For people who still post audio to wordpress blogs for #podcasting Are we still using #mp3? I know spotify uses #ogg and I wonder if podcasts do now too?
I'm still publishing in exactly the way I did 18 years ago, so surely this isn't still correct?
I have 9 minutes to go downloading the 12G #torrent of tonight's #monsterdon, and 5 minutes until it starts. I'll start with the #ogg version until the #mp4 version finishes downloading.
So, I've been recording the audio of my binaural dummy head when I stream into opus format, because it's both good quality and requires much less storage space than typical mp3 (a 8 hours long stream is only 230 MB or so at 64 kbps).
Liquidsoap which is the software I use does the proper thing, and actually encodes each song, or in this case, each stream of audio in its own stream of opus data, so when I move around and decide to alternate between streaming my phone and streaming the audio from the dummy head, then end with terminating liquidsoap, it goes like this:
header, metadata, audio data, new stream metadata, audio data, metadata, audio data, end of stream
It took 6 years for ffmpeg to handle this properly. That is, before, ffmpeg would choke to death when seeing an opus file encoded this way, because it didn't expect it. #audio#codec#ogg#opus
“forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected… [disclosing sources leaves us] open to legal challenges.”
Looking forward to new defences in court saying if they’re forced to explain exactly where they got this car boot stall full of nappies and DVDs from, they’ll be subject to “legal challenges”
@sil Well, my #mp3 and #ogg tracks are also just "trained" on uncompressed audio data -- they are a totally different thing -- just like #ai is different from its training material. cough
I seem to remember playing the mac client this previous decade and thinking it looked pretty neat, but I don't remember clearly. I've been Linux-only since 2019.
I'm kinda sad that way more people know "Ogg" from the media container format (which is great), than for the #Netrek move it was named after.