I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Congrats on the launch, dude.
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Indeed, I wanted to start it right away but with Google you never know when things will get approved, when it's available and you can only start a "sale" in the future. To be honest I'm not even 100% sure of the time it will start, if it's 00:01 in NZ or GMT...
Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
And...the promo is live!
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
It works!
I couldn't get it to load .wav files, but .MP3 worked fine.
I've been wanting something like this so thank you.
I couldn't get it to load .wav files, but .MP3 worked fine.
I've been wanting something like this so thank you.
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Excellent app man!
Loaded a couple of Neil Young tracks up and had a play and it works really well.
Well done!
Loaded a couple of Neil Young tracks up and had a play and it works really well.
Well done!
Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Thank you! If you like the app please take a few seconds to add an evaluation and/or comment on the play store. Such evaluations will make a huge difference has this is how Google decide the order when people are searching an app. If many could discover it in the next few days it would be awesome!
Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Only New Zealand and France. I really need to check how the system "hold the load" without pushing things too much or users would have to wait for a long time before getting their song.
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
I've downloaded, will see if I have some time to evaluate it in the next few days
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Thanks for this test. In theory file formats other than MP3 can work, yet I did not test that yet and most likely something fails for a stupid reason, Furthermore Wav files are posing another kind of constraints as they are way bigger, I'll look into that.
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Ok, I tried it with a 9 minute long mp3 - it took ages to prepare the song but the results were good
I use backing tracks as a solo musician at Church and I need to change the key of the song to suit whoever might be my vocalist.
There are three issues for me.
1. not being able to change key.
2. not being able to rename the songfile.
3. not being able to export the song file with the vocals removed.
I could work around the first two points by using another app if it was possible to export the file.
I use backing tracks as a solo musician at Church and I need to change the key of the song to suit whoever might be my vocalist.
There are three issues for me.
1. not being able to change key.
2. not being able to rename the songfile.
3. not being able to export the song file with the vocals removed.
I could work around the first two points by using another app if it was possible to export the file.
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
i've done some further testing.
There is a volume drop & muffled effect with the vocals removed (which is to be expected) but this app does remove vocals better than what I could ever achieve with my normal program - Audacity, however the quality means that the tracks are only good enough for practise and are not suitable for use as live backing tracks.
I will be interested in seeing how this app evolves in the future - good effort though.
There is a volume drop & muffled effect with the vocals removed (which is to be expected) but this app does remove vocals better than what I could ever achieve with my normal program - Audacity, however the quality means that the tracks are only good enough for practise and are not suitable for use as live backing tracks.
I will be interested in seeing how this app evolves in the future - good effort though.
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Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Thanks for your feedback. Here are a few
1. If I understand correctly, you should be able to do that using the top right buttons, see the screenshot.
Tell me if that fits your needs please.
2. Agreed, right now if you have MP3 files without tags you are stuck with "Unknown - Unknown". I'd like to fix that soon in the meantime the workaround is to set author/title tags on the original MP3 file.
3. That's on the roadmap!
Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
I'm putting the final touch on an update right now to take in account some of the feedback I had here, and once this is done I'll experiment to see if I can improve on the volume drops. It is not noticeable on every song but for some music styles it really is!H671 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:17 am i've done some further testing.
There is a volume drop & muffled effect with the vocals removed (which is to be expected) but this app does remove vocals better than what I could ever achieve with my normal program - Audacity, however the quality means that the tracks are only good enough for practise and are not suitable for use as live backing tracks.
I will be interested in seeing how this app evolves in the future - good effort though.
I guess (but I'll have to try) that I could normalize the volume of some tracks individually, the "Guitar" and "Bass" ones especially and that would prevent such drops (or make them less noticeable). Obviously I don't want to mess up other songs neither I'll have to check on a pretty wide set of songs... If you can share titles where you noticed it strongly that could help, but I'm pretty sure I'll find some in rock music when the vocals are appearing in "burst".
Re: I built an Android App to create backing tracks, anybody up to give it a try ?
Hi Folks! Thanks for your feedback, a weekly update is being deployed right now:
- [NEW FEATURE] add the ability to edit artist and song title
- display "Loading.." while the music catalog is loading.
- UI responsiveness improvements
- add a welcoming animation to highlight the buttons and their purpose.
- embed a "Rate App" dialog.
- Fix catalog which would not filter songs correctly from time to time
- Introduce new tutorial animation to discover the tracks buttons
- enable crash monitoring
The discount ends this sunday (most likely at the end of the day in UTC timezone) and after that will be 1.69$, if you know anybody which might be interested now is a good time to send him/her the link to install it while it's free:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... okemymusic
- [NEW FEATURE] add the ability to edit artist and song title
- display "Loading.." while the music catalog is loading.
- UI responsiveness improvements
- add a welcoming animation to highlight the buttons and their purpose.
- embed a "Rate App" dialog.
- Fix catalog which would not filter songs correctly from time to time
- Introduce new tutorial animation to discover the tracks buttons
- enable crash monitoring
The discount ends this sunday (most likely at the end of the day in UTC timezone) and after that will be 1.69$, if you know anybody which might be interested now is a good time to send him/her the link to install it while it's free:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... okemymusic