Aureal: Opensourcing Mobile and Development updates

in #hive3 years ago (edited)

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If you are Flutter developer, feel free to join and help developing features we all love using, Aureal Mobile is open-sourced.

Updates for far:

  • Aureal web is getting a design upgrade, enough to challenge traditional audio ecosystems with features involving Live rooms, better recommendation systems, better search and proper content segregation
  • A new wallet interface.
  • Improved search
  • Push notifications now navigate to your specific screens
  • Better notifications for your ongoing episodes.
  • Tipping on App.aureal.one
  • Performance upgrades (Running continuously)
  • Redesigned web UI to be live within 2 weeks.
  • Aureal Live Design in progress
  • Recorder to add sponsored segments done.
  • You can edit your audio on Aureal.
  • Query time optimisation in progress.

What Changed ?

We believe Aureal is a funnel for Hive ecosystem to get better adoption in terms of new users and vesting into hive blockchain as the targeted users are not really aware about the features of this ecosystem.

It becomes a dire need to simplify things for them, hence we went onto the redesign of the entire platform to better serve the need of the new users onboarding.

Aureal web is changing from this ----------------->

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to this ------------------>

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You'll be looking at these changes live in 2 weeks.

Aureal on iOS

We're currently making changes as they are being specified by app store for Aureal to get accepted there hence things are getting a little delayed, because apple being apple.

Query time optimisation

As the Aureal is mostly consumer facing revolving around communities, we're currently working on making the response time better, If you are an android user, you'll be able to see the performance upgrades for response time.

Last month has been hectic for us, as India is facing a disastrous second wave of Covid and half of our team has fought through it for a month and there are been delays.

We're more spirited to deliver and get the best experiences possible on Aureal for our users.

Marketing report coming soon.

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I just found out about Aureal on Marketsquare and immediately submitted my podcast (Strength In Business). I'm waiting for it to be linked to my profile on Aureal. I've been looking for ways that integrate podcasting into the blockchain ecosystem for quite some time now. LBRY recently added a new feature allowing audio podcasters to manually upload their podcasts -- it's a great step forward but still very tedious. The fact that you can pull all episodes in by providing you with the RSS feed is absolutely dope! This is phenomenal and the new layout for Aureal 2.0 looks stunning. THANK YOU for taking on this project!

Hey @kriszrokk, Thank you for having your podcast on Aureal! You can join our discord channel, if you need any help, we would love you guide you through it. https://discord.gg/nGdmwZfNMr

Hi @blockanarchist1, it looks like the tool is quite buggy as it's in the early stages. I can't access the show on Aureal although it's searchable and it hasn't been attributed to my profile. On top of it, there was one random episode published to my Hive account: https://hive.blog/hive-197565/@kriszrokk/3-actionable-marketing-tactics-to-increase-cash-flow

I have over 100 active episodes; will these be published now randomly on Aureal / Hive?
Thank you for looking into it.

We're looking into it right away.

You can choose too publish the episodes manually, but anytime when you publish a new episode anywhere, the new episode gets published automatically.

Also only the new episodes are published automatically, the episodes prior to that gets published as per your convenience. The team has immediately started looking into it, I would love to have a chat with you to find and rectify this bug, What the best way to connect with you ?

OK, it looks like things are quite messy as the episode that got published is from February 2018 and I haven't done anything to publish it on Hive. It was chosen randomly, totally out of the blue it seems.
Here's the original source:
https://www.strengthinbusiness.com/3-actionable-marketing-tactics-increase-cash-flow/
A new episode will be out next week.
Yes, we can have a chat. I'm available tomorrow 2-3 PM CET. An encrypted chat provider preferably, just send me the link.
Thanks for looking into it. I appreciate you!

Hey @kriszrokk, We found the issue. It's the first time we had a podcast on Hive which had more than 200 episodes. We've rectified the issue and releasing the update in a day. You won't find it so messy anymore. Moreover, any new episode from now on will get published, and you'll have the option to publish your previous episode at your will.

Thank you for using Aureal, I'm thankful to you for having us find this issue. and I really appreciate you helping us make the platform better.

That's excellent news! Thank you.

And Thank you for your kind words :)

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Hi Shubham (@blockanarchist1), I wanted to touch base and see how the upgrade is coming along. Have you fixed a date?

Furthermore, I'd like to point out two more issues:

  1. My recent episode from 2 days ago wasn't fetched automatically as you mentioned. It doesn't show on Aureal and it wasn't published to Hive either. Can you please look into the issue?
    Here's the episode I'm referring to: https://www.strengthinbusiness.com/3-powerful-books-to-strengthen-your-mental-stamina/

  2. I also see an issue in regards to the order episodes are displayed on Aureal. The most recent show should be displayed first, not the oldest. This is how centralized podcatchers such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music & Co. are doing it and it's a very good practice. It would be great if you could raise this issue in your team and fix it as well.

Looking forward to the update. Have a great day.

Hey @kriszrokk, The new upgrade is coming on May 26th, We're fixing the final issues in the new version.

To look into this issue further, can you please let me know the hosting provider you're using ?
Also the team as noted this issue, we'll have this rectified within a day.

And thank you for all your feedbacks and the feedbacks in the future, it's helping us to reiterate our platform, look for the mistakes and make it better :)

The recent episode was now published to both Aureal and Hive (2 hours ago). I'm using Blubrry as a host.
AND I'm happy to provide you with feedback from the trenches so that you can improve the product faster.
May 26th is just around the corner, nice ;)

Hey @blockanarchist1, How are things coming along? No upgrade yet; guess you're still in the trenches fighting for the release.

Hey @kriszrokk the update is live since 26 May, You can visit https://aureal.one and access the new version. I was supposed to write up an update post about it. We're currently working on making Aureal Rooms live. :) I hope you enjoy this version.

Hey @blockanarchist1, love the dark mode ;) The new version looks a lot better than the old one; good job! The Live room will really set you apart from the centralized providers. Great add-on to have. One thing that still bothers me is the fact that all my episodes are displayed in reverse order; that is the oldest shows first (except the last release that was pulled after our last chat). Could you please look into this? I appreciate it. Thank you!

Give me 5 min, I'll reverse the episode order :D

Hi @blockanarchist1, reaching out to you with some updated / new feedback.

  1. First of all, kudos to the 'fetching speed' you've implemented - meaning: my last episode was published instantly on Aureal AKA the newest release was picked up immediately. You guys were quicker than Apple podcasts ;) Awesome job!
  2. Re. episode order: this issue is still not fixed. Episode displayed #3 "Business Rescue: Interview With Business Expert Trevi Lim" should be the last one.
  3. Bio in Aureal.one: Is there a way to add smth (edit) the profile? The description of the podcast show is fetched automatically from the RSS feed but what about the podcast host? Would be nice to be able to add some info.
  4. Frontend / editing episode summary: I'm acutely aware of the fact that Aureal pulls in the info that is provided in the summary of each episode. After the episode is published I always pull up PeakD to edit the summary and make it more relevant to the Aureal / Hive audience. Is there a way to edit everything inside the Aureal frontend on the desktop? Being able to edit the description before publishing would be amazing although I reckon this is an additional burden. However, performing the manual work inside Aureal.one so that it displays accordingly on the Hive blockchain and say, inside the Aureal community would be very beneficial.

Thank you! AND I love the new interface 👍