
Thus, it only took us 50-odd years to write the reverse-compiler..

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xtagon
I wonder if this can segregate vocals from instrumentals in a mix? That would
be great for mashups.

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bscphil
Incidentally, due to the way a lot of stereo tracks are mixed, it's often
possible to mostly remove the vocal track from a song. I'm more curious if
this algorithm could perform the reverse task - playing the vocals only. My
intuition is that the results would be poor because of the wide human vocal
range and the fact that words need to be discernible, not just notes. But I
would love to be proven wrong here.

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StavrosK
If you can remove the vocals from a piece, you can then subtract that from the
original to get just the vocals.

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nawgszy
Well that's not quite true. The point is, I believe, that vocals are generally
put right in the center of the sound-stage, so they play equally in the left
and right channels. Thus right - left is most of the rest of the song, but the
vocals cancelled each other out.

However, the right - left mix isn't exactly the song minus the vocals, it's an
odd off-version, so subtracting that from the original song will leave mostly
the vocals but with artifacts from the difference between the song truly
without vocals and the right - left mix's interpretation thereof

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StavrosK
Yes, certainly. My point is that if you have "mostly no vocals" you can
subtract that from the left + right mix to get "mostly the vocals". It won't
be exactly right, sure.

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nawgszy
Fair enough!

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hrayr
Interesting, I was wondering what to do with my audiblepixel.com domain.




Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users - notlukesky
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-forcibly-install-bing-search-extension-in-chrome-for-office-365-proplus-users/
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that_lurker
Soon there will be an article with a title of something like "Google blocks
Microsofs addon"





Grok cassandra's data model - flazzarino
http://flazz.me/grok-cassandras-datamodel

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jdefarge