The Band

An experiment in playing collaborate online music, with the first step being karaoke, video style. See the blog post for significantly more detail.

Prerequisites

• If you don't already have it, get Firefox 4.0 or later

• Install the Mozilla Labs Rainbow add-on, v.0.4 or later.

• If you're on Mac (Snow Leopard in particular), after you've installed Rainbow and restarted, quit Firefox again. Then, open Terminal.app, and type:

  arch -i386 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin

Demo Sites

• Check out the demo site

• If recording doesn't appear to be working, review the Rainbow README.

Release notes

• If you're pulling a webm video file, be sure that your web server's mime.types file has the appropriate entry.