04-03-2011, 10:03 AM
This topic is about four months old, but it's still high up on the first page, and I was going to comment on something similar.
Audio preview is actually very easy, however, requires that the sounds aren't zipped. Maybe you could do something similar to the sprite icons on tSR, where you have a 5- or 10- second OGG/WAV file that would be previewed through the browser (this way, you don't actually preview the entire thing, but you have a tiny idea - this way, it won't use up much bandwidth). HTML 5 supports <audio>, and all of the major browsers except IE support this with Ogg Vorbis. There are also several Java/Flash players that can play Ogg for the people that use IE - I'd recommend this against WAVE, considering how it's much smaller, and you don't need high-quality audio for previews anyway.
Not like we need to do anything like this immediately, but I think that it would be a pretty neat idea in the long run.
Audio preview is actually very easy, however, requires that the sounds aren't zipped. Maybe you could do something similar to the sprite icons on tSR, where you have a 5- or 10- second OGG/WAV file that would be previewed through the browser (this way, you don't actually preview the entire thing, but you have a tiny idea - this way, it won't use up much bandwidth). HTML 5 supports <audio>, and all of the major browsers except IE support this with Ogg Vorbis. There are also several Java/Flash players that can play Ogg for the people that use IE - I'd recommend this against WAVE, considering how it's much smaller, and you don't need high-quality audio for previews anyway.
Not like we need to do anything like this immediately, but I think that it would be a pretty neat idea in the long run.