media.io is now much more awesome.

What’s new?

• More privacy. Resolving this problem, in addition to adding Cache-Control: private headers to most pages, ensures that the details of your uploads are hidden from me and proxies.
• Support for files without extension. When you convert audio online at media.io now, your file doesn’t need an extension.
• Support for WAV encapsulated MPEG audio. This was a common cause of problems.
• Support for WMA. media.io now supports decoding from and to Windows Audio.
• There’s now a table that explains what formats are supported.
• Easier file uploading. I’ve posted a screenshot of the new upload progress bar before. I hope you like it.
• A different look. I did rearrange certain links on the page. Also, I incorporated some ideas I got from the user tests I ran on media.io.

Coming soon

Some of the things I will enable soon is support for FLAC.

Screenshots

I’m attaching two screenshots to this post, the first one is “before,” the second one “after.” Enjoy.

I’ll try to make this the last update before launching media.io. :-)

After realizing that I had massive problems with Flash uploads, I went to simple HTML uploads. Unfortunately, this forced me to rewrite large parts of the code.

• I had to change the upload Servlet to handle the different format of HTML uploads (compared to Flash uploads).
• Most of the jQuery code had to be rewritten.
• JavaScript libraries had to be restructured.

Anyway, I’ll have Norman beta-test the new version this evening and then we’ll see if I can launch the site tomorrow. :-)

Oh yes, here’s a new screenshot.