems to have errors: Error – this._lib is undefined Error – HTTP request error. JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Kim_Bruning on HNWhen I try to play anything I get: You just blew our server's mind Error – play() called after destroy() This is in Chrome 68.0.3440.106.
dmd on HNI can download the midi files but I can't seem to get anything to play directly on the site. The play button is simply non-functional piece of text with an icon next to it. This…
bartread on HNNo sound on iOS
werber on HN
Playback speed too fast in Chromium and Firefox on Linux
From 1 comment
Just a heads up in Chromium version 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) the midi's seem to be playing back at 10x or faster. In Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit) at 2x or so. I'm on…
blobert on HN
Sound quality differs from desktop timidity
From 1 comment
Great job putting all this together! Brings back memories. Out of curiosity I downloaded a .mid file to compare it with my local timidity install. The quality of the later is way…
jek0 on HN
Requests
Add ratings and tags for browsing
From 2 comments
This is incredible. Could you add ratings and/or play counts?
muglug on HNlove these memories :-) a category / theme browsing method would be added value i think
wickedOne on HN
Add MIDI file contributions and archive downloads
From 2 comments
I'm so glad this exists! The feature of playing a MIDI file in a webpage was one of the things that inspired me to learn web development when I was 10 years old. I'm especially…
ravenstine on HNReally cool! Do you offer collection archives for download, for distributed archival purposes? It seems like this archive…
vortico on HN
Support for custom soundfonts
From 1 comment
Thank you, Feross! I can confirm that this sounded exactly the way it did when I last heard it in the pre-Napster days: https://bitmidi.com/sublime-wrong-way-mid Any chance of…
Mizza on HN
Questions
Why did browsers remove MIDI support?
From 1 comment
> I never realized midi support had declined so much all over I actually have no idea why MIDI support was removed from browsers. I understand that <bgsound> was a bad idea –…
feross on HN
How are MIDI files categorized?
From 1 comment
I'm interested in finding ways to better organize the MIDI files. I'm curious how you figured out which category to put each MIDI file in on your website. Was that done manually…
feross on HN
Alternatives named
MIDI Delight
From 1 comment
The tricky part with the 100k downloads is that you do not have all the meta data for each file. You just have the filename, so some are just called “index.mid”. Which I guess is…
redonkulus on HN
vgmusic.com
From 1 comment
No one mentioned https://vgmusic.com/ ? My favorite site for videogame midis.
FrozenVoid on HN
Van Basco's MIDI Player
From 1 comment
My favorite MIDI player back in the day was http://www.vanbasco.com/ It had controls for transposition and tempo. It had visualization of the individual tracks, ability to mute…
gugagore on HN