I would like to bring to your attention an idea I had about a possible improvement to the current AudioJungle player. This new feature could provide both authors and clients with markers on the timeline and links in the description that move the player current position to the beginning of the multiple versions. I put together a little script that simulates how the player could work if that feature were implemented.
I would like to know your opinion about this simple idea.
Yes, yes, yes! I see how this functionality can be quite helpful to our potential customers. I can imagine no downside to this whatsoever. Perhaps we would need to institute a best practices guideline for constructing our demo tracks - for instance, recommend a 2 or 3 second gap between versions to insure the code sees the separation between edits. But perhaps, even this is not needed?
I would fully support this function, and cheers to you for being proactive in developing this. I hope it will be instituted!
The AudioJungle General File Preparation Guidelines already recommend to specify the versions in the description. I believe it could be enough if we could standardize that section of the description, maybe adding it to the submission form in a more detailed way than how it is now. Once the author writes the right data there, it would be easy for a script like the one I created to extract the timing information from the description and automatically create markers and links.
Itâs a great idea. And if this player will have statistics about clicks (how many clicks were made on every part, everage time of listening etc) it would be just killer idea!
And what about the preview player?
Of course, the preview player can be adjusted accordingly. Once the description contains the timing information of the versions, written appropriately, that data could be used site-wide for both the single audio page player and the search page.
I hear what you are saying and this makes me sad for two reasons: first of all, because it makes it pointless to have an Envato community if Envato doesnât weigh in the conversations over here; second, because I saw that you removed your post right after reading this one.
I must say, though, that there could be something regarding your idea that justifies Envatoâs reply (âI canât promise anythingâ) and prevents them from integrating it in the system. What if one track of yours has already sold 1000 licenses and accumulateld 5000 downloads but, while they kept tracks of the former, they never thought of storing somewhere the count for the latter? Well, as soon as they start counting the downloads, if they never did it before, you would have 1000 for the licenses and 0 for the downloads, which is going to be pretty confusing and misleading. Or you could have 1000 for both as a starting point⌠but even that is pretty meaningless. That is why I can see why they could have some second thoughts regarding your idea.
Donât get me wrong! I completely support your idea and I donât know why they did not even of it in the first place. Even the player I am selling on CodeCanyon does that on every track: as soon as you click on the download button, the counter increases like a âFacebook Likeâ button does, with the visual feedback of the total number of downloads.
But if they never kept track of the downloads, starting now would create a discrepancy between what you see and what is real, that you will never know anyway. I hope this makes sense.
I think this would be a fantastic idea, especially now that AudioJungle track lengths are listed as the length the of the preview, not the individual versions. This would be a great way to get rid of confusion and make it more obvious to buyers what value theyâre getting.
Hope Envato will consider this !
