Jetse de VriesThe biggest mystery in science is consciousness. Yet nobody is interested in exploring its origins? No wonder science fiction is going down the drains . . .
https://jetse.substack.com/p/consciousness-as-a-survival-mechanism
Radio_Azureusaudacity v3.7.5
I've gotten a nice present with the recent version of audacity as presented in MX Linux my desktop distro of choice. The latest is version v3.7.7 just wait for the version the current one on in MX Linux is v3.7.5.
This version has new file format based features, which of course means the data files are not backward compatible
features since v3.6
Master effects
Audacity has master effects! Master effects are effects which apply to the entire project at once. More information can be found at Audacity Support: Using master effects & realtime effects.
New compressor / limiter
A new compressor and limiter have been added, replacing the previous versions.
A gain reduction history has been added to these effects when they’re used as a realtime effect.
Factory Presets suitable for a wide range of use cases for these effects have been provided by Vladislav Isaev and Marek Iwaszkiewicz, available via the Presets & Settings button.
New themes
Audacity has new and improved dark and light themes.
switch between themes via Preferences -> Interface.
The theme previously used still is around as Classic theme, and themes even older than that can be optionally installed as custom themes.
Updated instructions on creating custom themes can be found here [link]
Increased performance
Audacity is now quite a bit snappier than before, especially when working on larger projects and on larger screens.
BUGS
Audacity has a long standing bug which is a buffer overflow error when you want to edit projects larger than 100 hours.
What happens is that the cursor loops at exactly 99:59:59 hours back to 00:00:00 hours effectively making editing beyond 100 hours impossible.
work around
What I do is simply record past the rollover, do everything live, meaning make no mistakes and chop the project into pieces if something has to be edited in post production. It's an annoyance but it works
I currently have a project which is aimed at 120 hours. I will keep you posted on the bug
Sources:
https://www.audacityteam.org/faq/
https://plugins.audacityteam.org/
https://github.com/audacity/audacity-manual/releases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TXPUOFH6A
#programming #audio #OpenSource #mathematics #physics #Lineair #Algebra #Audacity #editor #studio #production #vst #Linux #win64 #mac
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On My WalkInstalled #Audacity via snap on Ubuntu. Tried to record audio from a USB input. Couldn't choose the input device - it just wasn't available. Uninstalled the snap, and then sudo apt installed Audacity. Boom, everything just worked.
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!@KaraLG84 @Troggie I have to say that it is ridiculously easy to do Cool Things with computers these days. When I had my tea last night I didn't even have any audio editing software on my machine.
By the time I went to bed I'd not only downloaded & installed #Audacity, but worked out how to use its basic features and got it to spit out a not-too-terrible mash up of a 60s BBC presenter talking about girls and an ancient trance/D&B track I had lying around!
Herr Irrtum! 🔊Btw. , some people ask how long it takes to create one issue of my "Radio Irrtum!" show. All in all over 30 hours, maybe 40. For being one hour on air.
It takes:
- listening (intensely) to like 50 fresh releases (out of around 100 with my Bandcamp filters plus other sources) per month
- selecting about 20 tracks worthy for the show (with noting run time per track and style)
- see how they fit together, reduce again to around 12
- bringing those 12 tracks into the right order (first pop, then hip-hop/beats, then club/bass, then experimental, then punk/handmade, then something calm)
- see what I can buy, see what I can take from my streaming flat rate
- check what's not on Spotify (I use another service), check what's CC
- writing to the artists, trying to get extra Intel directly from them
- doing recherche about the other artists (most I do not know at all)
- writing the manuscript
- check out what I can play in the background
- record live
- trimming the live recording to exactly 57 min, doing crossfading where necessary, cutting bloopers . Audio Levels of the different music tracks are also a challenge. Doing all this while trying to be sensitive regarding the music I unfortunately have to cut because you know... 57 min
- playing out the master, making an EBU R 128 version for the station and an standard MP3 version for my web archive
- listening to this EBU R 128 final mix , sometimes I still find errors at this point, so back to the mixing desk again
- writing some short introduction text for the station and then: upload to the station.
All this using #Audacity (sample editing), #Ardour (mixing), Renoise (Live Jingles /Station IDs), and ffmpeg/lame for file format converting on Arch Linux, Libre Office for manuscript and spreadsheet (track timing/order planning).
That could be it. But then my station does literally nothing to promote my show, so now I go into like 4-6 hours extra time for promotion which is:
Wiring the multilingual teaser for the Fediverse which seriously takes time (what was the fedi handle of that artist again?).
And then creating the SN teaser video for Radio Irrtum! is taking usually like 2 hours of (phun!) work... for those 10s teaser videos :)
And then uploading the show to my archive web server, writing some stuff about it and checking, if the website still works afterwards ;)
Doing all that is work indeed, on top of my day to day job. But it's fun nevertheless! That is what keeps me going since years now... Plus I'm always happy for the positive response I often receive afterwards. Not that I really "need" it, but boy... it feels so nice. Thank you for that!!!
Money wise I do it for free btw, no income plus ;) , more like 20-40 Eur costs for buying music on Bandcamp per show (which is fine).
#radiomakers #radiomachen #radio
It takes:
- listening (intensely) to like 50 fresh releases (out of around 100 with my Bandcamp filters plus other sources) per month
- selecting about 20 tracks worthy for the show (with noting run time per track and style)
- see how they fit together, reduce again to around 12
- bringing those 12 tracks into the right order (first pop, then hip-hop/beats, then club/bass, then experimental, then punk/handmade, then something calm)
- see what I can buy, see what I can take from my streaming flat rate
- check what's not on Spotify (I use another service), check what's CC
- writing to the artists, trying to get extra Intel directly from them
- doing recherche about the other artists (most I do not know at all)
- writing the manuscript
- check out what I can play in the background
- record live
- trimming the live recording to exactly 57 min, doing crossfading where necessary, cutting bloopers . Audio Levels of the different music tracks are also a challenge. Doing all this while trying to be sensitive regarding the music I unfortunately have to cut because you know... 57 min
- playing out the master, making an EBU R 128 version for the station and an standard MP3 version for my web archive
- listening to this EBU R 128 final mix , sometimes I still find errors at this point, so back to the mixing desk again
- writing some short introduction text for the station and then: upload to the station.
All this using #Audacity (sample editing), #Ardour (mixing), Renoise (Live Jingles /Station IDs), and ffmpeg/lame for file format converting on Arch Linux, Libre Office for manuscript and spreadsheet (track timing/order planning).
That could be it. But then my station does literally nothing to promote my show, so now I go into like 4-6 hours extra time for promotion which is:
Wiring the multilingual teaser for the Fediverse which seriously takes time (what was the fedi handle of that artist again?).
And then creating the SN teaser video for Radio Irrtum! is taking usually like 2 hours of (phun!) work... for those 10s teaser videos :)
And then uploading the show to my archive web server, writing some stuff about it and checking, if the website still works afterwards ;)
Doing all that is work indeed, on top of my day to day job. But it's fun nevertheless! That is what keeps me going since years now... Plus I'm always happy for the positive response I often receive afterwards. Not that I really "need" it, but boy... it feels so nice. Thank you for that!!!
Money wise I do it for free btw, no income plus ;) , more like 20-40 Eur costs for buying music on Bandcamp per show (which is fine).
#radiomakers #radiomachen #radio
pinche_compincheProbando los límites de mi instancia, hoy vídeo gordo.
La parte visual cortesía de https://www.pexels.com/@stefwithanf-1955763/ y el ruido hecho con #vcvrack y #audacity
Chris Carlier | Short SongsFuck Up Your Images With Data Bending
https://sagesanctum.bearblog.dev/fuck-up-your-images-with-databending/
Terminal TiltEarly 2026 #FOSS Tools I use:
OS (Desktop, Mobile, and Server)
- #Debian 13 w/Cinnamon DE
- #Proxmox 9.1
- @homeassistant
- @GrapheneOS
Email
- @protonprivacy
Notes and Office
- @zettlr
- @libreoffice
Android Application "Stores"
- Obtainium
Browsers
- @librewolf
- @torproject
- #UnGoogledChromium
- #IronFox
VPN
- @mullvadnet
Password and TOTP Manager
- @protonprivacy #ProtonPass
Social
- @Mastodon
- @element
- #Stoat
- @clerotri
Media Playback
- #Qmmp
- #MPV
- #Haruna
Media Creation
- @GIMP
- @OBSProject
- @kdenlive
- #Audacity
Gaming
- @heroiclauncher
Other Utilities
- #Alacritty
- #Easy Effects
- #VIA
- #MusicBrainz Picard
Maybe I should also post a list of what is on my #homelab
#FOSSStack #OpenSource #Applications #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Privacy #HomeAssistant #VPN #Mullvad #Proton #Ecosia #MetaGer #Mastodon #Matrix #Element #Discord
Is there a way to have multiple applications use the same microphone and headphones at the same time? #sound #microphone #headphones #zoommeeting #audacity
Is there a way to have multiple applications use the same microphone and headphones at the same time?
I'm a voice actor and I recently had a session with a game developer who wanted to do some live direction. We jumped into a Zoom call and I discovered the following: Zoom was using my webcam micro...