Man, am I going to love this. Can't wait for some of the cello solos.
If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!
Might keep you going for a bit. Colin Carr playing four of the six suites. CC licenced, lowish bit-rate mp3s
I can't play the All of Bach at all, suspect flash related (gnash/iceweasel on Debian Sid)
EDIT: yup, flashplayer-nonfree works. This being HN, do we think a flashplayer based solution is sensible for a long term project such as this? Is mass transcoding at some point in the future likely to be a trivial task?
Poking around it looks like they are hosted on Vimeo and that the default is HTML5/H.264 with fallback to flash. Assuming that iceweasel has H.264 support (IIRC there is a way to get it through ffmpeg) you can probably it could just be that they are doing UA sniffing and don't recognize your browser.
I had forgotten about Magnatune!
I used to buy all sorts of stuff from them. I always loved their approach, and its great to see that they still exist.
It also annoys me when what appears to be the background of a webpage is actually a link to somewhere, as I inevitably end up clicking it when trying reset the focus.
If anybody from the website is reading this, I have a tiny criticism: clicking anywhere on the page while the video is running closes the video. I don't know if I'm representative, but I often click in empty space to make sure my keyboard focus isn't in the video. I was disappointed when the organist was so abruptly cut off!