Draft:Multiplayer Piano

Multiplayer Piano
	Screenshot of Multiplayer Piano in 2020
Created by	Brandon Lockaby
URL	multiplayerpiano.com
Launched	February 18, 2012; 12 years ago
Current status	Active
Content license	GNU General Public License
Written in	JavaScript

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Declined by Chetsford 4 months ago. Last edited by Hri7566 2 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Multiplayer Piano is a website that allows users to play a virtual piano with other users through the internet. It was published by Brandon Lockaby as a Google Chrome Experiment^[2] in 2012. Users can communicate through text-based chat, use physical MIDI devices to play music, and record their performances with a built-in MP3 recording interface.

History

Creation

Multiplayer Piano was created and published by Brandon Lockaby in 2012 and offered a piano which could be played and heard by other users. Later on in development, numerous features were added including a text-based chat box, a synthesizer, a sound selector, the ability to record in MP3 format, and the ability to browse and create new rooms.

The website initially used socket.io to power its multiplayer component before switching to WebSockets^[2] due to a requirement for more flexibility.

Sale of Multiplayer Piano

On October 24, 2020, Brandon Lockaby sold Multiplayer Piano for $6500 USD.^[3] This caused the site to degrade in performance over the course of early 2021, as there was no maintenance or payment being provided for the server software. This caused the site's reputation to sink drastically with its users, who had moved to a community-drive site branded as MultiplayerPiano.net (then known as MPPClone). This caused the buyer of Multiplayer Piano to become frustrated, threatening to take legal action against the owners of MPPClone^[4] and mirror their site with an iframe element with ads and a custom stylesheet over the community's site.

The site mirror persisted until October 2023, when the original server was brought online with drastic changes to the chat features, which now censors messages that include the terms "multiplayer piano", "mppclone", "clone", and "mpp". These measures dropped their reputation with the community even further.

Structure

When entering the site, the user is placed in a lobby. Lobbies are limited to 20 players. Once the limit is reached, a new lobby (lobbyN, where N represents the lobby number) will be created and the process repeats as more users join. Users may click on the room list and gain access to public user-owned rooms, which have no player limit.^[5] Users can also choose to make a private room, which makes it hidden from the public and creates a one in a trillion chance that someone will join your same private room.^[6]

Community

Multiplayer Piano is home to a sizable community, notably attracting computer programmers and various web enthusiasts.

In January 2013, Vsauce3 uploaded a video to YouTube showcasing Multiplayer Piano in its infancy, which caused a mass influx of users to join the site.

In 2017, Multiplayer Piano was featured alongside other Google Chrome Experiments in a YouTube video published by popular French video creator Squeezie, resulting in an influx of French users on the website.

At its peak in 2020, the site had over 1500 frequent visitors over the course of a few days showing on its now-unreachable Google Analytics dashboard.

References

^ "mpp-frontend-v1/LICENSE at master · multiplayerpiano/mpp-frontend-v1". GitHub. February 25, 2022. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Multiplayer Piano by Brandon Lockaby". Google Chrome Experiments. February 2012. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^ "Multiplayer Piano - Website sold on Flippa". Flippa. October 2020. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^ "The Recent MPP Switcharoo Situation". Multiplayer Piano Community Forum. 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
^ "'Multiplayer Piano' lets you make music with strangers over the web". The Verge. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ ""Multiplayer Piano, script.js (JavaScript)". Multiplayer Piano. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

External link

https://multiplayerpiano.com/

[Multiplayer_Piano_front-end_license_listed_on_GitHub-1] "mpp-frontend-v1/LICENSE at master · multiplayerpiano/mpp-frontend-v1". GitHub. February 25, 2022. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024.

[Multiplayer_Piano_listed_on_Google_Chrome_Experiments-2] "Multiplayer Piano by Brandon Lockaby". Google Chrome Experiments. February 2012. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

[Multiplayer_Piano_listed_for_sale_on_Flippa-3] "Multiplayer Piano - Website sold on Flippa". Flippa. October 2020. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

[4] "The Recent MPP Switcharoo Situation". Multiplayer Piano Community Forum. 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2024-08-08.

['Multiplayer_Piano'_lets_you_make_music_with_strangers_over_the_web-5] "'Multiplayer Piano' lets you make music with strangers over the web". The Verge. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

[Multiplayer_Piano,_JavaScript-6] ""Multiplayer Piano, script.js (JavaScript)". Multiplayer Piano. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

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