musicalman

@musicalman@dragonscave.space

Hello there! I'm just another blind, geeky audio person. My biggest interests are music transcription and various synthesizers. I also do a bit of gaming, though I tend to stick to action-based offline audio games. I'm fairly shy and reclusive, but I still hope I can contribute something interesting to your timeline!

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simon, to random

If we made a training dataset of millions of badly encoded MP3 files and their wave counterparts, I wonder if we could train a model that can restore bad MP3 files. Seems kinda similar to what Demucs is doing, but I don't know much about much where it concerns this type of training.

musicalman,

@simon Funny, I was literally just thinking about this a few hours ago lol. And it would probably be pretty trivial to do, just take one of the music separation data sets but use it for lossy artifact training instead. I think in order for that to actually work though, you'd have to first figure out a dsp algorithm that could reconstruct missing information (and afaik there are already a number of options), so training such a model should in theory be doable even now.

To address your point about Demucs: As I understand it, Demucs or other separation nets wouldn't be suitable because they can't synthesize information, only make really good guesses and separate with insanely fine toothed combs. On bass for example, Demucs often does scary things, but I'm like 90 percent sure it overestimates sometimes. If you're working with a really dense mix for instance, you can afford to give the bass a bit of extra guitar click or harmonics by accident without doing much damage to the rest of the signal. Especially if you have a really good idea of what basses are typically allowed to sound like.

musicalman, to random

So, this might be a longshot, but I'm kind of wondering if anyone even remotely knows what I'm talking about, or can give me some pointers.

When I was a kid, I got a cassette tape, I believe for Christmas, of Bugs Bunny hosting some sort of trivia show, with Daphie, Sylvester, Yosemity Sam, Tweedy and others as contestants. He would ask them trivia questions and they would give him often funny wrong answers. Over time, though, Bugs would elliminate the contestants for various reasons. I don't remember why, though. The only one I do remember is Sylvester trying to eat Tweedy. At the very end, someone overthrew Bugs and forced him to be a contestant on their new show or something. I think some of it was loosely based on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, but I'm not sure. It's been over 20 years since I heard this tape, and I only remember very specific moments from it. But I would instantly recognize it. There's a small chance I still have it, and maybe I'll digitize it although the quality might be pretty bad.

Anyhow, I'd love to know what this tape actually is called so I could look it up and see if there's a digital version I could get. Does anyone have any clue of a possible name or other lead I could search?

musicalman,

And yes I'm sure I spelled a lot of the names wrong. I was gonna look up correct spellings, but I'm too lazy and eager to just get the inquiry out lol

musicalman, to random

Rude. I was looking for an sD card reader I had lying around, and couldn't find it for the life of me. Had my mom looking for it, tearing the room apart with flashlight in hand, no dice. She finally! Found it. Apparently it was actually hiding under my keyboard. No idea how it got there either since it's not that thin. Only explanation I can think of was that it wasn't under the keyboard per say, but was buried in a little nook that we just happened to skim over. Still, slightly puzzled but relieved to know it didn't inexplicably go missing.

musicalman, to random

Not sure how many people do or don't know this so I'll put it out there. In most messaging apps I've used anyway, if you're in the message edit field, pressing enter will send the message. But if you instead want to put in a line break, hitting shift enter usually works. Of course if you want to be certain, test it in your app(s) of choice before doing it for real.

jaybird110127, to random

Please boost for reach. My dad and I both have iPhone SE second generation (2020) phones. For several months he has complained about intermittent sluggishness when doing just about anything involving a change of focus E.G. unlocking the phone and going to the Home screen, opening an app (whether it's already running or not), etc. Turning VoiceOver off and back on again usually fixes it temporarily, and so does restarting the phone. Sometimes making a change in some settings such as unpairing an old Apple Watch that he wasn't using would fix the problem, again temporarily. I hadn't experienced the problem until last night when it reared its ugly head on my phone. A restart of VoiceOver fixed it for me, and I thought I'd found the magic solution, only to have him tell me that's a very temporary fix. Both of us are totally blind, so we can't tell if the phone itself is slow to launch things, or if it's VoiceOver that's taking much longer than normal to react to changes on the screen. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, do you know of any solutions? Would getting an iPhone SE third generation fix it? What about resetting the phone and erasing all data, then restoring from iCloud? Thanks for any help.

musicalman,

@jaybird110127 I sadly don't have much for you, but if it started suddenly out of the blue, I'd try maybe checking battery health, maybe there's something funny going on. As a last resort, restore an affected device with ITunes or what have you and see if that fixes anything. If even that doesn't help, then it's likely a deeper issue perhaps with the hardware, but I really have no idea beyond that.

musicalman, to random

That moment when my headphone cable goes out, and I'm like, I think? I thiiink? I have a spare. Oh God I hope I do. Then I go frantically searching random drawers in my room until I indeed find that I have a spare. Few!

musicalman, to random

That moment when you write a post, check character count for fun and realize, hey, this would fit in Twitter's old 140 char limit.

musicalman, to random

If you need to turn off Snap Assist in Win11 because you're like me and are always accidentally going into it, go to settings > system > multitasking and turn off the "snap windows" option. Not sure if this will work for everyone since I don't remember seeing a multitasking thing in system settings before (granted I wasn't actually looking for it so maybe I just missed it) but yeah. That's apparently how you do it.

musicalman, to random

So, a few weeks ago I was messing with A Dark Room for the first time. Couldn't quite get into it so set it aside. I recently saw there was an update to modernize the UI and add sound effects, so I decided to give the game another chance. Unfortunately, Voiceover is really laggy in the app. Trying to figure out if this is an app issue, or if I perhaps am missing an IOS update, or maybe my IPhone's just too old to run it. Lol. Is the game lagging for anyone else?

musicalman,

@simon Oof, that sucks. I have to admit, the addition of sound effects always catches my interest, and from what I heard, the sound effects they give you are pretty cool. But the resource limiting sounds pretty meh. And being forced into landscape is something I can deal with, but this lag? Nope. Really hoping that of all things can be fixed.

musicalman,

@simon Oh boy. I'll look at it when I get a chance.

musicalman, to random

Omg, that moment when I'm watching a movie or documentary, and the background music is so intense and awesome that I just wanna hear it in isolation.

musicalman,

@simon Yeah I know. It's kinda hit or miss when I do that. A lot of the music I like from documentaries in particular are probably from music libraries Shazam doesn't know about.

datajake1999, to random

Apparently, Snoopi Botten has been doing experiments with a DECtalk AI model. Here is a cover of Chattanooga Choo Choo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8zSsmLzVWE

musicalman,

@datajake1999 Might be RVC.

simon, to random

Mastodon: Where you can ask the @gutenberg_org account to include more detail in their alt text and it actually happens. Sometimes, the internet is genuinely a really cool place, and I'm so glad to be part of the little corners where good things are happening.

musicalman,

@simon Yep, agreed. A few months ago I was having issues using a beta update for an application, and when I reported my error on the Discord, someone pointed out that some old config files might be broken/out of date. So I was preparing to completely reinstall everything (since apparently my issue wasn't common) but before I could get into that, they just went ahead and sent me the working configs. I didn't ask them to, they just did it.

musicalman, to random

Random thing: When I was in 8th grade we had vocabulary homework. You'd get a list of 10-20 words and have to look them up and learn their definitions.

My little brain at the time couldn't handle the definitions I saw at dictionary.com. I honestly can't remember why, but for one reason or another I was losing it and going into partial meltdown mode. My parents did the usual thing of trying to calm me down without really being helpful. I think my mom or stepdad (or both) at one point snapped and said, if this dictionary is too hard for you, quit crying about it and use another one. Okay maybe not quite that harsh, but it wasnt pleasant either.

Thankfully the stars aligned, an angel saw my plight and stepped in. Or something. Because 5 minutes after that, I found Cambridge English dictionary and have been using it since. It just occurred to me that I've been using it for what, 16 years now? Jesus! But 99 percent of the time the definitions just, make sense, or they use words simple enough that I can parse it without bringing on an overload.

For those interested, the url is: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

musicalman, to random

That moment when something breaks on the pc, you frantically try to ask uncle Google if he? It? Can help you find a sollution to the problem, and you're about to start trying one when the problem suddenly goes away.

jaybird110127, to random

Silly concentration game idea: Sometimes I do this just for fun, just in my mind. Select, say, seven digits at random. Recite them. Provide no way to repeat them. Ask the question: What digits were not used in this string of numbers? Example: The randomly selected digits are 2, 9, 5, 1, 3, 8, 6. The correct digits to be input, in any order, are 4, 0, 7.

musicalman,

@jaybird110127 I might try coding a little game based on that actually. Thanks for the idea!

musicalman, to random

Omg. 2007 me was so good at naming his recordings. Inside an audio folder, there are things like, Microphones6.wav. Which I happen to know is what I believe to be the 6th half serious recording I made with my new binaural mics at the time (though in actuality, it probably isn't the 6th recording since there are other random different binaural files in there as well). Oh and also there are folders called 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. which correspond to different card backups from my digital recorder, and again, I don't think this is a clean record of things because some folders are missing or empty. I mean, this all roughly works I guess, but why didn't I put datestamps on any of this? I know, tmw... But still. As much as I randomly record shit these days, I need, to keep things organized by date, or I'll have no clue what to call things or where certain things come from.

jaybird110127, to random

Got my Zoom H1E today. Love the accessibility and 32-bit float. A bit disappointed in the noise floor if you use an aggressive dynamic normalizer during quiet parts of recordings. But it's a $99 recorder, you can't have everything.

musicalman,

@jaybird110127 Do you know if the noise floor is worse on the h1e than it is on, say, the older h1? If they're comparable then I'd be okay, but yeah if it's gotten worse then I'd be fairly annoyed. Lol

musicalman,

@jaybird110127 What are you using to normalize? and what do you mean by dynamic normalizing? I'm a bit lost here.

simon, to random

I really like the time measurement feature on the Zoom H1E. Apparently I can record more than 92 hours of audio at 48 KHZ onto this 128GB card. It's a relatively bad Amazon Basics 128GB card, so I'm waiting on a 256. This makes me think I should just switch to 96 KHZ just because I can. Storage is absurdly cheap now.

musicalman,

@simon Huh, so Zoom recorders broke their 32 gb storage limit? At least I was under the impression 32 gb used to be the max. This is all the more reason for me to really wanna get one, apart from the accessibility. I might end up getting the h6e because I like the 120 degree XY capsule I have. Kinda wishing there was an h5e because I dont need the extra tracks but oh well lol

Caoimhe, to random
@Caoimhe@dragonscave.space avatar

I have a weird question: Do you guys swing your arms when walking? When I was around 8, my mobility instructor said that I don't do it, and look and walk very robotic. She decided to teach me how to swing my arms properly, but it didn't work out. I only remembered about it today and realized that I never ended up doing it despite all her attempts to get me to, or at least I can't remember myself ever doing that. It just seems so odd to try to do it on purpose when it's not something you naturally do.

musicalman,

@Caoimhe I probably do it if I'm pacing or thinking about something exciting, but that's less of a normal walk movement and more of a stim. Imho nobody should try to teach you how to look natural on purpose, that never, ever works.

musicalman, to random

Oof. That moment when you're trying a piece of software written by a friend who you trust and have known for years, and Microsoft Defender flags it as a virus, yet virustotal is showing minimal or no detections. Yay for security, and double yay for exclusions, I guess?

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