Wheels of Steel; Epic demo of rich Web turn table

Wheels of Steel; Epic demo of rich Web turn table(wheelsofsteel.net)

62 points by dalmaer 14 years ago | 12 comments

Scott Schiller of Flickr created SoundManager, and he has an epic new demo of a rich turntable system using modern audio techniques and CSS/JS too.<p>His walk through article is fantastic:<p>http://www.schillmania.com/content/entries/2011/wheels-of-steel/

matthijs 14 years ago |

In depth article from Scott Schiller that explains how he developed it: http://www.schillmania.com/content/entries/2011/wheels-of-st...

endgame 14 years ago |

Well, it's kinda neat, but epic? No.

aashay 14 years ago | |

...why not? There's no Flash. I'd say that's pretty epic.

premchai21 14 years ago | | |

Except for the Flash that's necessary in the background for the more advanced audio modes.

endgame 14 years ago | | |

Because that sort of linguistic inflation is going to leave you at a loss for words when you encounter something that's ACTUALLY epic.

jasonkester 14 years ago |

I gave up after a few minutes of trying unsuccessfully to load a track into the righthand turntable. Was also a bit disappointed that it wouldn't let me manually move the playhead to run the track back & forth. Unless I'm missing something, it's essentially just a media player with a funky interface.

BUT, I voted this up solely for the fact that this turned me on to the new Beastie Boys album, which I wouldn't otherwise have know was out. That's my afternoon ruined in a good way. Observe:

http://soundcloud.com/beastieboys/lee-majors-come-again/

forkqueue 14 years ago |

Pretty cool, but it needs the ability to pitch up/down to be useful.

mdonahoe 14 years ago |

is there a way to scratch the records? thats what i kept trying to do when i saw the turntable.

schill 14 years ago | |

Sorry it isn't more clear - by default, you get "non-scratch mode" until it's determined your GPU (hardware accel in browser) + CPU can handle the extra load. Once you opt in, localstorage remembers that preference until you opt out.

You can force scatch mode via http://wheelsofsteel.net/?scratch=1 - but without hardware accel (hardware + OS + driver support, I recommend Safari 5 or Chrome 12), rendering falls back on CPU use which will skyrocket and that will kill the audio processing bits.

I wrote a small book on the whole process (and performance caveats) on my main site as someone linked below. Numerous pics + videos too. ;)

blutonium 14 years ago | |

Yeah, there's a subtle link just under the turntable before the tracks to load.

tronjavolta 14 years ago |

scott schiller is THAT DUDE

thinkbohemian 14 years ago |

This is epic. Load tracks at the bottom