Hello friends,
I am a long-time member here, though I've contributed hardly any, and my compositions sit neatly below the rest of yours in every possible measure (har). Fortunately, my day job isn't making music; I'm a software engineer. I'm here to ask you for your feedback on a project I've been working on in the free time I've had that isn't reserved for feeling musically inferior to all of you.
The project is, for the moment, a proof of concept. The goal is to create an ear training application that will work on any capable device you own. Presently, this mostly means just your PC/Mac, however, over the coming year or two HTML 5 adoption should bloom. Hopefully with proper respect to the <audio> tag (I'm angrily shaking my fist at you, iPhone!). (Note: I was having a little trouble with Chrome support, so for the moment the site has been switched to flash and _not_ HTML 5 :( )
I'm going to leave it at that for now, I'd like to get some responses before I bias your experience any further.
If you have not done so, please visit http://rocketears.com now. Thanks.
If you feel like making your feedback more informative for me, you could do me the additional favor of completing this survey along with any other feedback you have.
1) Did the site seem to work properly for you?
2) What browser are you using? What operating system (and version, if known)?
3) Have you ever used, or do you presently use an ear training application? If so, which one(s)?
4) What is your estimated level of musical training?
5) What was the length of time you spent using rocketears.com?
6) What was your first impression?
7) Did you ever not know what to do? If so, how would you recommend resolving the issue?
8) Did the audio play back properly? How would you rank the sound quality?
9) Do you feel that using rocketears.com on a regular basis would improve your recognition of intervals? If not, why not?
10) Assuming that rocketears.com was more fully featured (chord-type ear training, functional ear training, statistics, etc) would you continue using it? Would you pay for it?
If you took the time necessary to fill all of that out, I am in your debt. Should rocketears.com ever launch as a full product, you will receive free lifetime access.
Thank you,
rocketears.com
P.S. I hope this isn't considered spam. :)