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Post by Zi on Jan 31, 2023 12:53:44 GMT
I've been looking at places to host sound files. Keff uses SoundCloud so may tell us something about that. I've come across the following: Whyp - www.whyp.it/Highnote - www.highnote.fm/ - currently free and in beta Anything else out there worth noting? |
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Post by keff on Jan 31, 2023 13:53:19 GMT
I have been posting mp4 files to SoundCloud and then onto this forum for only a couple of weeks and haven't found my way around SoundCloud facilities yet. I first became aware of it because a friend archives some of his recording there. To date I've posted 8 tracks taking up 26 minutes and using 14% of my free space. I would like to post more anonymously but it displays my full name although I haven't had the patience to investigate changing it. It lets you play other peoples' recordings rather too eagerly for my liking. In conclusion I would not particularly recommend SoundCloud apart from it is there and it works. I am tempted to look at www.whyp.it |
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Post by keff on Jan 31, 2023 15:00:36 GMT
I have substituted the sound file for 'Fool on the Hill' to one hosted by whyp. I like the whyp play screen and whyp was easy to register with and to download a file. These have to be audio files, i.e mp3 and it complained when I tried to download an mp4. SoundCloud will allow the download of mp4 (useful if the original was in YouTube).
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Post by Zi on Jan 31, 2023 15:05:57 GMT
I uploaded a small mp3 file to Whyp after having made an account. The file was drag and drop and that worked even on my Linux box. Uploaded very quickly, played OK and then deleted OK. You can set privacy levels and it will default to that with every upload. That was a very quick 'go' with it but I was impressed. Nice interface. Nothing garish or look at me! Whyp seems very small. I'm trying to figure out how it is making money - perhaps it isn't yet.
I'll try highnote in a bit. Have been unwell today so not feeling like doing much.
edit - keff you posted while I was typing... Interesting about mp4 - I hadn't tried that!
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Post by keff on Jan 31, 2023 15:08:15 GMT
Sorry to hear your unwell Zi. Hope tomorrow is a better day.
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Post by Zi on Jan 31, 2023 15:18:59 GMT
It'll pass. Just don't feel like playing the clarinet or running about! But thank you!
So, I'm trying to entertain myself with nothing too demanding!
Highnote
This is much slicker than Whyp and has more issues. It is busy being flashy so it took me longer to sign up and get my space. It wasn't clear if it was possible to make my files private so I'd need to look at that. It's very clearly trying to help people gather feedback and the questionnaire you get on sign up (and again later - same one) is clearly trying to identify the kind of person that might be prepared to pay once it gets out of beta. Weirdly, I'd have less to say to the builder of Whyp because it's so much simpler and actually I quite liked it. I can see Highnote has more functionality. It can cope with mp4. I'll give it another go with some other file types and see if it is indeed possible to make them private.
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