{"id":31270,"date":"2021-01-07T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31270"},"modified":"2021-01-15T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:50:42","slug":"audion-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/07\/audion-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Audion 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/facing-forward\/\">Panic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/facing-forward\/\"><p>Once upon a time, we made one of the earliest MP3 players for the Mac, Audion. We&rsquo;ve come to appreciate that Audion captured a special moment in time, and we&rsquo;ve been trying to preserve its history. <a href=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/saving-face\/\">Back in March<\/a>, we revealed that we were working on converting Audion faces to a more modern format so they could be preserved.<\/p><p>Since then, we&rsquo;ve succeeded in converting 867 faces, and are currently working on a further 15 faces, representing every Audion face we know of.<\/p><p>Today, we&rsquo;d like to give you the chance to experience these faces yourself on any Mac running 10.12 or later. We&rsquo;re releasing a stripped-down version of Audion for modern macOS to view these faces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/saving-audion-faces\/\">Saving Audion Faces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/12\/the-true-story-of-audion\/\">The True Story of Audion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"audion-4-0-update-2021-01-15\">Update (2021-01-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panic\/status\/1349831423948046336\">Panic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panic\/status\/1349831423948046336\">\n<p>Open sourcing this fun project quickly paid off &mdash; \n@irskep\n turned our work into a very cool Spotify player!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic: Once upon a time, we made one of the earliest MP3 players for the Mac, Audion. We&rsquo;ve come to appreciate that Audion captured a special moment in time, and we&rsquo;ve been trying to preserve its history. Back in March, we revealed that we were working on converting Audion faces to a more modern format [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-07T21:47:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"6229ea25-c7a1-41c4-a460-3e7837eeec18","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-16T00:50:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYinqJcehQcSkYD54N-7sGA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1452,295,30,32,1381,1891,157,1257],"class_list":["post-31270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audion","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-macos-11-0","tag-music","tag-spotify"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31345,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions\/31345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}