Music Alert! - Read me!

[Melooon]

HELLO! THIS IS AN ALERT!! (A music alert!)

As like me... (that's a weird way to type..) You probably are using YouTube to share songs on the forum! Thats fine YouTube is great for that! BUT Someday it wont be!

YouTube videos are often deleted, delisted or lost - and someday YouTube itself will go offline FORVER! When that happens, the songs you post here will make no sense at all and be lost too!

But there is a better way! When you post a YouTube song, please also include its name and artist (aka the video title) with your video!!

If you do that you song wont be lost, even if the video is!

Like thisssss: (You can use center on the title to make it look nice)

Hampton the Hampster - The Hampsterdance Song

(Go and do that now!)
THAT IS ALL, THANKS![/size]

          

[myleszey]

I'm going to do my best to follow this from now on! Can personally recall some sad moments when a song I was looking for suddenly disappeared off Youtube and I couldn't find what it was to get at it again. Even so, when I need to share a song, sending a Youtube link has been the best option I've found to get someone to actually click on it, since it's one of the few options that reliably embeds into a multitude of platforms (including this forum!).

What other options do we have for music sharing here? Soundcloud embeds don't let you pause and I'm not sure if there are volume controls, Spotify... I haven't tried, but I think it complains if you don't have a premium account, and Bandcamp doesn't embed at all and has no volume control. We might as well be sending direct links to .mp3 files (though that's a possible security issue, I don't know if they embed into the page here, and some browsers just like to download audio files rather than giving a preview).

[cyberfun1 (dizz)]

Can i send the audio file of a song? Thats probably the best way to increase it's longevity

[Melooon]

Direct file links are definitely supported; here is a full list of supported sites (most untested)

Direct File Embeds: AVI, Ogg, WMV, MOV, Ogm, Webm, MP3, MP4, Ogv, WMA, PDF

Embed Sites:
YouTube
Vimeo
Twitch
DailyMotion
Instagram
Pastebin
NyTimes
PBS
SoundCloud
Ted Talks

I'd try and add Bandcamp, but I think they embedd URLs are too complex for the forum to decode. Adding new sites can be very hit or miss (Iv never gotten it working), these are what came with the forum software!

[Memory]

Direct file links are definitely supported; here is a full list of supported sites (most untested)

Direct File Embeds: AVI, Ogg, WMV, MOV, Ogm, Webm, MP3, MP4, Ogv, WMA, PDF

Embed Sites:
YouTube
Vimeo
Twitch
DailyMotion
Instagram
Pastebin
NyTimes
PBS
SoundCloud
Ted Talks

I'd try and add Bandcamp, but I think they embedd URLs are too complex for the forum to decode. Adding new sites can be very hit or miss (Iv never gotten it working), these are what came with the forum software!

I think diffy meant the actual audio file being uploaded to the forum.

[Melooon]

think diffy meant the actual audio file being uploaded to the forum

You can totally try, but since forum uploads are limited to 600kb it's not the best way to share music

[GraphiteCore]

oh, definitely something to keep in mind yeah! (⊙_⊙)
i should go back and edit some embeds.
i honestly dont know: can bandcamp be used to share songs and music? ive only ever used it a handful of times, i think they also have embeds... (・・ ) ?

[cyberfun1 (dizz)]

You can totally try, but since forum uploads are limited to 600kb it's not the best way to share music

i can host them on my website :3

[Lucera]

i can host them on my website :3

Or the images could be hosted on something like catbox.moe or pomf.se , and linked here, right? I assume that would work too!

[Memory]

yeah! been wanting to make a little something regarding music and videos on YouTube (also Flash and etc) too.

it's historically been proven that things don't last forever online.
Flipnote Hatena is gone, and supposedly over two thirds of flipnotes were lost despite the panic rush to archive them, heaps of Flash videos are lost (even though there's a massive archival effort, it's still easily possible for many to have been lost to time), heaps of things on Nico Nico Douga and various others are gone, etc.

only ends up usually being well-known things - which is why say World is Mine has stuck around, but a more obscure Vocaloid track would've been forgotten like it never existed.

i've always wanted to know when will YouTube finally shut down? i mean, social media is bleeding users at this point and a good chunk are just AI bots now, so what?
especially with Flash and Flipnote gone, YouTube's being filled with mostly corporate things, at least to me right? well it's more a pattern especially within the mainstream rather than the entirety of it.
that being said though...

indie/non-mainstream things are the most vulnerable to being wiped from the internet.
i've already said this with Flash videos and Flipnote, but YouTube too.

heaps of stupid, funny, whatever videos on YouTube are being lost, while most mainstream videos are very polished and mainstream.
mainstream things often have a massive audience that backs it up, and massive archival efforts are put in place - and sometimes the companies themselves may exploit their own older things for "nostalgia."

a lot of UTAU voicebanks are probably lost, while ones like Kasane Teto are obviously still in existence, is Ritsu or Yokune Ruko or Momone Momo still in existence? maybe somewhere, but what about all the hundreds of others?
etc. those aren't videos or music necessarily, they're voicebanks for UTAU, but still. they're all indie, while VOCALOID was corporate, but despite VOCALOID being more corporate, some voicebanks are almost lost (like SeeU)

please archive things now!
things aren't gonna last forever, and as Melooon said, YouTube isn't forever and will someday be discontinued.

i made this on a single cup of coffee and an Animal Crossing run so bear with me if this is pretty bad