This is awesome! Thanks Raf!

This is very awesome Raf...thank you...thank you...thank you...

Very Cool Raf! The "markers" & "comments" feature will come in very handy! ;o)

how about psychedelic visualizer options?

woo hoo!!!!
Can't wait....thank you sooo much Raf!!

I think this is brilliant! Nice work.

Looking good! I am filled with antici...

I will wait for Ben to comment. I will base my reaction on his.

(secretly, I think its awesome)

I can finally point out where Brannon slurps his coffee in the middle of the song!

Hmmm ... drop the player into the comments of an idea track and point to a spot and say "what do you think about noseflute right HERE?".... hmmmmm

Ha ha...I think Brannon's let out a bit of pee.....I secretly don't want to believe its actaully happening!..well i think it could be the biggest thing since I don't know when...assuming it goes to plan...great job. it seems being a PITA pays off sometimes..well....part of a combined pain in a massive arse. :)

Raf, thanks for this great upgrade! What's the word I'm looking for?...awesome, marvelous, spectacular, splendid? Nah. One word does not do it justice. I'm just gonna call it Komtastic-Pozalicious-Sangertation-Rafamundo!...and fantastic.

A massive improvement and it'll be another great feature of the site.

If it did have the 'marker' & 'comments' functions it would be up with the BEST type of imbedded player out there.

I do have some idea of how much extra work that would be and think your programming is amazing, but it would save you going back to it in 1yr - 18months when every other competitor site has that level of functionality.

Wow !!! THIS LOOKS SUPER DUPER MEGA HYPER GOOD !!!
This thing with the comments on specific parts of the time line is really really cool and very usefull !

hoooooray!
it makes me wanna post a track just to play with it!
Tooltip with the exact time on the waveform is already a great improvement. Can't wait for the marker&comments :)

I can smell the new packaging:)

I like this quite a bit - this will really enhance commenting on tracks as projects progress.

Some initial feedback:

I like the compressed view with the "more" link to expand - I love anything that saves me from having to scroll.

One thing I noticed was that I had to hit play before I would see the track playback time and could click on the track to jump to a point in the song. I could hit play, then pause, and anytime after that initial play, see the playback time and jump around, but not before an initial play. Even after hitting stop, this worked. It might be nice to make that available before having to play, esp when you have comments and people want to jump right to a point in the tune.

Personally, I prefer dropdown option lists to buttons in a GUI as it makes it less cluttered, so the replacement of the "Track" dropdown with buttons isn't my favorite, but that's just my opinion. :)

For the futures list, it would also be a nice feature to be able to click/drag the mouse over the track like you can when you go into solo mode on a track in logic, say - sorta like moving the tape across the playback head (oh my, well, that dates me...) so you can find a specific spot easily. I suppose that's a lot more work than is necessary, but I tried it and figured I'd mention it.

Good points, Bill...although I glazed over after the word "quite."

j/k

no prob, r2 - we know all drummers suffer adhd...

If there was a way we could jump to a certain point in Bill's comment without having to read, that would be a nice feature:)

"hey Bill, what time is it?"

Bill: "Well, the word clock (from the Latin word clocca, "bell"), which gradually supersedes "horologe", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.... blah, blah, blah....."

hahaha! That's what friends are for... >:D

sadly, that's a fair depiction of me...although when talking to Steve, it more often was along the lines of "this is a can of beer - you don't need a bottle opener, and here's why." :D

Bill taught me well...... me like cans

I will wait for Brannon to comment. I will base my reaction on his now that Ben has commented.

(secretly, I think MDK Spotlight is awesome and if MDK likes the new player, i will like it too!)

@RollingThunder, who said
"...One thing I noticed was that I had to hit play before I would see the track playback time and could click on the track to jump to a point in the song..."

There's a reason for that. It's mainly a technical issue with the fact that the player does not know the audio length (time) until it has loaded it. And I don't attempt to pre-load the audio when the page is first loaded, because that would potentially chew up bandwidth (which means $$$). In fact, with MP3s, the player does not know the exact length (time) of the track until it's 100% loaded (although it does a good job of estimating it once the buffering has started).

One way around this is for the system to determine the actual audio length once, and then storing that value. I can potentially do this when the track is first loaded. I will look into this as a solution.

Ah - yep: I see that the loading bar status doesn't progress on page load - only on hitting play. Makes sense - and yeah, auto downloading for the page load isn't sensible.

This is damn good. Period.

I think if it could autotune me, snap me to a humanized grid and make a cappuchino, it will be the pinnacle of the Kollaboration Evolution. Don't implement those please :)

Lonnie is serious about the nose flute, I bet many of you thought it was a joke.

this is really good.

UPDATE: You will notice that all new tracks uploaded after today will have a new waveform. Instead of green, they will now be blue. There's a method to my madness... we are working on a site facelift (dare I say, "re-design").

Here's an Example

Great stuff! I am looking forward to the finished product.

I'm confused. When did Ben request a red-design? Did I miss something?

A red E-sign. He mentioned it to Raf in the line for mocha-latte-frappuchetti-with-a-grapefruit-twist at Starbucks.

good BUT ... nothing on my Iphone 3GS... normal ?

Amazing Raf. I can't wait till we can tag the timeline. This is a huge improvement to KOMPOZ. GREAT JOB!!!!!

It's live! Markers and in-line comments not there yet, but in the works.

and its just awesome. I really like the big kompoz logo behind the waveform. . .says it loud and proud.

and I'll be dang if you didn't sneak in new staff picks on the front page. The hits just keep comin'

I like a lot. Not knowing anything about how hard this kind of thing is to do, is there any chance of a repeat button??

I see you can click the time line to where you want it to start also, very nice touch.

Is it just me or did anyone else think the blue waveform looked cool as hell?

I wonder that top of the page player will get a facelift. This update keeps Kompoz feeling fresh I love it.

New uploads are still blue,some remained green and others are gray. Is this a code or just my subjective reality?

Great improvement Raf. Bravo!

@Brannon - New uploads should all be blue. Uploads before yesterday will remain green. There should not be any grey, expect for the ones lost during the hard drive fail (they will be recovered soon).

@Matt - top-of-the-page player will be replaced eventually.

@leesharp - Repeat button is very do-able.

Thanks everyone!

That is brilliant Raf thankyou. I am just too lazy to open another player. Atleast then I can remain sitting on my garden bench in the sun listening to the same track to get more and more ideas / pick out the faults to improve on.

Most of my tracks are grey with the big kompoz logo behind the wave form. especially from older projects.

All I know is I clicked on a part I wanted to fast forward to and it went there. Just like my DAW does so I'm happy. Thanks

here's what my tracks uploaded before the crash look like.
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@Brannon -- Yep, all the old waveforms pre-crash are missing, so it shows the generic kompoz logo. We are still working with the data recovery firm, and hope to get all those old waveforms back. If not, then we'll regenerate them (something that we're trying to avoid!)

ah, I'm slow to catch on sometimes. The gray looks nice to me, so I thought it was a deliberate and permanent change.

I do wish the new player showed up in safari on the iPhone. I haven't checked the iPad yet.