Archive.org Collection? by Basillica at 9:47 PM EDT on June 1, 2019
Has anyone considered uploading all the rips to an organized Archive.org collection? There are a lot of rips here that can't be found anywhere else, and I think there should be a backup in case anything happens.
I've noticed that archive.org leans towards the ability to stream media (or play, when games are involved). Anyone know of any web players for emulated music formats? It could help encourage te creation of a collection.
Some time ago I was toying with emscripten and got vgmstream compiled to asm.js/wasm, just basic test.exe tho.
Getting it streaming files from HDD or URLs seemed a bit involved (but definitely doable), plus maybe it would be better integrated with some web player, and I didn't think there was much interest, so I left the idea in the sidelines. It would be a fun, little cool thing to have around though.
According to this blog, IA is using jwplayer for media, though I haven't found a repo with their customizations for it. I think they're currently serving 8.8.2 according to the license text, which is all I can read in the minified code. JW Player has a non-commercial only license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States).
I think it wouldn't be too bad to just load the file completely and blast the results out via webaudio. I've written this a few times in little one-off hacks, latest is Gerudo Valley via dual DSP (ripped from Melee). The buffers are probably too short.