A sample of the old interaction can be seen below.įast-forward to the new single page app version of Audiomack, you can see beyond the new facelift below that this proves to not be a problem anymore. If you wanted to look around the site, you’d have to open a new tab or window to browse while the music played in a separate context. This was in my opinion, one of the biggest issues with the site before. Since the page loads were completely fresh with every click of a link on the site, your music would stop. If you were listening to music on the site, you did not want to try and browse. Since most of the mobile site features have a lot of parity with the desktop, I’ll be showcasing the improvements via desktop screenshots since that’s easier. The team wanted this to be a more API centric project. It is an extensible application that works with Chrome (Canary, Yandex, Chromium) and Safari, and can control any tab with an applicable media player. The Node backend doesn’t do much beyond serving requests. BeardedSpice is a menubar application for Mac OSX that allows you to control web based media players and some native apps with the media keys found on Mac keyboards. Starting with the mobile site, I converted the legacy site which was running on an old version of Zend Framework to a more modern stack on top of Node, React, & Webpack. 3īeardedSpice was my first interaction with building for Audiomack up until about a year ago where I got the opportunity to rebuild Audiomack’s web experience from the ground up. I quickly added Audiomack support and I was on my way. 2 After searching around I came across BeardedSpice which lets you control a variety of different sites with your media keys. Since Audiomack doesn’t have a desktop app like Spotify or iTunes, there had to have been another way. I should mention this was never an issue with Audiomack as much as it is an issue with how websites and browsers work in general. Why break from working on something just to switch back to the browser, find the Audiomack tab and sift through songs and albums. Therefore I want to use my media keys to control the music on the site. Personally I’d consider myself a power user when it comes to a lot of things computer related. There were always some issues that the world of Audiomack users and myself had when using the site. It wasn’t always sunshine and rainbows however. In the main iTunes window, click the Info tab. Sometimes iTunes not recognizing iPhone may be caused by driver software meaning that. I’ve been putting people on for years thanks to Audiomack. This does not happen on any other macOS version, only exclusively Big Sur. In the Finder, under the General tab, click Manage Backups to. 1 Who doesn’t like finding out about great artists before they hit the mainstream, just so you can brag like “I knew such and such before they were mainstream.” Shout out Ramriddlz. The site was always pure gold when it came to finding new music in the electronic or hip-hop space. I’ve been using Audiomack for a few years now and have found some great songs by not-so-well-known artists as well as the more popular. Audiomack is the place for artists to effortlessly share their music and for fans to discover and download free songs and albums.
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