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HOWTO: PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support - Ubuntu Forums
looks very useful - I look forward to trying it if I come aross glitches in Karmic
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Add Sticky NoteThe developers have done an excellent job with PulseAudio integration and configuration in this release - enough to make this guide virtually obsolete.
- I wish I had known about this guide before today. I may not have had so much trouble with silence from Squeak, or volume controls resetting to zero. - on 2009-10-30
Re: The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal - Lennart Poettering April 2009
For those sound cards where the great leveller of PulseAudio doesn't work correctly (perhaps because of card-specific bugs in ALSA drivers that have never been fixed), then fire up gnome-alsamixer or alsamixer, and twiddle all the knobs.
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I have reports from PA working OK in tiny ARM based
routers as well as on older ISA cards. PA supports older/more limited
hw just fine. Maybe some codepaths are not perfectly optimized for
them but that's not a systematic problem. Always happy to take patches!
Bug #315971 in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): “'Front' and 'PCM' mixer control elements must be unmuted by default on HDA platforms”
eww - sounds like trouble I have with the master slider
SQUEAK User Group Birds of a Feather
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John Maloney: I want to say a few words about sound support.
It has always been a strong interest of mine. When I was a grad. student
I took a couple of semesters off and went to Carnegie Mellon to work for
free. Now I am getting paid for it. I first got basic access to sound output
driver, then tried to synthesize output in Squeak. Later on I wrote a midi
file parser. There are tons of files on the Web and you can get all these
free music. Here is a demo of a midi file with frequency modulation. (Cool
demo that sounds like switched on Bach). Speed can be adjusted. Wrote
a piano roll view. (Applause then demo starts to falter ...)
FM Tutorial
Interesting and straightforward maths about making timbres with electronics - worth exploring
Speeding up Netcasts on Linux with SoX | Ghodmode.com
The technical solution to my earlier bookmark. Use at risk to your sanity!
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The way I prefer to do it uses Sound eXchange, or SoX, to manipulate the tempo of the audio file so that it's faster, but the voices still sound normal.
Faster... for your listening pleasure | Ghodmode.com
An entertaining (but quite possibly useful) suggestion here. I tend to rewind podcasts because I miss things, but this could paradoxically help. I think speeding up may be a mistake for "In Our Time" or "This American Life", and if a podcast is so boring that you want to speed it up, perhaps you should unsubscribe from it. No technical details here, just an idea.
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Even though the sound of the sped up voices was terrible, I found that I enjoyed the podcasts more and listened with greater interest.
YouTube - Zero Budget Dubbing Studio - 2006
Funny but probably useful application of fruit trays and foam
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Too many zero budget films suffer from poor sound quality, so here's a way to dub your films on the cheap with a studio-in-a-box!
ccMixter
"Video makers, podcasters and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license."
freesound :: home page
Sound sample library
3 Way Stereo Audio Phono Switch Box > Maplin
Three RCA stereo pairs - a bit less ugly to have in reach, but 19.99 this time
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With 3 select switches, this unit is perfect for switching between multiple audio sources such as MP3 Players, CD and Games.
Four-Way Stereo Audio Switch Box > Maplin
Also 9.99 but 4-way this time. Who has 4 audio sources? (maybe a digital music player / ipod dock?)
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A 4-way switch box connecting three stereo pairs of input phono sockets to one stereo output pair for connection to a stereo amplifier. The three phono inputs are labelled 1: CD/MD ; 2: TAPE/DAT/DCC ; 3: VIDEO SOUND . In addition an AUX input (number 4) is provided as a stereo 3.5mm jack socket.
RCA Audio Selector Switch > Maplin
9.99 - a bit ugly - but means you don't have to unplug the DVD audio to get the laptop audio into the amp
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Uses RCA phono sockets as its inputs
BBC - Radio Labs - Under the iPlayer hood for radio
great workaround in the comments - thanks
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Please can you put a button on all of the iPlayer Radio pages to open in Standalone RealPlayer?
I know there is a workaround by going to the non-graphical page,
Recording streaming audio with MPlayer | GRIMTHING.COM
This looks like an extremely useful recipe for internet radio stations that don't have a 'listen again' feature; or for automatically loading your personal music player with radio shows.
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This will create a wav file in the /tmp directory (make sure it’s writable). Whenever you tell MPlayer to quit recording (ctrl-c or killall -9 mplayer), oggenc converts the wav file, deposits an ogg file in your home directory named FlockofSeagulls_May20.ogg and, then the rm command removes mystream.wav to save disk space. ...The stream I want to record is already in the format I want
This simplifies things a bit. If the stream you want to record is already in the format you want to use, you can use the -dumpstream flag instead.
Multiformat stream recorders: How to download/save/capture/record streaming Windows Media, Real Media, Real Video, Real Audio, Quick Time Videos (.ASF, .WMV, .WMA, .ASX, .WMX, .WVX, .WAX, .RA, .RM, .RAM, .SMIL, .RMVB, .MP3) [RTSP, HTTP or MMS protocols]
sounds useful
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To record streaming media get the URL of a stream and use command line strings like in the following examples:
mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtsp://somehost.com/somedirectory/somefile.rm
[MPlayer-users] .rm to wav/mp3 transcoding
no answer to this one either, but they got it working with at least one file
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for example: ../mplayer/main/mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc null tmo.rm gives me an audiodump.wav file
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