Author Archives: tom2tec

orcasound ~ Listen To Whales Live

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Orcasound connects your headphones to live hydrophones (underwater microphones), your ears to an ocean of sound. Help us explore and conserve marine life around the globe, starting with studying and saving the Southern Resident killer whales of the Pacific Northwest. As an Orcasound community scientist, you can listen for whales or learn more about marine bioacoustics.

www.orcasound.net

Music Player GO ~ Android Audio Player

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Home of Music Player GO, a minimal yet fully-featured local Android music player aiming at simplicity and performance.

Features:

  • Minimal interface
  • Equalizer
  • Music organised by artist, albums, songs and folders; tabs are organisable
  • Light, dark, automatic themes and accents
  • Pure black theme
  • Queue
  • Sleep timer
  • Audio focus, precise volume and headset management
  • Now playing, embedded covers, search, playback speed, pause on completion, sorting, shuffle, fast-seeking…

github.com/enricocid/Music-Player-GO
f-droid.org/packages/com.iven.musicplayergo
m.apkpure.com/music-player-go/com.iven.musicplayergo
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iven.musicplayergo

mp3menu ~ Linux Console Audio Player

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mp3menu lets you select and play your music files using iselect and AlsaPlayer. Mainly MP3’s, but this will actually play anything AlsaPlayer and libaudio can handle, so WAV and FLAC are covered, as well as a bunch of ancient formats dating back to the 1980s. Sadly, M4A is not.

Requires:
1. AlsaPlayer
2. Iselect
3. Bash – mp3menu is a bash script. It might work with zsh, dash and other shells, or it might not.

sourceforge.net/projects/mp3menu

PGGB•IT! Batch Resampling ~ Crippleware Folder Resampler

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PGGB•IT! is a Windows application for PGGB batch resampling of album folders using the Windows Explorer library as a queue. The companion FOLDER-DROP! allows folders to be included in the library using Explorer’s drag-drop. Generate resampled tracks (in FLAC, WAV or WV format) for use in a compatible music player. PGGB•IT! has a comprehensive settings panel and visually rich console output. Use the standard PGGB Offline (MATLAB) or use PGGB-RT (Intel IPP/AVX) to accelerate resampling to only a minute per average track. A free license of PGGB-RT has no feature limits at up to 2 Million Taps. A full functionality license gets you up to 1 Billion Taps.

PGGB•IT! Batch Resampling

download link works, licensing link does not

Distorder ~ Audio Distortion Analyser

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The Distorder is a psychoacoustic stand-alone or VST application to check audibility of various forms of linear and nonlinear distortions applied to a stereo audio signal, including an ABX tester.

In simpler words, it’s just a soft to be sure if you’re not completely deaf.

Distorder

4Front E-Piano ~ Freeware DX-7 Piano Plugin

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4Front E-Piano is a small single sound instrument without any settings that reproduces a timbre, which is similar to DX-7 type e-piano. It is available as VSTi for Windows, and as an AudioUnit, VSTi and RTAS for Mac (see enclosed readme file).

This instrument is small on memory and CPU usage and was found useful by many users and software developers as a plug&play e-piano module, which does not require any configuration or adjustment.

Though this goes without saying for professional users, I still had a frequent question on how to use this plugin from people, who are not familiar with this technolog. One should note, that to make use of this software a plugin hosting software is necessary, such as Topten Cantabile software. A MIDI keyboard is also preferred, as it is something almost essential to create a computer music these days.

There is also 4Front R-Piano, which replicates a different type of E-Piano.

www.yohng.com/software/epiano