k10k Features Flash MX Turntable. App updated.
Thanks to the crew over at k10k, our recently launched Flash MX Turntable is now a featured issue at the popular design community site. The Flash app, which admittedly soaks up a chunk of server space and bandwidth, will now and forever more be served from their Media Temple backbone. I'm pretty excited about the deal, for the piece will undoubtedly be seen, used, and hopefully enjoyed by people who've never seen the work of Dominey Design before. On top of that is the reassurance that my own site won't get slash-dotted from the weight.
Thanks to the feedback of readers here, I was able to implement one important request - the ability to put a record back in its sleeve if the user changes their mind and wants to continue listening to the selected track. I also added a new option to make the app even more 56k modem friendly - a toggle to load lower fidelity versions of the same music that are half the file size and download wait time.
I also spent a couple of hours experimenting with ways to grab and drag the record needle, but due to the fact that the needle turns in a constrained radius, as opposed to a straight horizontal or vertical line, the "action" was unpredictable and admittedly rather cruddy. In a way, the extra interaction detracted from the overall work. I'll leave that for the next Flash update.
Comments
That's just about the coolest thing I've ever seen! Flash is putty in your hands Mr.T.
Posted by: Mel at October 14, 2002 11:09 AM
Awesome. Todd, your flash skills simply blow me away. What books do you read?
Posted by: Mike at October 15, 2002 2:56 AM
Todd-awesome! Of course, the first thing I tried to do was grab the record on the turntable and try to scratch it...sigh. That would have been too cool (and pretty much impossible to do in flash as far as I know, although you could fake it).
One thing: I keep seeing this trend, but it's driving me crazy: the pixel fonts are making me blind! At least leave the mouse menu accessible so I can zoom in, or provide a 2x view of the whole thing. I would think that you and other designers would appreciate this with our big monitors and high-res video cards (mine's at a crisp 1600x1200).
=) Love it, keep it up!
Posted by: Allan White at October 17, 2002 3:19 PM
pixel fonts drive me crazy too... BUT the turntable MUST be the coolest thing ever since sliced - well, since sliced anything, really. Like, I like. Totally.
Posted by: RB at October 30, 2002 10:44 PM
