Beatbar
Creative
music player
SHOW HN2012
147points
43comments
#132of 1,677 in 2012
Top 8%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
8 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 13 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 1 for, 12 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Creative, wow-inducing hack
From 2 comments
every once in a while one bumps into something fairly useless(no disrespect) but insanely creative wow-&-smile-inducing piece of code here on HN. thanks for this. more power to…
u4 on HNThis is the biggest "wow" I've seen in a long time for something that was otherwise completely useless. The ultimate definition of a hack. Absolutely awesome.
hsb on HN
Nice design and font choice
From 2 comments
Very cool! I think you're limited by the font - strangely enough. But this is very nice. Creative.
prezjordan on HNOn a slightly different note, I liked the choice of font for the main text. The font is Varela Round, from Google Webfonts. (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Varela+Round)
captn3m0 on HN
Works on iPhone and iPad
From 2 comments
To my surprise, this worked perfectly on my iPhone...
gghootch on HNHTML5 fallback seems to work fine on Safari iPad
kristianc on HN
Objections
Fills browser history with entries
From 5 comments
Very cool indeed, but the title should be more like "Media player that spams your browser's history DB"
mansoor-s on HNCool idea! but not cool that it has completely filled my web browsing history, thanks.
flexd on HNIt filled up my history as well. I'm on Chrome on a macbook. I love the idea!
DoublePlusWill on HNFilled mine, too. Firefox 11.
mahcuz on HNChrome dev/beta channel on osx. :) Version 19.0.1084.36 beta
flexd on HN
Does not work with Flash blocked
From 3 comments
If this doesn't work for anyone else, note that beatbar relies on soundcloud, and thus flash. I had flash blocked so was getting a javacript error because beatbar was undefined,…
nowarninglabel on HNHmm, that's odd, I'm using Chrome 19.01 and have no other plugins running asides FlashBlock. Once I disabled flash block everything ran fine. Does this version of Chrome not…
nowarninglabel on HNIt doesn't seem to work in Safari with click2flash, either. Possibly because click2flash doesn't actually disable flash, it just requires a click -- but there's nothing to click…
pvidler on HN
Reload button and favicon flash
From 2 comments
This is using the Ajax-era hash hack to change URL, which is causing problems with history and makes the reload button and favicon flash. I'd suggest using HTML5 history,…
mmahemoff on HNThe reload button flashes like crazy.
rhizome on HN
Requests
Use HTML5 replaceState for URL changes
From 2 comments
This is using the Ajax-era hash hack to change URL, which is causing problems with history and makes the reload button and favicon flash. I'd suggest using HTML5 history,…
mmahemoff on HNWhat about detecting replaceState support and falling back to location.replace if necessary?
georgefox on HN
Show artist or track name
From 1 comment
Nice work:) You could add the name of the artist/melody...
fldrog on HN
Use unicode control characters
From 1 comment
You could use unicode for the controls. I modified the local code to use "‖" (and, due to a bug I guess, the chrome address bar became monospaced). If you need, check some…
julioc on HN
Stop space key from scrolling page
From 1 comment
Awesome work. Just do me one favour: Add "return false" to the function bound to "space", otherwise the page scrolls when I hit it to pause.
badboy on HN
Questions
Why does it fail when Flash is blocked
From 2 comments
Hmm, that's odd, I'm using Chrome 19.01 and have no other plugins running asides FlashBlock. Once I disabled flash block everything ran fine. Does this version of Chrome not…
nowarninglabel on HNI think soundManager requires some special handling for flashblock cases. I didn't test with flashblock on. Thanks for reporting the issue.
jaip on HN