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The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

If you’re into #audio #plugins: Universal Audio is giving away a free plugin right now – options include many classics like the LA-2A, 1176, Pultec EQ, Galaxy Tape Echo, the (great-sounding!) PolyMAX Synth, and more. 🎛️✨

Black Friday Freebie

If you are setting new speakers or headphones this morning, let me introduce you to https://www.audiocheck.net/

Free Online Audio Tests, Test Tones and Tone Generators
Tests your audio equipment, speakers, room acoustics and hearing. Audio signals and test tones playable online. High resolution sound test files available for free download.

Meta SAM 3 und 3D als offene Modelle verfügbar
SAM segmentiert Objekte auf Bildern und in Videos, sogar Audio ist per Prompt separierbar: Das KI-Modell ist frei verfügbar.
https://www.heise.de/…

A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats

sonify: Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound
Sonification (or audification) is the process of representing data by sounds in the audible range. This package provides the R function sonify() that transforms univariate data, sampled at regular or irregular intervals, into a continuous sound with time-varying frequency. The ups and downs in frequency represent the ups and downs in the data. Sonify provides a substitute for R's plot function to simplify data analysis for the visually impaired.

Four trials is not enough: The amount of prior audio–visual exposure determines the strength of audio–tactile crossmodal correspondence early in development https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/9/1184

I don't need to buy gasoline very often thanks the the PHEV, but I did ned to fill up last night. It was an Esso station where in addition to showing me ads on the pump screen, the tiny speaker started squawking audio for the ads. This happened to me previously on a road trip. The other brand stations—around here at least—don't play obnoxious audio ads.
No one is measuring my displeasure here. There's no cancel/mute button.
I'm done with Esso. I'll go out of m…

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A Tribe Called Quest:
🎵 Go Ahead In the Rain
#ATribeCalledQuest
https://shearobbyn998.bandcamp.com/track/audiobook-pdf-go-ahead-in-the-rain-notes-to-a-tribe-called-quest-american-music-full-download
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vgd3img7iEE2LQFAU0N2b
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So, who likes wild free jazz. I got one for ya. Ahmed Quartet put out [Sama'a] (Audition)' in November and I've been digging it (they do versions of Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s music, in this case his 'Jazz Sahara', which is fifties jazz mixed with North African folk music): https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
A Tribe Called Quest:
🎵 Go Ahead In the Rain
#ATribeCalledQuest
https://shearobbyn998.bandcamp.com/track/audiobook-pdf-go-ahead-in-the-rain-notes-to-a-tribe-called-quest-american-music-full-download
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vgd3img7iEE2LQFAU0N2b