Comments on: More Cowbell.dj

More Cowbell.dj

brianwhitman — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:43:29 -0800

Upload a song, experience the fever. Adds a synchronized cowbell and Walken track to any song. Part of The Echo Nest's launch of its developer site where anyone can access our audio analysis, search capabilites or data feeds (tags / reviews / posts for any artist, all automatically.) The Python code of the cowbell renderer is also now available as an example in the open-source Echo Nest Remix API. Examples: Steely Dan, Raymond Scott

(NB: if you have a problem uploading a track, just try again. We're still working through some file encoding issues on the web app. It should work most of the time)

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:02:02 -0800

Yeah, it just crapped out on me twice with a "we don't know about that file" error. Any particular good or bad factors in getting success? Filesize limitations?

By: brianwhitman

brianwhitman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:57:34 -0800

Ack, sorry, site went down 2 hours ago. Just got up, we'll fix it in a tiny bit.

By: brianwhitman

brianwhitman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:23:06 -0800

OK, unstuck the queue and booted up a few more machines. Internet: bring it on, quietly. You may have to wait a few minutes until yours is ready.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:51:54 -0800

Yay for unsticking. Do you have a plan for making the archives browsable? At the moment, if it didn't happen in the last ten minutes, it didn't happen.

By: brianwhitman

brianwhitman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:10:38 -0800

we're trying to encourage the PITYB (post-it-to-your-blog) component of it instead of making that site be the repository... if you like a cowbell, there's a button there that adds it to various places. but I agree, i love just refreshing the recent page all day...

By: brianwhitman

brianwhitman — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:27:09 -0800

just for you cortex, because I like the cut of your jib, i made the recent 20 not 10

# THIS ONE IS FOR CORTEX
last20 = Track.objects.filter(status='Y').order_by('-rendered')[:20]

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:30:53 -0800

Heh. Thanks, it's a jib I've put many hard hours into tailoring.

By: notashroom

notashroom — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:51:41 -0800

Great project! Mike Elgan linked you up yesterday on his blog The Raw Feed.

By: needs more cowbell

needs more cowbell — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:13:02 -0800

I had to vote for this, naturally.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:17:12 -0800

Huh. This just made Entertainment Weekly's Must List. Nice work!