[[Attachment:1]]Hey,
Our hardworking developers have once again rolled out a slightly smaller but nonetheless thrilling update. We sincerely hope it meets your expectations and addresses some issues you may have encountered.
Thanks guys!
Welcome new website player!
*Improved waveforms
*Media Controls and Information support for mobile devices
*Continuous playback on mobile devices when locked or in background
*Collaborators are now displayed alongside artist
*Improved layout for mobile screens
Website improvements:
*Album and track descriptions now properly display new lines as entered
*Activity feed and news board changed to 1 column to be more digestible and easy to follow
*Moved static assets (images, music etc.) to a CDN for better load speeds
*Improved database and backend performance for load speeds
*Various small visual improvements for mobile and desktop
*Fixed many reported bugs from last update (thanks community!)
Comments (122)
bet
another major W
Just signed up and can't access the studio. You think it could be the update? Sounds like a bunch of good news tbh.
Works fine here. What happens or doesn't happen? And which OS are you using?
Is a CDN a content delivery network?
Common audiotool W
Love the care being put into the mobile website!
mild problem.
The looping is a bit wonky with the new bar, and you cant scroll back in the song at all.
also i miss the visualizer :(
Looks good tho
P.s if you are on a phone you can't use the studio.
I can't tell you how much the board change is appreciated. Cool minor fix with collaborators, that's a sweet touch to make people feel more involved.
oh snap, they are gone! I used the waveform view to judge other people's clipping :(
same 😭
thanks guys, i still cant edit comments on mobile
it jus refreshes my page
BRING BACK THE DANG VISUALIZER
IT WAS THERE THEN GONE AND THERE AGAIN AND GONE AGAIN
I WANNA SEE THE FUNNY THING MOVE THROUGHOUT THE SONG RAAAAAH
YAAAAAY
cope
ill do you one better:
ill roll on grass
i can relate to that rant very well
more patch notes
but why is the audio visualizer gone on the player
it just takes me to the top of the page :\
Looks good on mobile, but the single column sort on the front page and news board doesn't look very good on PC. Also, i feel that the new waveforms are a downgrade as most of my track waveforms are just blocks now.
because they are blocks lol
True, true. However they were less blocky pre-update to the point where i could tell which parts of my tracks were hook sections and verse sections.
Excluding my compression nightmare tracks, i've noticed that other users' tracks also have significantly blockier waveforms after the update.
One more a bit annoying thing to mention:
I'll post an example so it's easier to understand,
https://www.audiotool.com/track/hu2eft1kidux/
Press play... now click on the link in the description.
Whoala, no more music.
Long story short, any link that leads to a different part of the AT website will make the player stop.
Cheers.
whenever someone favorites a track, the notification stretches across my screen
think the search index could be improved.
when searching future garage, neither mine nor the tracks I like appear.
Board news page doesn't look right to us, will fix in next update
Fixed now! Thanks
Thanks, will investigate
Big task for us, but on the list!
Mate you have absolutely no dynamic range in your music, if it wasn't a block before it was a bug 😅
Try opening them in any audio editor like audacity
the bugs for when i try to play a song are kinda persistent ngl
idk if that's just me or not, though
Not a comment about your producing skills, I understand it's a stylistic approach :) I dig them
My track waveforms were still blocks prior to the update, just slightly more detailed (most of the time). Now in uncompressed tracks, waveforms currently seem less detailed post-update (just like my own heavily compressed tracks, but not as severe). Uncompressed waveforms now look smoothed out and flattened compared to how those waveforms looked pre-update.
Oh, an yes, I’ve put my tracks into audacity before. You could build a house with those blocks.
Please provide more details and we'll have a look
Hi ! Still not possible to download a track into the mobile app, neither to edit or remove a comment
My tracks are so repetitive after the update
Should be fixed now. Thanks!
Fixed now, thank you!
Please investigate. Use my tracks for your experiments
thank you guys!!
tysm <3
I can record a video when I can if you'd like
Yes it is 👍🏻. Tks guys
here a screen shot
quickest updates in the west 🤠
I believe this problem still persists specifically when clicking the @ or link to another audiotool account from someone's bio
Yes, it still does persist.
Also " Continuous playback on mobile devices when locked or in the background " still glitches like before. Maybe performs a bit better than previously, but still isn't working smooth.
The new waveforms look so sick
I try to play a song, then it keeps loading forever, and it doesn't go away when i refresh.
Age old problem
good to know
Bring back the audio visualizer pls
thanks!
Yeah no problem moderator!
the audio visualizer has done nothing for people but make it difficult for some users to load playback, and since it's such a minor feature I think it's best that they just removed it rather than try to make it work for everyone
You're right, we found more problems. Will push up fixes in the next update
Fixed. Links in descriptions will no longer cause player to stop. A couple of other player bugs have been resolved as well.
Yeah, the problem is gone now! Amazing!
Can you please work on fixing mobile? After some tracks they just stop playing and you have to close the tab and open it again. I've gotten used to it but I think it should be fixed
Thank you so much, AT team 💜
I'm sure we can all appreciate the amount of bugs and problems that are fixed almost instantly after they are brought to AT teams attention. Thank you guys!
Thank you AT!!💚
This mobile interface looks so clean
hahaha
That's actually crazy.
Major Win!
very shameful for visualizer enjoyers like i
but we visualizer enjoyers can accommodate
gonna miss you visualizer, you truly made my tiny little brain go "OOOGHA" whenever i saw ya move
rip fr bruv ;_;;;;
i KNEW something was different but i couldn't catch it on cause it still looks similar from the previous waveform AAAAAAAA
just make it accessible to pc and just move the stuff over a little
please mods i beg you i wont say penis anymore if you do
If you play a track when viewing your tracks on your profile and then view the track itself and press the pause button while the track is playing, the track will actually restart and play from the beginning instead of pausing. I've only tried this on mobile so this might not be the case on pc
thanks
There are some glitches with the looping function on songs. If you turn it on while a song is playing, it often doesn't work. You have to turn it on and then start a song for it to work properly.
make the studio work on mobile! almost the #1 thing i need rn
boutta be making shi in school
ong 😤
The site isn't working right now. Songs will not load and the player is broken.
The notification drop-down is also not working.
TL:DR for MODS
audiotool is broken rn
pls fix 😿🙏🏽😭
List of things that don't work:
Yeah that sounds like all of them, at least that I've noticed
oh the search bar doesn't work either
AT is broken!!!!!!!!!
It absolutely sucks on mobile rn!
Nope, still not fixed
the devs are probably working on a few other bugs, which chain reacted to the whole site not functioning, it'll probably be fixed soon
Yeah, but I was going to show my guitar teacher a song I had made later today! But now I can’t T^T
Yep, the player has been turned off completelly. 😄
Can second this
Fun!
it seems there are technical struggles on a lot of other sites as well, i wonder if there is a worldwide server restart
Might be, allthough, the game i was just playing, and I was one the online multiplayer part, was working fine
Hmmm I’m about to study cybersecurity in university soon (this fall) and reading this rung a bell… hmmmm…
Moderators on AT:
bro really thinks mods are responsible for fixing the site
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Mods-1960s/
Will you guys plan to do any overhaul to the single chart algo in the future? The current one seems to care only about the likes, that's all it takes to be there. I believe with a way more sophisticated algo single charts would represent some quality content of this site not the trash that is mostly there. Thanks.
Well said
Some new models in the pipe. What else should be included in your opinion?
more like a world wide server breakdown XD
Another thing would be, when you are wiring your devices, if you could double click on a cable it would delete it, and then use the drag-and-drop to route the cable. Hopefully that made sense. Thanks!
Please use the Feature Request for feature requests https://www.audiotool.com/board/feature_requests Thanks
@a-records unfortunately, I'm a dumb mother fucker. I only have primary school diploma, so there is no way I can come up with something valid. I am sure you guys know 100x better what to do.
Anyway, glad to hear something is being worked on with single charts :)
my only concern is that all it takes is pure spam and exploits for most to just land a spot there
as far as "quality content", curation should be a thing highly encouraged
I think a good idea is not to let one genre in single charts more than once otherwise it can all be filled with just trap, or hip hop, or whatever. I think to discover more music single charts need to include as much genre as possible.
Maybe a personalized single chart in the future would be a good thing. Single chart made for me based on my listening history, what I like, and what music I listen to :)
For example single charts this week consist of 6 trap songs... a bit too much.. take the best performing song in trap category and let other genre fill the rest of the chart.
sila makes a great point and I definitely agree. I would say there are tracks that really deserve to be featured when they aren't. I'm not saying we shouldn't celebrate the success of others, but it seems a little unfair to have one genre take the majority, like sila said.
It doesn't sit right for me for the trap genre, which is already incredibly popular, to overwhelm the singles, because it is unfair to the people who work hard in other genres that don't get as much recognition. All forms of art need to be appreciated in one way or another.
It's also irritating because a majority of people who are there are spamming their tracks on other people's walls. They plug their shit everywhere.
if u rlly wanna know there are technically 8 trap songs on the single charts
singles are overflowing with trap rn
i wanna see other ppl and other genres on there fr
On the other hand, we had very very few Trap tracks as featured tracks. Isn't that balancing justice?
since you devs can see this.
how long does it take you to program a copy of pong
ban trap indefinitely
unlike the singles charts, there's a more obvious is standard for featured tracks so i find that debatable
hey man
lmao is the worst plugg beat i have made and it still charted
HOW ABOUT ADDING A PIANO ROLL TO SAMPLES
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agreed, no offense intended
real
@borozo thats interesting
that would be a good idea, to have one of each genre max, but what would we do if 2-3 meme songs(disguised as reggae or birdcore) make the singles, simply because the other categories have already been filled. wouldn't we be in the same position as before?
yeah
I would say there is no clear solution and that it will take work to find a good solution. I think what sila proposed is a good baseline that can be expanded/changed in some way.
I also agree with @aya-chan that there is a distinction between Singles and Featured. If I'm not wrong, Featured tracks are hand-picked to be featured, while Singles is chosen by an algorithm (again I could be totally wrong).
How about you gather your ideas and post them as a joint feature request?