Reviews for NG Audio Elevator

[Coop]

It's been done

Yes, it's a novel piece of programming, but a user named Cyberdevil did this idea literally to death a few years back. Granted, yours is more all encompassing than his, but it's still a direct port to the Audio Portal, though severely limited.

A play / pause button should be able to play and pause the track. This just plays a new track from the start over the top of it, making the whole thing a horrid mess. You really need to work on the programming, to make things like this work, even something as basic as a program like this one.

Ideas to go forward that I could give you would include a playlist function - something that prior to the 2011/2012 redesign, the Audio Portal does not have, where you line up half a dozen or so tracks and let them fly. This could also be incorporated with a random "shuffle" function, where people could tab certain genres that they wish to listen to, which could generate a few bits and pieces to assist the user. A display feature, which shows a few key pieces of information about the track - genre, title, author, date and so forth would be useful, otherwise, I'm not seeing any benefit in listening to a piece from the Audio Portal, without actually going there myself.

What's the target market? Are you aiming to export this to other sites and have people come to Newgrounds from there? If so and your programming works, a great little piece of viral marketing. If not, this seems to be a dead end piece that you've merely used for practice.

[Review Request Club]

Surn responds:

I looked up Cyberdevil's account and I didn't see anything that looked like any audio programs. So to those out of the know I should be safe.

As for the play pause button, it does actually pause and play the music, (at least when I try it). I tried it with 3 different songs and it works properly. What I did find, in light of your statement, was that it does malfunction if you try it before the song is loaded. Perhaps there are technical difficulties on your end.

As for your suggestions on improvements/additions they would be indeed nice to have. I do believe I could integrate a user-specified playlist function and perhaps even a shuffle function for that too. However, that's not the point of what I'm going for with this. As for genre specifications/filters, that would also be nice to have, especially if there are particular genres one find offensive (like rap). If I could make it I probably would. As for title. author and date (ID3 information) I can do that, but it only works as a desktop application. I was going for simplicity with this application, so minimalism/lack of other functions is arguably it's charm.

As for not seeing the advantage of this: its primary use is to automatically play songs one-by-one as the user does other things like animate or play Minecraft. When one song finishes or is skipped the player automatically pulls and plays the one before it without need for user input. With just the audio portal, you could accomplish the same effect by sitting there listening to the song, subtracting 1 from the audio number and hitting enter when you're done with the song- but then it would require more attention.

As for my target audience I really didn't have one in mind. As for my goal: I mainly wanted to make a more convenient way to listen to the recent audio portal submissions while otherwise occupied. I thought "hey, why not make it a flash submission? Other people might like it.". So I sent it into Newgrounds.

Thanks for reviewing.

[megadrivesonic]

intersting idea

i have to say you have an interesting idea with this

Surn responds:

Thanks. Hopefully you will find it useful.