Medium Sounds

@eriktorenberg Yep, that sort of thing helps the nudge away from "magazine on the internet" and into "online magazine". And, of course, should be a good match for music writing.

@eriktorenberg I feel like that gets so distracting though.

@eriktorenberg @tzhongg you have a good point. I experimented a little with it yesterday and noticed, for some articles (with the right music), it becomes a beautiful experience. Other articles, especially those with a complex narrative, don't mix well with lyrically heavy music. So, if someone goes through all the work to craft music specifically for an article, or vice versa, then it becomes really interesting. Or, to take it even further, to tie certain scroll positions of a post to certain songs or cue positions in a song. Like a musically interactive fairy tale type of thing.

@eriktorenberg @tzhongg @mittermayr Came in here to make that point, about tying segments of songs to portions of an article -- how cool would a "best music of the year" post be with the best track from the album you're reading about playing in the background, and changing once you scroll to the next one?

@bhorowitz has been doing this for ages. 😄

@eliotpeper neat idea. generally, I think there should also be a pre-selected library of songs that match well with reading (not everything is suitable, often too distracting). so you pick one of the recommended songs, but you can also go and find your own.

@karangoel yes, I tried hard making this work (well, I spent 15 minutes on trying to figure out a better way). Medium has a frame-buster, they don't like being embedded much, it seems. There is an embed widget, but it would only display summaries. And I even tried with an old-school frameset, but that also didn't fly. So I had to bypass the framebuster to stick it in place. All problems would be fixed if I could embed this into a frameset or iFrame type of thing, of course.