stuartmemo's comments

On: 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

[stuartmemo]

Funnily enough, I'm trying to do this, and just posted in "What are you Working On?" Not sure I'll have much luck if Apple couldn't make it happen though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268285

[pogue → stuartmemo]

Looks interesting, how do you get it to sync what I'm listening to with it? I use Pandora & YT Music as my only music services.

[stuartmemo → pogue]

Thanks! Good shout, will definitely add support for YouTube. Pandora, however, is sadly blocked in the UK.

On: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

[stuartmemo]

Raygum, a way to track and share your favourite music _outside_ of the big streamers: https://raygum.com

[dirkk0 → stuartmemo]

thanks for pointing this out, exactly what I was looking for.

On: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

[stuartmemo]

It's probably Jira. https://medium.com/question-park/all-aboard-the-ai-train-b03...

On: The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music

[stuartmemo]

I made a little online version if anyone's interested - https://sodaphonic.com/instruments/mellotron

[duderific → stuartmemo]

Super cool, love it!

On: ffmpeg.wasm – a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg

[stuartmemo]

I used this to make an in-browser audio converter. Performance is pretty good, but limited to a single thread compared to the cli version.

https://sodaphonic.com/convert

[graderjs → stuartmemo]

Surely the implementation could get around this using Workers?

On: If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013)

[stuartmemo]

Sounds like he got to do most of those things in Thimbleweed Park - https://thimbleweedpark.com/

On: Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser

[stuartmemo]

Thanks! Yes, definitely. On the list.

On: Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser

[stuartmemo]

Thanks for letting me know. Will look into it!

On: Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser

[stuartmemo]

If you're using Chrome or Firefox, you can try it out by just recording something. Might not be clear enough, so thanks for the feedback!

On: Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser

[stuartmemo]

I'm not sure I understand, what copyright issues can you envision?

[Zikes → stuartmemo]

The MP3 codec is patented in the US, due to expire at the end of next year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and...

[6stringmerc → stuartmemo]

Uploading a copyrighted work, then editing it, and saving it into a new file is a clear case of making a derivative version of a protected work. There's no issue if it's Creative Commons allowed or Public Domain, that's just fine and I don't intend to say otherwise. It's when it comes to the nature of the source and the editing and saving that is, to me, just troublesome from a legal / academic standpoint.