In a comment I’ve made a little bit ago, I mentioned that I was tasking myself to discover music that was played on an old radio program that I listened to from the 2000s. And it is looking to be a lot more prolonged and tedious than I had thought. I’ve been able to find a program that has done an amazing job at removing the host’s voices to where, I can’t tell where they start or stop talking, I get hints that there were points of voices being there, but it’s non-existent.
I’ve tried before in the past to use Audacity, but being that all recordings were done in Mono and not Stereo, no matter what I tried, the voices would still remain. So now that hurdle is done with, the next task is to go through all 139 episodes and all episodes average 1 hour to 2 hours. That’s a long time if you’re doing radio or podcasting, it’s a lot of talking to do. Then it’s a matter of listening back and forth at one points certain songs begin and end, marking times to point them out with.
I might pick out some standout favorites, episodes that contained the most songs that I would have wanted the most from them. Then once all of that is figured, the next course of action is to clean up the sample audio, because most of these episodes were recorded in Mono so there’s going to be a lot of distortion and muddiness.
Then once all of that is done, the next challenging task is, actually finding someone who’ll be able to identify what is played. I don’t know electronic/techno music too well, I’m not entirely familiar with artists outside Daft Punk, Celldweller, 3Teeth and Pendulum to name a few. The only thing that sortof helps narrow things down is that they were all played on DI.FM at the time, so it may or may not help.
From there, it’s just hoping I find them out there online.
It’s a big project, but I’ve listened to these episodes for 18 years now and what kept me coming back to them besides nostalgic purposes, was the music played in them that never got identified.
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I’m making a graphic audiobook for my novel. I’m close to finishing recording all lines with the voice actors and I’m now assembling all of the 20 chapters together. I’ve been working on this since October so I guess you could say it’s a major project.
I’m saving up for a new gaming machine and/or a mini pc. I have a Mac mini right now, but I’m mostly done with Apple since Tim Apple keeps bootlicking drumpf. So I’m looking to get back to Linux. Plus with all this fucking age verification shit, I wanna go to Linux since that may be the last bastion of freedom.
Anyway, it’s gonna take me a long fucking time. But I want to do this
Not here to self promote but one thing I’ve started and have actually been sticking to, surprisingly, is game streaming. I’m just playing doing my thing, but eventually I’d like to take it one step further and get viewers.
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framed_text) is pretty much complete and now has entered maintenance mode, where I’ll mainly fix bugs and only add something if I need it.However, I’ve started work on a Logging Python package that allows for full customization of the log text (How its structured), whether to log it to the console, a file, or both. Plus a timer for timing code execution (TBD).
Mainly making it for my sake, but I’ll upload it anyway in case someone else wants to use it. (That’s basically my programming philosophy)
I started a skacore band, and it looks like we’re finally coming together!
New campaign in my D&D world.
700 years ago the moon fell and devastated the land.
This island in particular almost split in two entirely, and a minor god died in the process of saving it.
Now the characters are sent on a mission to prevent a war by destroying one side of the land. In the process they may uncover how they are being used, by who, what really happened back then, who the god was, and the real danger to the lands.
Or they can just do what they were told and blow stuff up… except one character is a secret agent hoping to destroy the other side if it comes to that.
I finished Microtonal music grid :
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-gridIt’s a step sequencer that lets you play in arbitrary scales, and arbitrary even temperment music systems, and it’s so simple to use a child could do it.
I finished a bill database manager in django. It sounds fancy but you just choose where a file is and where you want it to go, or where a file is, and say how much the payment was and why it was done. It’s to help manage tax returns or the like. I made it very, very simple on purpose.
I’m working on a spending tracker, in django again, and trying to create an android app that can scan receipts so you can send data from pictures you take into it. I’ve got the DB running, I’ve got the android app sending data into a placeholder in the DB, and the next step is to create some adjustments to the android app so that you can clean up and structure the text into decent entries and put them into the db that way.
I need to clean up the microtonal grid codebase, put the bill db manager on my personal server, and start recording videos for publicity and code breakdowns and demos etc so I can build some kind of publicity arm.
been writing a novel. almost done with the first of three books.
I’ve been writing a new players guide for Elite: Dangerous in detail along with putting together a squadron to teach new players. It’s been the most involved I’ve ever been with an online game by far.
Tiny home that I’m moving into in two weeks. And then a larger home that I plan on moving into at the end of the year if i can ever get my contractor to fix the mess his “buddy” made on the last roof repair.
And then, in addition to those two, just myself.
I’m just out here surviving. Who has time, energy or money for projects?
This sounds so fun. And overwhelming. Truly the hallmarks of a major personal project!
There might be a way to use technology to help with some of the song ID.
MusicBrainz Picard is a free service with apps and an API you can call to identify a sonic fingerprint of a song. It might be able to help you, but I don’t know if the audio artifacts you’re cleaning up would interfere with the matching.
There’s also apps like SoundHound and Pandora that were all the rage. They are half decent at identifying songs even with a lot of background noise, so they might have some extra processing that does a better job.
But that all assumes you’ve already separated all the recordings into individual tracks…
Too bad DI.FM didn’t publish their track lists. That would have made life easier!
Also there’s AudD, that’s pretty neat for that purpose.
This is awesome!
I love that they position themselves as identifying music to catch “pirates”. Seems only fitting that it can also be used to help pirate music.
Why not just run the recordings through Shazam and note down the track ids from there?
