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That being said, your \"demos\" on the home page are incredibly…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"4793661","jrmattox1","Awesome. I am your target. I often troll YouTube for \"[song name] + acoustic cover\" then find myself navigating the spammy chord\u002Ftab sites for the music. Bringing it together is…",{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Scratching own itch; maker is learning guitar","commenter",[69,73],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"4790827","sharkweek","This is beautifully designed, huge improvement to the current tabs market available for guitarists. Congrats on a great product! edit: I am curious about one thing -- how do you…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"4792079","bionicbrian","So awesome. Perfect example of \"scratch your own itch\" done really well Like others said, perhaps I should take my guitar out of its case and get my caluses back.",[78,83,90],{"value":79,"source":67,"evidence":80},"HTML5",[81],{"id":82},"post",{"value":84,"source":67,"evidence":85},"YouTube JavaScript player API",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"4792953","bburky","Was just playing around with the YouTube JavaScript API myself, it's really not that complicated. You can do some pretty cool things with it. Looks like you're using the HTML5…",{"value":91,"source":67,"evidence":92},"Django",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"4791136","igorgue","This is really cool, when I was starting with web development you made Django. Now I'm learning guitar and you start Soundslide, thanks a lot Adrian, good luck!",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"4791185","cocoflunchy","So that is why Django is called Django! 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I love the…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"4792376","skippyta","Adrian: as you are one of the only people on YouTube I've ever subscribed to, I felt the need to say that this is fantastic not only for the features of the software itself, but…",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"4790961","jack-r-abbit","I don't know anything about guitars or tabs... but as a developer I think this site is beautiful!",{"value":122,"source":67,"evidence":123},"Solves a real problem better than printed or spammy tab sites",[124,128,132],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4790998","saturdayplace","This is a solution to a problem I didn't even know I had until I played with it. Well done!",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"4791155","mborromeo","This is very cool. I usually don't see so much innovation in this market, but this is a very big step forward if compared to the printed tabs spread in my house. Congrats and…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},[134,153,168],{"value":135,"source":67,"evidence":136},"Scrolling tab numbers move too fast to read",[137,141,145,149],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"4791528","wavesounds","Dude this rules awesome job! Only issue for me is that even in 1\u002F2 speed its moving to fast for my eyes to focus on the numbers. So what I need is to have the lines separated…",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"4792170","stickdick","Great idea but, even on half speed on the Super Mario example, the thing is so jerky that the numbers on the tabs just blend together, I can't read a single one of them. MacBook…",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"4792699","tadruj","Awesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast,…",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"4790778","ryanlbrown","This is great. I would suggest one thing: try to make the scroll speed independent of screen size. I can't read the notes with a fully maximized window. Edit: found the zoom, but…",{"value":154,"source":67,"evidence":155},"Playback fails with JS errors for some users",[156,160,164],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"4792889","wazoox","Nothing happens for me (only the youtube video plays). Firefox 16.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8). JS Error: [08:42:30,567] TypeError: this.yt_player.playVideo is not a function @…",{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"4792460","rorrr","I press the round play button, and nothing happens. Chrome 23, Win7 here. Here's the JS error: ``` Uncaught TypeError: Object #\u003CV> has no method 'playVideo'…",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"4791138","Avalaxy","Hmm, somehow it doesn't work for me. When I hit the Play button, nothing happens. What's up with that? 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Would love to see tab support for 4 and 5 stringed instruments as well (5 st banjo, tenor banjo, mandolin etc)!",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},{"value":207,"source":67,"evidence":208},"Slower playback speeds and speed slider",[209,213],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"4791341","mengine","This is awesome. Any plans to add a speed slider vs 50%\u002FFull? It would be super helpful to slow down to 25% on some songs.",{"id":214,"by":215,"text":216},"4791400","gisenberg","Great work! Some things I'd like to see: ``` - Ability to loop sections of a song. - An easy way to restart the current song from beginning. - And, because I'm not great...…",{"value":218,"source":67,"evidence":219},"Paged scrolling by default and bigger tab numbers",[220,224],{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"4792437","mcmire","Wow, that is cool for sure. One comment: set the default scrolling behavior to \"paged\". I found that real-time movement was too blurry. 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I coded this exact same concept about 4 years ago (livetabber.com... your name is better). I was really hoping somebody would do it for real. Do you plan on adding…",[249,256,263,270,274],{"value":250,"source":67,"evidence":251},"Capo",[252],{"id":253,"by":254,"text":255},"4791230","GuiA","A great piece of software in the same space as SoundSlice is Capo: http:\u002F\u002Fsupermegaultragroovy.com\u002Fproducts\u002FCapo\u002F",{"value":257,"source":67,"evidence":258},"Rocksmith",[259],{"id":260,"by":261,"text":262},"4791799","biscarch","It's cool, but it's got some usability issues for \"playing along\" unless you already know the chords, etc. The 1\u002F2 time was also pretty choppy for me. Rocksmith [1], which can be…",{"value":264,"source":67,"evidence":265},"UltimateGuitar",[266],{"id":267,"by":268,"text":269},"4790865","tchock23","Wow - this is awesome. Well done! Any plans to add lyrics to the annotations? It would be cool to be able to follow other contributors as well because some people are great at…",{"value":271,"source":67,"evidence":272},"Guitar Pro",[273],{"id":245,"by":246,"text":247},{"value":275,"source":67,"evidence":276},"VexTab",[277],{"id":278,"by":279,"text":280},"4795496","owyn","This is very cool! Have you seen vextab? http:\u002F\u002Fvexflow.com\u002Fvextab\u002F It's a javascript library for displaying tablature and musical notation. It uses its own text format for…",{"comments":41,"answered":50,"key":282},[283,286,289],{"id":284,"text":285},"4790796","Thanks! Glad you found the scroll type preferences. For more, check out the tutorial (annotated on Soundslice, naturally): http:\u002F\u002Fwww.soundslice.com\u002Fyt\u002F8zgsQ9qgA7s\u002F (Edit) You…",{"id":287,"text":288},"4792369","Glad I could help! :-D",{"id":290,"text":291},"4791033","Thanks! 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