Time for exciting, new things at media.io! Since the last update, I haven’t done a lot I confess, but at least this:

• “Download Links” are no more. From my conversion rates, I noticed that people didn’t seem to understand what the download links were meant to do so this feature is gone.
• Fixed download encoding issues. @Warin notified me of a problem when downloading files with certain characters in the file name. This might have been a big problem that’s now resolved.
• Impromptu instead of Thickbox. The venerable ThickBox has been replaced by the newer Impromptu that’s at least as good, if not better.

Coming Soon

I’ve also changed one or two things here and there, as evidenced by the screenshots below. And there are more changes in the works (yes, including support for WebKit and mobile browsers). As always, if you have questions or need a feature when converting audio online, please let me know.

I can’t believe it myself but, after 2 and a half months, media.io is finally live!

Check it out

I had to make some last-minute tweaks to get everything to work, including

• Migrating to Tomcat. Orion and lighttpd didn’t support streaming uploads.
• Rewriting some JavaScript.
• Changing the LAME configuration.

In the end, things finally worked out and media.io is finally here.

In the next weeks, I will concentrate on improving the user interface and adding the things you want most.

Post your ideas

If you would like me to add support for a specific audio format, please post a topic in the support forum. Posting is quick and can be made anonymously.

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.