[HN Gopher] Synctify - Sync a music drop with a time in the real... ___________________________________________________________________ Synctify - Sync a music drop with a time in the real world Author : lukew3 Score : 37 points Date : 2023-12-31 15:05 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (synctify.app) (TXT) w3m dump (synctify.app) | lukew3 wrote: | Hello, I created Synctify to help you sync the drop in a song | with the start of the new year or any other noteworthy or casual | event. Enjoy and let me know what you think! | fantasybroker wrote: | Hi. I like the concept but could not figure out what this app | does before I read your comment. I am familiar with the concept | of a "drop" in modern music but didn't immediately associate it | with the feature. An example or a more detailed description | could be helpful. | lukew3 wrote: | Thanks, that's helpful. I'll probably call it a moment | instead of a drop in future descriptions. | NOWHERE_ wrote: | Honestly, drop is the better word. I read the title with | drop and understood what it meant, but I wouldn't have if | you called it moment. | fantasybroker wrote: | Contextually I like the word "drop" more too. Saying | that, I might want to sync a moment in time with a | particular Yann Tiersen's piano phrase that's hardly a | drop, more like a favorite bit that I want to hear right | when the clock strikes midnight. | karmakaze wrote: | Really cool idea. One second is a long time. A drop being | synchronized within a 0.5 second of an event can be a bit of a | miss. | | Would it be possible to make this more precise? | euniceee3 wrote: | I was expecting a visualization of a drop of water that syncs up | with the music by loading two instances of the same song. One to | play, the other do analyze. | getrolled wrote: | Doesn't seem to be working for me. Kind of just a blank screen | when I paste in a link. | lukew3 wrote: | Do you have javascript disabled? | getrolled wrote: | Nope. Using latest chrome. Click activate and it doesn't do | anything. No picture where there should be one and an empty | drop down. | lukew3 wrote: | Bizarre. The dropdown should show a list of devices Spotify | is open on, and should throw an error if no devices found | but activate is clicked. Does the rest of the metadata load | right? Maybe the link you pasted wasn't what was expected. | Your link has to come from clicking Share->Copy Song Link | on Spotify. | thepablohansen wrote: | I ran into the same issue out of nowhere with my Spotify | app a few months ago- after hitting around 300 users. | Apparently, Spotify has a limit [0] on their API quota | for auth (around 25 users or so in theory), but don't | feature the limit very prominently in their | documentation. | | Have you requested and obtained a quota extension? I gave | up on my app altogether after a couple of weeks and | seeing in their documentation "[this] review process can | take up to six weeks." | | 0. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web- | api/concepts... | lukew3 wrote: | Oh no, I didn't know about this. It looks like Spotify | hasn't authorized anybody but me and I would have to add | every user I want to add individually. I don't think that | anybody has been able to use this app. If anybody really | wants to try it out you can DM me on X | https://twitter.com/thelukew3 or follow me there and I'll | post an update when it's fixed. Maybe I'll relaunch next | year. Thanks for the help. | nvr219 wrote: | Very cool | kushie wrote: | i thought this was going to sync lyrics containing a specific | time to that time in real life | pimlottc wrote: | I don't understand what the times mean exactly, e.g. | 0:34 ------- 2:16 | lukew3 wrote: | The timestamp when the "drop" or target moment occurs is at | 0:34. The duration of the song is 2:16 | brysonreece wrote: | I really don't understand the confusion in this thread; it was | immediately apparent to me what the purpose of this tool was | after reading the headline, the UI elements are sensible and | intuitive, it's use case is unique and sound (no pun intended). | Great job OP, a pretty cool project to have under one's own belt. | Meekro wrote: | I've read the website and all the comments and I'm still | totally lost. Guess that means I'm not the target audience? To | me a "music drop" is when someone releases a highly anticipated | new song. | genewitch wrote: | that's "Dropping a new track"; a "drop" in a song is the part | where the music stops and then comes back with more | energy/whatever. | | example (tongue in cheek) https://youtu.be/CJzfTZlEl40?t=38 | drop is at 0:41-0:43 | Meekro wrote: | Thanks, I learned a new thing! | atoav wrote: | The drop within a song is what happens after a build up. | puetzk wrote: | The (beat) "drop" is genre term for a buildup of tension, | sharp pause, and then suddenly resuming at greater | intensity/tempo. Usually associated with EDM/dubstep. | | E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5f-A-vSyw (drop at | 0:45 seconds in the video, thought the countdown to New years | that takes up most of the stage should make that obvious | anyway).... | | Thought it's certainly not a new thing - plenty of classical | music has similar moments, e.g. the 3rd movement to | Beethoven's 5th symphony: https://youtu.be/xAQFJ1YpFaI?t=279 | ("drop" at 5:05 when the horns blast their way in...) | somehnguy wrote: | Seems to be broken atm - I tried a few songs and it fails to load | them. The Spotify API responds with a 403 "User not registered in | the Developer Dashboard" | | https://i.imgur.com/bDdl0yz.png ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-31 23:00 UTC)