[HN Gopher] Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
Author : matthewfelgate
Score : 59 points
Date : 2022-12-14 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rahidz wrote:
| Wish there was something like this (or like Sponsorblock) for
| podcasts. Would make them actually listenable to.
| neilv wrote:
| A remaining problem is that you're still listening to whatever
| they play on the radio.
| Analemma_ wrote:
| They're few and far between, but a good radio station make this
| a non-issue. KEXP in Seattle is phenomenal; I listed to them
| just as much as Spotify or my local collection.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Can't you just use a playlist on some service or your own local
| MP3 collection or something like that then?
| jakear wrote:
| Local college radio and other small stations tend to be great.
| Sure the music won't be custom tailored by either "what past-
| you liked" or neural networks expressly designed to increase
| Sweden's internal revenue, but that doesn't mean you can't
| enjoy the experience of listening all the same. As an extra
| plus you're likely to get relevant information on local news
| and events too.
|
| Long live public broadcasting!
| smm11 wrote:
| I avoid this by not listening to OTA radio. Nothing to install,
| nothing to configure.
| ArmandTanzarian wrote:
| A good strategy, but this product is for someone seeking a
| different experience than you.
| ilyt wrote:
| It relies on radio changing metadata when ad plays or DJ
| talks, do that even happen often ?
| ArmandTanzarian wrote:
| Not sure about rest of world, but in the US adverts often
| play at much louder volumes than the content being enjoyed.
| aatd86 wrote:
| Another way would be to simply throw a limiter somewhere in the
| chain.
| boredemployee wrote:
| I wish that script to be used in parties and festivals.
| jtvjan wrote:
| On our radio, the "Now Playing" is always frustratingly far
| behind. It's amazing that yours is real-time enough that you can
| adjust the volume based on it.
| floatrock wrote:
| I want something like this for youtube or other streaming
| services
| unixhero wrote:
| It exists
|
| Revanced on Android
|
| Stube on AndroidTV
| broodbucket wrote:
| So there _is_ an equivalent for Android TV! Stube =
| SmartTubeNext?
| yummypaint wrote:
| Firefox with ublock origin blocks youtube ads seamlessly. I've
| barely seen an ad in years
| Benlights wrote:
| It blocks in video creator ads not Youtube ads
| ravenstine wrote:
| Maybe you have it the other way around? I've been using
| uBlock Origin on YouTube for years and never see a single
| dynamic ad.
| rtepopbe wrote:
| I think they were talking about SponsorBlock, which was
| mentioned on another same-level comment. Probably just
| didn't realize this was a separate sub-chain (or whatever
| you call it) without that context.
| scrapcode wrote:
| Along with uBlock, there's nice extension called SponsorBlock
| that uses crowdsourcing to block in-content ad placements.
| edit: Did not notice this was already mentioned. Sorry!
| [deleted]
| manishsharan wrote:
| I have always wrestled with the ethics of adblocking YouTube.
| If am subscribed to a channel, that means the content in that
| channel has value for me. And it is only fair that I provide
| some value to the content creators in return. Otherwise it is
| theft.
|
| Anyways this is my reasoning. Hence as much as I find ads to
| be annoying, I put up with them. I am considering cancelling
| my Spotify subscription and using the saving to subscribe to
| YouTube. I haven't done it yet.
| dpcx wrote:
| Matthias Wandel said it pretty plainly in
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMb4yc3t3M
|
| > And ads on YouTube seem to be getting a bit too much
| lately. Just use an ad blocker, don't feel guilty about it.
| Enough is enough!
|
| (this taken from the description of the video)
| justin_oaks wrote:
| It makes sense to cancel Spotify in favor of YouTube
| Premium since YouTube Premium includes both YouTube Music
| (music streaming service, like Spotify) and ad-free YouTube
| videos. It looks like YouTube Premium is a little more
| expensive than Spotify ($12 vs $10).
| rtepopbe wrote:
| Adblocking seems very distinct from theft to me, but
| thankfully even that is irrelevant with SponsorBlock. Those
| sponsorships don't pay via impression and only the channel
| themselves could really try to track impressions anyway.
|
| You're free to use SponsorBlock and save so much time,
| brain space, and frustration, without worrying about
| altering the creator's pay at all. I don't see why you
| wouldn't do it.
|
| At this point I've got actual emotional/stress responses to
| segues in videos. It's ridiculous. At least SponsorBlock
| saves me a good number of ads and gives me a way to do
| _something_ when an ad spot isn 't skipped.
| nickthegreek wrote:
| I subscribe to YouTube premium and one of the great
| features is that creators get significantly more money from
| my views than from an adsupported user. So every monetized
| video that I view helps them out a bit more. That along
| with ad free viewing and YouTube music make it the best
| value of anything I subscribe too and would be my last
| service to cancel.
| wahnfrieden wrote:
| It is not theft
| polishdude20 wrote:
| At what point is it considered theft though? If I refuse to
| look at an ad when it plays is it theft? If I get
| distracted and not watch it for half the time it runs, is
| it half theft? If I watch the whole thing and don't
| actually click through, is that theft?
|
| There's no contract that I've signed that demands my full
| attention is on the ad. So, half my attention is ok? A
| quarter? How about none?
|
| Is it enough that I know so and so company is behind the
| specific ad without me knowing what the ad is about but
| just realizing it's to sell me their product? Is that
| enough?
|
| What IS the fair transaction in the case?
| dageshi wrote:
| At whatever point the content creator fails to get paid
| for the ad being "viewed" I would assume.
| dtech wrote:
| You can subscribe to Youtube Premium to remove ads, but not
| in-video sponsorships of course. A lot of prominent
| creators have banded together in the Nebula subscription
| service [1], where they put their video without ads and
| sponsorships.
|
| [1] https://nebula.tv/
| nickthegreek wrote:
| And you can get a great deal on nebula+curiosity stream
| too. I think I pay like under $20 for the year for both
| solely to watch Patrick H Willems and Thomas Flight
| videos and support a YouTube alternative.
| melony wrote:
| Sponsorblock
|
| https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
| matthewfelgate wrote:
| A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio
| advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up
| when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the
| Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
| eastbound wrote:
| It's funny because broadcasters have notmalized ads at +6 dB
| compared to the rest of the radio.
|
| It's actually measured in LUFS, and it's normalized worldwide
| for radio, podcasts, TV, movies, and commercials, so that
| commercials are louder.
|
| LUFS measures the _loudness_ , which is not exactly the same as
| volume - it makes quiet moments louder so that everything can
| be heard while the car engine runs, but the drawback is limited
| dynamic range, which is not important on podcasts but a little
| more important in music.
|
| It's double-funny that we can normalize LUFS and we're still
| stuck with movie dialogs inaudible and the sound effects earth-
| shattering. I wish VLC had a better loudness processor, I don't
| succeed to configure it to keep the whole movie at the same
| volume, whether they're speaking or using automatic guns.
| haimez wrote:
| > I wish VLC had a better loudness processor, I don't succeed
| to configure it to keep the whole movie at the same volume,
| whether they're speaking or using automatic guns.
|
| Probably won't help you if you're using VLC, but most of the
| streaming services now have multiple audio tracks in the same
| menu that would switch to another language called "<Language>
| - Reduce loud noises" which is pretty much that. I just find
| it inconvenient as an apartment dweller that the default is
| to blast the volume during any action sequence.
| subpar wrote:
| Here's a great post from a post-production audio mixer
| explaining the many convoluted steps that go into delivering
| a final mix with correct loudness specs to end users. tldr,
| there's a lot of room for error.
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioPost/comments/y2m1u0/comment/i.
| ..
| progmetaldev wrote:
| This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on
| Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I
| like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up
| when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio
| commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or
| I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
| midasuni wrote:
| You could just pay for premium
| xnx wrote:
| This is the type of next-level ad blocking we need more of!
| stabbles wrote:
| Funnily enough the ads on this page take as much space as the
| blog post
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