Hello all! I'm trying to put together a sound lib for people to use for there games and so on, and I'm doing it on itch.io. It's to make some money for me to get stuff that I want and or need as I don't have a job, but also want to use it for myself and at the same time have fun while making a little something.
I was messing around with a little tool from Japan known as beam2002 created in 2006, as that's but a little of the tools blind people can use to do sound design.
I found the software while looking around on the old music software Facebook groups, and as the software had mostly everything accessible I got together to using it. I initially was using it to make instruments for my music software of choice OpenMPT, but found that with a little work you could make more than just instruments with it.
The project started out as vbasicsfx and then I just had gone with the name Sata, mostly because I didn't have anything to come up with lol. The project has about 20 or so sounds in it at the moment and no folders, and some sounds are still left as they are with not much processing done to em aside from the usual editing in GoldWave, but if this goes further I have full intent to work on it more full time. The project is at
https://chiparchiver.itch.io/thesatasfxkit
#Games #games #Audio #audio #Blind #blind #Synthesizer #synthesizer

It sounded cheerful in Kiev, Ukraine in 2025....

"Sound of a street musician playing violin while crossing under Khreschatyk St at Independence Square. Some background sounds. Clacking noise to guide blind persons at end."

AlaskanMariner/freesound.org

#Kiev #Kyiv #Київ #audio #sounds #violin

#Music #Streaming #Quote #Digital #Audio

"I'm opting not to participate in an ecosystem that needs my art to exist, but is structured to pay everyone BUT me.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@monarkie@babyhollywood.social/116267449366066070

Monarkie quotes - @monarkie

New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 12: A-law & µ-law Audio Companding

https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-12-a-law-m-law-audio-companding.html

565 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #algorithms #compression #audio #companding #expansion #aLaw #mulaw #ulaw #µlaw

I'm trying to compare (16-bit 48kHz) source audio to audio compressed down to 8-bit 8kHz linear and a-law companded audio, and I can barely tell the difference, other than some clarity.

I'm guessing my sound card and/or Linux is doing some crazy interpolation, but it kind of ruined that part of my project. 🤣

#Audio #aLaw #companding

Ok, so audiophiles: what format should I use to copy audio from the PC to the phone, for playing over Bluetooth headphones (aptX, I think)? MP3, Vorbis or the newfangled Opus? And what setting?

I see that Opus hard-cuts everything above 20 kHz, but I guess that's fine, right?

#audio #mp3 #vorbis #opus

FxSound is a free, open-source audio enhancer with an equalizer, volume boosting, effects, and audio-processing controls.

Lightweight and customizable, it gives you more control over how your audio sounds.

More details & alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=fxsound

#OpenSource #FOSS #Windows #Audio #Privacy

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FxSound page showing its Windows digital audio program, describing a high-fidelity audio engine with effects for boosting and shaping volume, timbre, and equalization.

Re: Epstein Files.

"US officials vowed to revise redactions after files exposed information that identified survivors of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. A DW investigation found that sensitive information remains online."

For months, Lewis Sanders & our colleague Julia Bayer worked on this, collaborating with @andygiefer & Fraunhofer IDMT.

In case you missed the report on publication:

https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-files-how-victims-remain-exposed-to-identification/a-78137137

#epsteinfiles #audio #investigation

I'm still having a problem with my #audio randomly muting and un-muting in #Ubuntu. If you can help, I'd be grateful! (And boosts are very welcome!)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1569040/audio-randomly-mutes-and-un-mutes

#Poetry #Music #Audio #Clip #UK 48secs

A mix of #Spiritual + #Rap #Truth #HipHop -

The game's dead - This way of life is so disgusting

Same promises of hope - that amount to nothing

#FarmaG - Ya Dead Now [+ #Lyrics]:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zJnCMGnF4AU (no-advert / filtered youtube page)

[ NOT about #guns and #bling ]

#Music #Audio #Clip #UK 41secs
#FarmaG - Ya Dead Now

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zJnCMGnF4AU (no-advert / filtered youtube page)

A mix of #Spiritual + #Rap #Truth #HipHop -

NOT about #guns and #bling

#Audio: So Solid Crew - Ride Wid Us [my shortened edit]
#SoSolid #Crew #SoSolidCrew #Garage #Music #UK #2000 #2002

Any So Solid Crew fan out there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hOhEh4KrBo #music #audio #duduk

@glauber @AceArsenault

http://filsofia.com/share/20260618-AceArsenault.ogg

#Android #ringtone #audio #ogg

@hairylarry Listening inspires me to add surround-sound to my hextille (https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim) , though I would need to actually have surround sound ( 5.1 ) to work with it. It's just squeezing the surrounding x-y plane into six channels: front, -60', +60, -120, +120, bass right? #audio #2D in the past I have found #libsndfile pretty easy to use.

https://dev.to/dattran2346/building-a-youtube-to-podcast-pipeline-with-yt-dlp-ffmpeg-and-backblaze-b2-8nm

#Podcast #Podcasts #Audio #Youtube

https://casti.fyi/youtube-to-podcast.html

#Music #Audio #Video #Podcasts #Youtube

- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.