Parents Is there a system for uploading music before a meet?

[agimiela]

I´m arranging a big gymnastics meet for my first time and I´m in charge of the music for the floor routine.
It has become clear to me that there should be a online system that would allow gymnasts to upload their own music and then it automatically ties up to the name (and later number).

Today we ask gymnasts to send their music via email and all the files are named in their own way which makes it awfully complicated. Also the room for error is quite big.

Does anyone know of a system like this?

sincerely,
norwegian gymnast dad

 

[Gymgirl84]

In our official meets I think they do use an informatics system that makes something similar to what you mention, but I hace no idea what it is. Probably was designed for the gymnastics federation. For that you have an online platform and you upload the music there.
Before that system was in place we had to send the music by e-mail but it had a name format. Ie. Surname_Name_Club_Category.mp3 and for nationals I think we had the number and it was added in some place.
Another system we use for an interclubs competition is having a google folder for each club and each club uploads the gymnast's music with the name in a format similar to the one I mentioned before.

 

[JBS]

Does anyone know of a system like this?

I do not… why not just have the coaches bring the music to the meet and play it on the fly?

 

[josie55]

I have thought for a long time that this sort of system should exist. Coaches could upload music at the beginning of a season and at each meet, it would create a playlist tied to floor rotation order. At our club’s meets, it works the way JBS said. Coaches just come up to the music area and plop down a player with their gymnast’s music. I think that most think this works just fine and there isn’t a lot of interest in changing it. But seeing the music person be stressed out working with a variety of players and cords and hoping s/he gets it right as the gymnast waits in their starting pose, I agree with you that there’s got to be a better system.

 

[GymnastMomX2]

A system like you’re talking out wouldn’t be that technically difficult to develop. I’m not sure it offers much benefit over what coaches do now though, which is plug in an iPad/ipod/phone into the sound system. Plus you’d have one more thing to troubleshoot and have coaches trying to do before the meet started. Maybe if all meets used the same system, and a coach could upload all their athletes music before the season. But then what if the WiFi goes out?

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Does USAG (or any of the commonly-used meet software) have an API with basic athlete info? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could pull info from that and associate a track with a specific athlete by USAG number; then, a meet director could simply plug in their rosters and automatically have all their music downloaded and ready to go.

.... my django skills are a bit rusty (and were never all that great to begin with), but if there's enough interest and ideally another web developer or two who can help out, I'd be down to put in what work I can to try to help build this, if it doesn't already exist.

 

[Gymgirl84]

I guess the advantage is that the musics are already organized. I'm not sure how the system works but I guess it can be ordered so with the meet order it can order the music and you only need to click play, and not have coach come at the table, plug the phone or pen drive,...
We do have a pen drive as a back up but we haven't used it in a long while.

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Does USAG (or any of the commonly-used meet software) have an API with basic athlete info? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could pull info from that and associate a track with a specific athlete by USAG number; then, a meet director could simply plug in their rosters and automatically have all their music downloaded and ready to go.

.... my django skills are a bit rusty (and were never all that great to begin with), but if there's enough interest and ideally another web developer or two who can help out, I'd be down to put in what work I can to try to help build this, if it doesn't already exist.

Ooh I'd love to try and help with building this. Admittedly haven't done web dev in a bit but I could brush up on stuff pretty quickly with school almost ending.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Ok, so

@agimiela @GymnastPotterhead @GymnastMomX2 and anybody else who may be interested:

If I/we were to try to get rolling on building such a thing, who all would want to be a part of it?

(Let me say point blank: for now, I wouldn't be able to treat this as much more than a casual side project that I work on when the urge strikes.)

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Ok, so

@agimiela @GymnastPotterhead @GymnastMomX2 and anybody else who may be interested:

If I/we were to try to get rolling on building such a thing, who all would want to be a part of it?

(Let me say point blank: for now, I wouldn't be able to treat this as much more than a casual side project that I work on when the urge strikes.)

Me! And that's so real haha. I dont know the rules for sharing personal info on chalkbucket but we could probably get a groupme or something going to discuss specifics and also a github for dev

 

[GymnastMomX2]

@Geoffrey Taucer My skills are mostly on the front end (React/javascript/Scss) and I have a little bit of a design background, count me in to help out.

We could spin up a slack or discord to chat about it?

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

@Geoffrey Taucer My skills are mostly on the front end (React/javascript/Scss) and I have a little bit of a design background, count me in to help out.

We could spin up a slack or discord to chat about it?

What experience I do have is on backend (most of it with python and django), so that's perfect. I'm definitely rusty, but I could probably get back into it.

I have discord, but don't know how to go about setting up a room/server/whatever we'd need

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

What experience I do have is on backend (most of it with python and django), so that's perfect. I'm definitely rusty, but I could probably get back into it.

I have discord, but don't know how to go about setting up a room/server/whatever we'd need

Here's a server. Doesn't have much there yet but we can just add stuff as needed: https://discord.gg/3AFHDyfG

Discord group would also work since there's just a few of us but that involves getting usernames and adding friends on discord so this was just easier