[HN Gopher] Amiga Music Preservation - biggest, most comprehensi...
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       Amiga Music Preservation - biggest, most comprehensive Amiga music
       database
        
       Author : codetrotter
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-08-14 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.dascene.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dascene.net)
        
       | melbourne_mat wrote:
       | As someone who was involved in the Amiga scene I know how all
       | this stuff works. Without that knowledge the site is very hard to
       | use. It wouldn't be difficult to make an MP3 version of this site
       | with an embedded player but I think the hosting costs might be
       | difficult to pay for.
        
         | sitkack wrote:
         | There are inbrowser tracker file players, esp with Wasm
         | rendering could be done client side. That said, with super low
         | bitrate codecs from Xiph it might be much much simpler to
         | encode once and ship the compressed song. Sending the tracker
         | files means that it can be much easier to visualize and slow
         | down playback.
        
         | codetrotter wrote:
         | For anyone that just wants to listen to the music in the
         | collection I recommend installing the iOS app 4champ
         | 
         | https://4champ.net/
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         | https://apps.apple.com/app/4champ/id578311010
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         | And going to radio mode and toggling it to Radio ON.
         | 
         | This immediately starts streaming music from Amiga Music
         | Preservation and playing it.
         | 
         | The iOS app also runs on macOS, although its UI is not ideal
         | for use on a computer as it is more geared towards touch
         | screens. I mainly use it on my iPhone for this reason, much
         | more than I use it on my MacBook Pro M1.
         | 
         | One final note about the music player 4champ: It's generally a
         | good player and I listen a lot using it, but it sorely lacks a
         | "previous song" function in Radio mode. So if it plays a good
         | tune and you don't favorite the tune while is playing, or make
         | note of the name of it and its artist, you will have
         | effectively no way of finding that song again. But other than
         | this it's a solid player.
        
       | codetrotter wrote:
       | Seems that a HN filter intended for Google AMP is triggered by
       | the URL and changes it. But amp in this URL has nothing to do
       | with Google AMP.
       | 
       | The url is supposed to be http://amp.dascene.net/home.php
       | 
       | @dang, can you override the change of the url so it's correct?
        
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