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Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman at the weigh-ins for UFC 117, sponsored by Flavors.me. Unfortunately, The Spaniard lost in the second round by TKO. Look at that those abs though! Next time.
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Soundcloud - We Move Music 1 month ago
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Soundcloud. Based in Berlin, the company makes it easy for artists to share their digital music online. Besides being incredibly passionate about music, they are serious audio engineers. Soundcloud is ideal for musicians, record labels and other industry professionals.
Distributing music online can be a real hassle. File sizes are often large, FTP is too technical and no artist wants their hard work covered in remnant ads on a fly-by-night file hosting site.
Soundcloud gives musicians a private, collaborative web presence and social network for their music. Each track has its own dedicated page with statistics, comments, a clean URL and can be embedded using Soundcloud’s slick audio player. There are no file size limits and Soundcloud sorts out the mess of format conversion for AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, OGG, MP3 and AAC files.
For a real world application of Soundcloud, we need to look no further than Flavors’ very own designer, Jack Zerby. A lifelong musician with three albums and two EPs under his belt, Jack recorded a theme song called “From Down Here” for a new sitcom pilot. After uploading the master to SoundCloud and sharing it privately with the producers for feedback, the song was chosen as the TV shows introduction music!
Flavors supports full audio playback of Soundcloud tracks, sets and favorites. If you create music or work with those who do, sign up for a Soundcloud account and connect it to Flavors.
And for inspiration, check out these existing Flavors + Soundcloud combos:
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Color transparency for the About and Content sections coming very soon, courtesy of Sean. It’s some next level work.
1 month ago
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Rob’s Fresh New Profile
1 month ago
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The New Directory! 1 month ago
About a month ago, the Flavors Directory, which Jack had originally jury rigged by hand, completely stopped working…
Way back last November, Demetre Arges, one of our first beta users, declared Flavors “the new WhitePages”; it’s a characterization that has always resonated internally. The difference is, Flavors-powered sites introduce an incredibly rich visual element that is missing offline and elsewhere, but core to the modern web experience.
So less than two weeks ago, we resolved to re-build the directory from scratch. John took on the herculean task of developing an automated snapshot system to generate high-quality images with support for @font-face fonts; few of us believed it was even technically possible. For bonus points, he added Name and About search, plus a basic, but very helpful tagging system. Sean and Jack stayed up way past their bed times with some final nips and tucks like multi-views! And voila, the new Flavors Directory is finally ready for prime time!
All paid accounts can be included in the Directory. And those that shine will be featured prominently. Everything is optional. We hope it will make finding Flavors sites far easier and more enjoyable. Please excuse any hiccups that you encounter over the next few weeks :)
