#streaming audio

[miaqc1]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Code Lyoko, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Chat Noir Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: None in this story, None - Relationship Characters: Aelita Schaeffer, Plagg [Miraculous Ladybug] Additional Tags: Creation, Mystery, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Virtual World, Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Some Plot, Cat, Cats, Cats - Freeform, Wordcount: 0-100, POV Third Person Limited, 1 Sentence Fiction, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Content, Cover Art, Podfic & Podficced Works, Read by the Author, Digital Artwork, Art, Fanart, Embedded Fanart, Embedded Images, Commissioned Art, Autistic Author Summary:

The podfic of "Little flying black cat"! By Mia AKA MiaQc. French Canadian voice, ESL. One-sentence fiction about Aelita and a little flying black cat.

[discobar]

FvgTech di Gabriele Gobbo sbarca su Amazon Music

Il programma televisivo FvgTech, condotto da Gabriele Gobbo e dedicato alla tecnologia e alla cultura digitale, amplia la sua presenza approdando su Amazon Music. Una novità che porta questo format, già noto nel panorama televisivo italiano, su una delle piattaforme di streaming musicale e podcasting più diffuse al mondo. FvgTech si è affermato come uno spazio di divulgazione dedicato a temi…

[lignanolanotte]

FvgTech di Gabriele Gobbo sbarca su Amazon Music

Il programma televisivo FvgTech, condotto da Gabriele Gobbo e dedicato alla tecnologia e alla cultura digitale, amplia la sua presenza approdando su Amazon Music. Una novità che porta questo format, già noto nel panorama televisivo italiano, su una delle piattaforme di streaming musicale e podcasting più diffuse al mondo. FvgTech si è affermato come uno spazio di divulgazione dedicato a temi…

[33bowls]

MQA DIY

This is about MQA DIY for all of you cultural creatives.

Posting here, as 33 has not participated much in online audio forums since the early ‘00s, as the atmosphere, even before the advent of MQA haters, trolls, and sock puppets, was a toxic stew of mis-information, to put it lightly. They are just the latest incarnation of that.

First off, except for observational knowledge or entertainment value, it is assumed that any DIY endeavors are predicated with a certain level of tech smarts, starting with which end of the soldering iron to grab.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_oCAjAXR

This USB card “only” does MQA unfolding, with appropriate green and blue LED indicators to authenticate, as in verify and indicate MQA and MQA Studio data streams. Unlike Golden Showers “this is not a review” Oatmeal, 33 does not have a terabyte of pirated files, so was not able to verify unfolding beyond the first, but with 33’s own master files, have verified first unfold does indeed unfold. Do you believe in radical honesty and transparency on a first data?

Two other important features of this USB card: it also reclocks the bits at the output, for minimal correlated jitter, and has the option of internal cleaner 5volt power independent of the USB buss.

The vast majority of MQA music files only need first unfold, as the masters of them were likely 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz, in part since the plethora of A/D equipment supports those sample rates, and, thanks to the grift that keeps on giving from Gates, Allen, and Ballmer, windows does not support driverless USB faster than that data rate. Wideband plug and play is mac territory, that windoze has yet to catch up with.

As to where to send these lovely bits, an obvious choice is the ESS 9039M, with internal MQA rendering. Be aware that ESS chips, being a unique H bridge output topology, are very sensitive to power supply issues. Any perturbations, including thermal tails in the power supply regulators will contaminate the audio signal. I suggest adding a PNP current boost to any regulator, which lowers output impedance and buffers the regulator from signal variations, which do not fully cancel out in the ESS chip’s balanced mode. There is still intermodulation induced by power supply variations. If you are not an OCD left brain measurement only kind of dude, I suggest that running the ESS chip in voltage out mode, and buffering that voltage signal with whatever buffer you prefer, even tubes, which will sound better than the usual monolithic opamp virtual ground current to voltage stage, but won’t measure, at lest in steady state conditions, as well. But, you know, sonics.

Other dac chip options are R2Rs from BB and AD, and even Philps. There are more than a few PCM 58, PCM63, TDA1541 still available. I mention these because, they have have a pure unipolar current output available, which lends itself to a passive I/V scheme, with a cascode buffer or just bipolar transistor holding the output close to ground, and the passive scheme of your choice. Fets, tubes, whatever you prefer. You know, sonics.

With these or other R2R chips, you can go for the ever popular NOS non oversampled mode. All other factors being equal which they rarely are, NOS tends to sound solid, but a bit flat dimensionally. If you prefer filtered, I suggest the BB DF1706 in slow rolloff 4x mode. This is a minimum phase filter with very little time dispersion, and in 4x mode, allows for first and second unfolded MQA, which results in 8fs and 16fs respectively. The BB 58 and 63 chips can handle that, the Philips 1541 should be NOS only, can only handle 4fs. Also, with these R2R dac chips, re-clocking the LE signal right at the chip with a separately regulated D flip flop, if setup/hold timing is good, will result in lower jitter and cleaner sonics.

This phenomena of flavoring to taste with different reconstruction filters on playback illustrates the importance of conjugate filters to exactly retrace the waveform that full path unfolded and rendered MQA uniquely does. The MQA unfolding done by this USB card feeding an ESS 9039M dac chip will do that. An irony is that with the advent of digital audio, one of the claims made was no more subjective futzing to adjust the playback sonics, as is done with analog, finely adjusting the VTA of different cartridges, record clamps, turntable isolation schemes, the works. Joke's on you, Mr. Digital.

What R2R playback schemes are missing is the final MQA rendering with exact conjugate filtering, but the loss is minimal to many ears, as most of the heavy lifting is already done in the MQA encoding process. You still get the de-blurred encoding with gently shaped dither that mimics the analog world in keeping information below the noise floor intact, and minimal noise modulation, along with source verification, aka authentication.

As alluded, thermal tails in either power supply regulators, or in the signal path are a bugaboo that is often overlooked. 33’s listening tests have indicated that a *LOT* of the perceptually significant sonic action is going on below -80 dB. Nuances and subtle textures do matter to the gestalt of the listening experience.

Also it should be pointed out that low cost chi-fi components such as this expose the misnomer about high licensing costs as just that, a misnomer. There is a whole world of opportunity out there besides Uncle Sam’s Playground, who do not have access to unlimited bandwidth; and recognize and enjoy the cleaner sonics that MQA provides.

Addendum:

This MQA USB card, the Nonwa, is compatible with TI//BB DF1706 filter, and NOS 28 pin plug in modules, when the mclk is set to 512 Fs, 22/24 MHz. Not all filters are happy with that, some want 256 Fs 11/12 Mhz. Now, what is cool is the mclk can be set to 1024 Fs, 44/49 MHz, and with an ESS dac chip mentioned above, you can operate the ESS in synchronous mode, without needing a 100 MHz clock. Just feed the mclk to it and enjoy even better sonics.

[world-of-advice]

1997 streaming audio debates

[zikplay]

Artistes : découvre diverses stars sur Zikplay

Zikplay offre une variété de rubriques captivantes à explorer. L’une d’entre elles est la section « Artistes », où tu trouveras une sélection impressionnante d’albums de nombreux chanteurs renommés. Parmi eux, Rachid Kasmi se distingue avec des titres tels que « Min Yaqsah Oranam », « Taht alla rassi », et « Enti enti omri », entre autres. Cette plateforme te permet de télécharger légalement de…

[ambivertedbabe]

Arthur Lester vs Jigsaw

clips from the most recent Spooky Stream

[with-both-my-hearts]

Whoever was in charge of changing cameras live during the stream, I love you. (Aka: Ren stalks his prey (False) through multiple camera angles and then gets run over with a chair)

[adguy]

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[royalarchivist]

Phil: The last time I got like, legitimately fckin' angry on stream was when my- my Egg child died. Sorry– my two Egg children died in a really dumb way, and I got genuinely pissed off. And that was– that was the last time I got like, visibly mad.

Sneeg: Dude, that sht looked stressful. That server looked stressful with- with the Egg stuff.

Phil: It was! Mhmm. It fckin was, it was like, crazy! I got to meet a lot of really cool people, so I'll always just be thankful for that, and not just think about the stressful times, like...

Sneeg: True. Yeah, well... Ain't that life. [Laughs]

Phil: [Laughs and says in a sing-songy voice] "That's life!"

Sneeg: Ain't that life– of being like "Wow, a lot of this was very scary, but at least I got to do some cool sht, I suppose." [Laughs]

Phil: [Laughs] Yeah.

[puppyrelp]

ii alt ending

[themostimportantnight]

World’s est dad

[everydaylouie]

happy halloween! here's a spooky song i wrote + recorded yesterday. lyrics under the cut!

Guy:

I don’t feel quite like myself Inside I’m fighting with somebody else Blacking out, waking up with no memory Blood on my hands in the middle of the street

Demon:

This guy’s a vessel of the highest degree No-brainer, got no brains and no self esteem The perfect host for my unholy needs With whom I’ll carry out the most devilish of deeds

Guy:

I’m possessed My mind is not my own Demon: I’ve got him on the phone You’re under my control Guy: I’m possessed Oh now what have I done?

Demon:

Oh, this is so much fun With you under my thumb You’re possessed! Guitar/Bass solos

Guy:

I’m possessed There’s voices in my head

Demon:

I’ve got him seeing red You’re under my control

Guy:

I’m possessed I ate the local priest...

Demon:

Ooo, I’m such a little beast! Now let’s go have a feast

[tyzfol]

pim loves gaming

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Mmph, hey babygirl. Just closing up the cathedral for the day.

That damn object didn't even come by today.

Well, at least I got a little bit of worship in and sharpened my blades, adjusted my armor. Tighter than it was, I think.

Maybe just because I was thinking of you *laughs*

Probably going to bed soon, just wanted to check in. Remind you to pray.

I miss you, sleep well honey. Goodnight.