You may have noticed a new little button on many pages in Odeo:
What does "play next" mean? It means play the next audio, of course—"next" meaning, at this point, a more-or-less random selection from our database of hundreds of thousands of recordings. And they play automatically when the page loads.
I think it's a fun way to explore the site. You'll come across some duds, but once in a while find something neat and surprising you would have never selected deliberately.
Here's another trick: Place this link in your browser links bar, and you don't even have to visit Odeo first to start playing:
PlayNext. Click it any time you'd like some sound accompanying you.
More to come.
Posted by Ev. at 4/26/2006
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Our awesome support person, Crystal, wrote this as a response to a user. I had to share it more widely.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while you pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious upload of your files galore,
While you nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of Odeo gently rapping, rapping at your 'puter door.
" 'Tis upload failure," you muttered, "tapping at my 'puter door;
It's Odeo, nothing more."
Deep into the 'puter peering, long you sat there, wondering, fearing
Doubting, loading files no mortals ever dared to load before;
And your patience was unspoken, the spinning star ball gave no token,
And the sign that it was broken was the bright pink ball,
upload?, This you whispered, and an echo murmured back the word,
"Upload!" Merely this, and nothing more.
Presently your soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," wrote you, "or madam, truly your assistance I implore;
But the fact is, I was loading, mp3s I was uploading,
And I felt a strange foreboding, encoding files at 'puter door,
That I would not ever see them." Here you emailed to support;---
"This is a bug," nothing more.
Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
Why the file, whose upload failure burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, while uneasily reclining
On my 'puter's keyboard lining that the email gloated o'er,
On whose metal keyboard lining with the email gloating o'er
I shall research, ah, evermore!
Our QA guy, sitting only one chair over, he spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
"Upload's failing" then he uttered; "13 megabytes" he stuttered;
Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other files have failed before;
On the morrow he will fix it, as Rabble has done before."
Then The Dom said, "Nevermore."
The support rep, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
with her 'puter's keyboard lining that she's grimly working o'er;
And her eyes have all the seeming of a support rep who is dreaming,
Of successful upload dreaming, 50 megabytes and more;
And her soul from out that daydream snaps, emailing like before,
Upload fixing ---evermore!
Posted by Ev. at 4/14/2006
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RayReadyRay wrote some code for you to put audio comments in your MySpace:
1. Get your MySpace ID via your profile URL (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=
132715)
2. Put this code in your profile, replacing the MySpace ID with yours:
<embed allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_recorder_myspacecomments.swf?ver=0.9" quality="high" bgcolor="ffffff" width="217" height="141" name="audio_recorder_mini" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="never" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
flashvars="myspace_id=
132715"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
3. See
his,
Crystal's, and
my example.
Also - check the new
transparent player!
Posted by Dom at 4/06/2006
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