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What do you think is the difference between Audacity and Tenacity?

#Linux #Audacity #Tenacity #audio #editor

The Audacity logo and the Tenacity logo on a white background.
May 03, 2025, 17:05 · · 0 · 0
Mix Mistress Alice💄

"Digital recordings are perishable in their own right —far less stable, in fact, than recordings on magnetic tape. A damaged analog tape is not necessarily a lost cause: An engineer may be able to perform restoration work and get the recording to play. But when a digital medium is compromised, it is most likely gone. Many masters from recent decades are kept on hard drives, notoriously fragile mechanisms that may not function after sitting for years in a vault. Today, labels increasingly rely on digital-tape formats like LTO. But LTO is backward compatible for just two generations. Labels must either continually retransfer their archives or maintain outdated playback equipment.
All these problems are exacerbated by the structure of the music business, in which hundreds of labels have been consolidated into three huge ones, which in turn have been absorbed by global conglomerates. The necessity of safeguarding a sound-recording heritage may appear abstract to executives at a distant parent company, who may simply see an expense on a balance sheet marked “Storage.” "—Jody Rosen

nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazin

#music #master_tapes #reel_to_reel #vault #masters_vault #fire #archives #tape_libraries #UMG #labels #catastrophe #loss #music_history #archival #audio #audio_master #masters #libraries #LTO

May 03, 2025, 08:47 · · 0 · 0
Mix Mistress Alice💄

"UMG maintained additional tape libraries across the United States and around the world. But the label’s Vault Operations department was managed from the backlot, and the archive there housed some of UMG’s most prized material. There were recordings from dozens of record companies that had been absorbed by Universal over the years, including several of the most important labels of all time. The vault housed tape masters for Decca, the pop, jazz and classical powerhouse; it housed master tapes for the storied blues label Chess; it housed masters for Impulse, the groundbreaking jazz label. The vault held masters for the MCA, ABC, A&M, Geffen and Interscope labels. And it held masters for a host of smaller subsidiary labels. Nearly all of these masters — in some cases, the complete discographies of entire record labels — were wiped out in the fire."—Jody Rosen

The Day the Music Burned >

nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazin

#music #history #master_tapes #reel_to_reel #reels #vault #masters_vault #fire #archives #tape_libraries #UMG #Unviversal #labels #catastrophe #music_history #loss #archiving #audio #audio_master #masters #libraries

The Day the Music Burned

It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music…

The New York Times
May 03, 2025, 07:08 · · 0 · 0
TOV

Tenacity is a fork of the open source audio editor Audacity. The key differences are that Tenacity removed error reporting and update checking. Tenacity also supports Matroska import/export, including importing Matroska tracks as labels.

Tenacity development is focused on implementing features and fixes requested by users.

Audacity
audacityteam.org/

Tenacity
tenacityaudio.org/

#audacity #Tenacity #audio #editor

The Audacity logo next to the Tenacity logo on a white background.
May 03, 2025, 05:52 · · · 1 · 0
Eric 🇨🇦

Did a few prelim bass tracks down in the basement tonight. Getting a feel for the bass line on the new song. I always start bass lines way too complicated, then go, ah crap, and go back to the basics. Usually takes 2 test tracks for me to realize it. Also tonight I added (copy/paste) 16 bars of the rhythm guitar tracks mid-song for a break in the vocals just before final verse. Then of course I had to shuffle the vocal track section along to sync up. It extended the song length from 3:08 to about 3:22. Now at least I know the song length to register it with SOCAN. Gotta come up with a title now. That’s always an interesting thing. Web search a title and it’s quite daunting to come up with a song title that’s not already used. I’ve found a couple possibilities from my lyrics that’ll work. Apparently, 5 words or less is good for titles. H’mmm. #music #recording #songwriting #audio

May 03, 2025, 05:32 · · 0 · 0
Bytes Europe

Tory Whanau believes politics has become a lot more ‘toxic’ especially for wāhine Māori byteseu.com/976378/ #Audio #CurrentAffairs #NewZealand #News #Podcasts #PublicRadio #RadioNewZealand #RNZ

Wellington mayor Tory Whanau speaking to Mihingarangi Forbes on RNZ's Saturday Morning.
May 03, 2025, 00:42 · · 1 · 0
C.

This is either "AI" #slop or someone who really, really doesn't understand electricity and audio signals. It's talking about a standard 3.5mm headphone/mic jack on consumer audio devices, and says this when talking about straight vs. right-angle plugs:

> Straight connectors provide a direct connection between the audio source
> and the output device, minimizing signal loss and interference. This results
> in a cleaner and more accurate representation of the audio, allowing you to
> fully appreciate the nuances of the sound.
>
> In contrast, right-angle connectors can sometimes cause signal degradation
> due to the sharp angle at which the connector is bent. This can lead to audio
> distortion or loss, impacting the overall quality of the sound output.

If this gentleman has discovered a population of electrons that can tell when they've made a 90-degree turn inside a conductor, I think a #Nobel physics prize is in store for him.

#AI #electricity #audio #audiophool #witchcraft #voodoo #misinformation #magic #CargoCult #headphones #mic #connector #plug

May 02, 2025, 19:08 · · 0 · 0
Ercanbrack

Please boost!

I have a question for all of you Linux experts out there :

Is there a relationship between a tickless kernel (CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL in the kernel config), & the RTC interrupt frequency, or do they do two different things?

In other words, if your kernel is running tickless, is there any audio latency benefit from increasing the highest requested RTC interrupt frequency—or, is it no longer relevant?

#Linux #LinuxAudio #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Arch #Kernel #Audio

May 02, 2025, 16:28 · · · 1 · 0
slowforward

grazie a tutti i sostenitori di slowforward/differx !

grazie a tutti i sostenitori di slowforward/differx, che attraverso ko-fi e paypal in questi giorni hanno offerto e stanno offrendo contributi fondamentali per la continuazione di un lavoro quotidiano che compie nel 2025 ventidue anni.

il progetto è quello di non smettere mai di informare, e condividere materiali, testi, prose, postpoesia, file video e audio di incontri, link, aggiornamenti, notizie, podcast, pdf, immagini,  ricostruzioni storiche, articoli e saggi negli ambiti consueti delle scritture di ricerca, dell’arte e musica contemporanea, della scrittura asemica, della ‘web weirdness’, dell’anarchismo e del Movimento, dei movimenti, del sostegno alla causa palestinese, oltre che di tutte quelle zone meno esplorate della rete, estranee al mainstream e contrarie a quei fascismi e razzismi reali e metaforici che questo tratto di storia sembra moltiplicare.
differx è un demoltiplicatore, slowforward accumula vie di fuga, battaglia e contrattacco.
il terreno dei linguaggi, del linguistico, per sua natura è e sempre sarà eracliteo, imprendibile e – parallelamente – presente e già altrove. 

chi di tanto in tanto vorrà unirsi all’attività, è sempre invitato a spedire e proporre materiali e idee, o semplicemente a contribuire con un caffè alla veglia interminabile del sito e di tutti i suoi canali e addenda.

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https://t.me/slowforward
https://tinyurl.com/slowchannel
https://mastodon.uno/@differx
https://tinyurl.com/differxx
https://linktr.ee/differx

slowforward – pur con tutte le sue imperfezioni e contraddizioni – sollecita tutti a evitare, per quanto possibile, i canali generalisti (soprattutto twitter, threads e facebook) e ad andare semmai alla fonte dei materiali, privilegiando piattaforme di condivisione presenti nel #fediverso o che comunque limitano le separazioni interne alle comunità, ed evitano o proprio cancellano del tutto l’invadenza pubblicitaria, lo #shadowbanning , la #censura , gli algoritmi demenziali, le violazioni della (o i comportamenti leggeri in tema di) #privacy

#111 #addenda #aggiornamenti #anarchia #anarchismo #antirazzismo #art #arte #arteContemporanea #audio #caffè #canaliDiDifferx #contribuire #contribuireASlowforward #contribute #differx #fileVideo #Gaza #idee #immagini #koFi #link #mainstream #materiali #movimenti #Movimento #musicaContemporanea #musicaSperimentale #notizie #offrimiUnCaffè #Palestina #paypal #paypalMe #pdf #podcast #politica #slowforward #sostenere #sostenereSlowforward #sostieniSlowforward #testi #vegliaInterminabile #webWeirdness

May 02, 2025, 06:31 · · 2 · 0

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