It's a demo, but you may find some UI ideas interesting, for example synchronization and navigation through a video, flowing score, hiding the instrument parts that are not playing for a while, and assembling a score from small pieces with measure images hosted on multiple subdomains to improve the fetching performance in the browser.
I have considered that, actually. There are certain advantages with it - although, one thing that I like in particular with hosting the audio myself is that for example, I can slow it down to 25% speed and still have it sound great! Not possible with Youtube at the moment (if you slow down their videos, the results are deplorable).
Interesting demo! I definitely like the hiding of the instruments not playing.... also, lots of people seem to prefer a flowing score.
As for fetching more quickly, yup, also worth addressing.
Something similar: At the last Music Hack Day in Boston Joe Berkovitz of Noteflight, an online music score editor, implemented the Music Autocomplete idea using Peachnote's data, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-eF02Wmdw.
By the way, all functionality in Peachnote is exposed vie an API, so it's easy to experiment with.
Generally, if anybody here is interested in music n-grams and in doing something cool with the largest symbolic music data set available, please get in touch!
you may find Lev Gumilev's book "Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere" interesting, in particular the fifth chapter, Drive in Ethnogenesis - http://bit.ly/cSnuEN
Larry and Sergey Dump Shares of the Company and their respective mascots, events and info in the top right corner of the world's largest international multimedia news agency
but after a few more phrases the story gets into a loop.
The misnaming of fields of study is so common as to lead to what might be general systems laws.
For example, Frank Harary once suggested the law that any field that had the word "science" in its name was guaranteed thereby not to be a science. He would cite as examples Military Science, Library Science, Political Science, Homemaking Science, Social Science, and Computer Science.
Discuss the generality of this law, and possible reasons for its predictive power.
-- Gerald Weinberg, "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking."
We've built a similar thing at http://particellissima.net at the Classical Music Hack Day in Vienna.
It's a demo, but you may find some UI ideas interesting, for example synchronization and navigation through a video, flowing score, hiding the instrument parts that are not playing for a while, and assembling a score from small pieces with measure images hosted on multiple subdomains to improve the fetching performance in the browser.
And of course more music would be great!