Real-Time Audio Interactions
While Sangita was initially designed as a desktop web application, beta testing revealed a need for a mobile first approach. Users are used to using their phones to both record and watch audio and video, and the resistance to usage with a laptop is much higher than with a mobile device.
Users interact with audio in both the Practice Room and the Raga Library. In the Practice Room, audio can be recorded and played back. In the Raga Library, users can play pre-loaded audio. This section will focus on the real-time audio experience in the Practice Room.
Practice Room
Users in the Practice Room should be able to quickly alternate between recording and analysis. When recording is paused, users can scrub and playback audio. Selecting Record from a paused state resumes the recording from the end of the recording, rather than overwriting existing audio.
Audio Scrubbing
Beta testing in the fall of 2024 revealed a need for users to quickly navigate to different time regions of their practice session without repeatedly clicking “rewind”, or horizontally scrolling horizontally excessively.
The anatomy of the scrubber can be broken into a draggable region, a blue line indicator of the exact time stamp (controlled using the time-bar, not the scrubber), and a diagram of the practice session, which dynamically updates as a user records a session.
Tuner Widget
The tuner widget lives in the Practice Room controls, and maps the cent deviance from the note the user is closest to (50> cents away from).
Accurate: 0-5 cents, Close: 5-20 cents, Far: 20-50 cents (from left to right)