Audio Avatars

[thenumberthirteen]

The web is evolving and fancy new features are coming out with the adoption of stuff like HTML 5 and this new wave of integrated Multimedia experiences. But enough of the preamble.

Say The Escapist integrates a new feature. When you mouse over an avatar a small sound clip of the user's choice plays. Now it can only be a couple of seconds (so not a full song) plus it can be tied to sync up with an animated avatar (so they start and end at the same time if you want to).

My question is: What would your Audio avatar be, and why?

Mine would be the sound that goes with the clip my Avatar came from. Particularly the "ding" noise at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWA7uevo_Q#t=02m00s

Note: If you click the url above you'll see I linked to a specific time index in that video to do this simply add #t=02m00s (with the minutes and seconds set to the time you want) to the end of the core Youtube URL. It doesn't seem to work with embedding unfortunately.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Horrible idea. I move my mouse around a fair bit, I don't want to hear any noises for doing so.

It wouldn't serve to help identify people either, we already have Usernames, Titles, Avatars, and Badges for it. Adding anything else is just unnecessary.

Sorry, but this is a dreadful idea!

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

First allow me to say this would be a truly horrible idea. You'd have to deliberately avoid simply passing over people's avatars so as to avoid hearing everyone's stupid sound effects.

That said, Like most people I'd probably put a screaming noise or a porn noise.

 

[Dublin Solo]

I would do everything in my power to disable this thing, if it were to be împlemented. I'm the kind of person who select the "N o SOunds" option in Windows, can't stand hearing all the clicks and beeps and whatnots.

 

[Trivun]

I don't know, I can see why people wouldn't like it, but having an option for it to be there if people want would be such a happy medium, and I'd personally go for it. I'd probably have the first few bars of Metric's song Black Sheep (as played by The Clash At Demonhead in the Scott Pilgrim film) as my audio avatar, to be honest. I've ended up becoming slightly obsessed recently with that song .

 

[mb16]

i would so have mine as a ring tone or instant-messenger chime. I would be the most hated person here

or i would have nothing for a few seconds then a loud scream/shout

on a less annoying, or more. I really dont know. I would have this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcgGoV2cYM&feature=related

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Calumon saying "Hi, Wanna play?"

Calumon: What did you expect?

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Horrible idea. I move my mouse around a fair bit, I don't want to hear any noises for doing so.

It wouldn't serve to help identify people either, we already have Usernames, Titles, Avatars, and Badges for it. Adding anything else is just unnecessary.

Sorry, but this is a dreadful idea!

I agree.

Annoying avatars are plenty -- there is no good reason to add an annoying sound to it.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I'd probably have the first few bars of Metric's song Black Sheep (as played by The Clash At Demonhead in the Scott Pilgrim film) as my audio avatar, to be honest. I've ended up becoming slightly obsessed recently with that song .

Me too, unfortunately. Obssession with a single song is new to me, but there it is. Just the first couple of lines, too. I may have to listen...
No! Bad Joe. Stay off spotify! At least for now.

OT: I dunno, it seems a horrendously easy system to abuse, and I'm sure it would cause a lot of bugs, at least in its early life.

Oh, and I'd have an audio clip of Wobbuffet saying "Wobbuffet" from the pokémon animé. It would be awesome!