Posts tagged "Software"

Unfucking audio with "AI"

Thursday February 20 2025, 1434 words — Using machine learning to unfuck broken audio recordings.
Filed under: Software, Machine Learning, Audio

Ok, I fucking hate “AI” and the corporate horse it rode in on. Machine learning though? I guess that’s kinda useful?!

I’ve been helping out my friends at KKTO with their project Minute/Year for almost a decade now and a while ago we had run into a peculiar problem. I spent the last few days finally cleaning up the mess it caused and I thought I’d write up what I’ve done cause I’m pretty proud of the result.

In 2023 an audio interface had failed and corrupted a whole bunch of our daily recordings in a subtle yet annoying way. It took us a few days to realize what had happened at which point we power cycled the audio interface and everything went back to normal but it left us with a bunch of corrupted recordings that needed to be fixed.

Raspberry Pi Media Player

Thursday October 10 2024, 1832 words — Building a minimal Raspberry Pi based audio and video player for exhibitions.
Filed under: Software

A pretty common task for exhibitions I support is to have some kind of tiny unobtrusive media player box that can play a bunch of video or audio files on loop for anything from a small listening station with some headphones to a 4k projector showing a feature video.

Since this has come up again and again for me and I’ve had multiple different versions of a setup like this for which I’ve somehow managed to loose all the source files I’ve decided to write this blog post in the hopes that when I have to do this again I’ll actually remember how I did it this time.

I’m not gonna go into every detail here, like how to set up systemd services, but if you want to take a closer look all the scripts and files are available for download at the end of the article.