Hi there,

This site has a focus on music. Not being able to share audio clips makes no sense. Of course you can use a third party tool to share audio clips but I think the barrier is too big.

Here’s what I want to do: I want to create a micro application that allows people to upload audio or video clips to be able to embed them into their posts. The design goals are:

  • low barrier of entry
  • good viewing experience
  • useful on mobile

Now I can easily do the technical stuff (upload and store files, embedding, deployment) but I’ve always had a hard time with graphical design for small apps with very few features.

Would any of you have the skills and time to contribute a design?

  • BKLronin@waveform.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I could imagine something with flask- html - css. Ive at least seen a drag and drop component in flask. Iḿ experimenting a lot with webservices lately like my 4-tracks beat site. Not sure if Iḿ up to anyones standrads but I could probably write a working and acceptable looking UI for that.

    Problem is that Iḿ currently focused on stuff I need to get down in this month. So maybe in the long run I could help with that.

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This post came up when I searched the lemmyverse for “imgur but for audio”. I’m loving the idea.

    I’ve been looking for a way to hot link audio into my Lemmy comments using the ![]() markup but the problem is either Lemmy doesn’t render audio urls as audio elements or the website I’m linking disables hotlinking. I can’t tell.

    If you don’t mind the default Lemmy ui look then you can easily copy them over, because it uses Bootstrap 5. I’ve also seen elsewhere on the lemmyverse instances who ask their users to use an external affiliated file host that runs a linx-server instance. A simple off the shelf server that you can spin up in a docker.

    • ChappIO@waveform.socialOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hm that’s actually not a bad idea. Initially I wanted to make it unauthenticated and just make a website where you can drop files.

      The downside would be that only local users could upload audio and video as they would have to use waveform.social to do that.