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80 points tomaspollak | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

10 years ago I began working on Muki, a web-based MIDI and chiptune player which I eventually announced here on HN[0]. It was a fun weekend project.

Over the years I received numerous requests from people that wanted more: more music, more features, more playable formats, you name it.

Eventually I began working on a complete rewrite of the app (this time for real), and, realizing that each year another chiptune or MIDI website went offline, I decided to start archiving them for preservation.

Today, 10 years after the first release, I think it's finally time for the new, nicer version to hit the shelves. It's now called Pixeltune and yes, now you can actually turn down the volume. :)

Hope you like it!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10305918

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squigz ◴[] No.41220760[source]
Haha, love the changelog, and love the tunes; nice job!

2024-08-11: The rewrite is done

It took a while but it's finally here. Support for playlists, favorite songs, WASM cores, new formats, etc. The list of supported formats now includes KSS, AY, Furnace and Famitracker songs, and much more (click on Song formats to see the full list).

...

(Time goes by)

2018-05-04: Began work on new version

This might take a while

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tomaspollak ◴[] No.41220893[source]
;)
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squigz ◴[] No.41221059[source]
Out of curiosity, what is the size on disk of the music collection? (485k songs)
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fourfour3 ◴[] No.41222980{3}[source]
Do you have any plans to let people download the music collection in bulk? eg a direct download or via archive.org?

You mention in your FAQ that preservation is a big goal of this for you, and this is a very impressive collection that I'd hate to see disappear like some of the original sites!

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tomaspollak ◴[] No.41223712{4}[source]
Good question. I was thinking of eventually putting the whole archive in a decentralized system like IPFS, but I guess archive.org is also fine.

However I want to wait a bit before doing so, because some of the archive sources haven't responded to the permission request I sent. And I don't want people to download their collections in bulk if they wouldn't want to.

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1. squigz ◴[] No.41236659{5}[source]
I would definitely be interested in this as well