Combine Dragnet and Cops and you’ll have The Roving Mike. For more than a year beginning in March 1951, Zindler prowled the back streets of Houston chasing crime scenes. Suspects, victims, witnesses and police officers all make up the cast of characters in this drama, though there’s nothing scripted about it.
SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.
The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde.
With RaopX, however, you're no longer limited to iTunes; you can play any system audio through AirTunes. [Free software, like AirFoil, only I can spend $25 on beer]
he use of USB Audio Devices on the Left-Hand USB Port Is Not Recommended. This applies to ALL MacBook Pro Models (Core Duo and Core 2 Duo). • The 15" MacBook Pro models have 1 USB port on the left side, and one USB port on the right side. • The 17" MacBook Pro models have 2 USB ports on the left side, and one USB port on the right side.
Quick tangent: for all those who bemoan the use of this effect, remember that when people started using distorted guitars there were plenty who felt that it was a misuse of the technology and only used by those who couldn't really play. Those are the two main complaints I hear about Autotune. [Never has a single sentence made me more interested in exploring Auto-Tune DSPs]
Take our unscientific hearing test: listen to each of these tones and let us know at where your hearing cuts out
The Acoustic Monitoring Project of the VENTS Program has performed continuous monitoring of ocean noise since August, 1991 using the U.S. Navy SOund SUrveillance System (SOSUS) network and autonomous underwater hydrophones.
Most naive listeners hear this as a set of simultaneous whistles, or science fiction sounds. However, for listeners that have previously heard this sound: [...] Listening to the sine-wave speech sound again produces a very different percept of a fully intelligible spoken sentence.
SoundManager 2 lets web developers load, play and control sounds via Javascript.
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I listen to Marketplace and drive around by myself way too much
In fact, I've come to believe that crappy technology -- lousy studios, horrible playback devices -- is a boon to pop music.
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Oh yeah, one more thing--in response to popular request, you can now download this entire resource as a PDF file. I can't promise that the PDF will be updated as often as the HTML, but I'll try.