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On the most recent Hello Internet CGP Grey voices some interesting concerns about how we spend out attention and he lists podcasts as one of the ways he unintentionally fills all downtime for his brain.
And yes, it is off course a bit ironic to hear this on a podcast but I never the less agree with him. I’m in the middle of listening to their discussion now, so maybe I’ll re-evaluate some of my own media consumption afterwards.
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Judging by my drinking habits, I should probably have a lot more tattoos and facial hair.
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and tagged it with Ambisonics Narrating my work Oculus Go It seems like the correct way to get spatial audio to work on the Oculus Go is to encode your video as a ”Facebook 360 Video” in the FB360 Encoder.
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and tagged it with Ambisonics Narrating my work Oculus Go Download and listen to Microcast: Ambisonics and Binaural
@MrHenko Very interesting. I’ve always wanted to play with binaural; do you think it would work using two small Sony ECM-50s attached to ear hooks, or do you really need in-ear microphones?
@jeremycherfas ECM-50s (or similar) placed close to your ears would certainly create some kind of binaural effect and would give much more of a 3D experience than traditional stereo techniques but probably not as good as an actual dummy head, or in ear microphones. (Like these, for instance: http://www.thomann.de/se/sennhe...)
Even something like an ORTF placement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTFstereotechnique) gives more of a 3D experience than something like a traditional spaced pair or X/Y stereo.
My advice is if you have two ECM-50s, try it!
@MrHenko Thanks. Those Sennheisers look really interesting. Expensive at first glance, but then, you get in ear speakers too. At the moment the only buds I have are some horribly distorting Beats. Might have to start saving my pennies.
@jeremycherfas I haven’t tested those myself but Sennheiser is one of the pro audio companies that I put a lot of trust into, so they are probably a great purchase.
However it seems like they are for recording with an iOS device only which limits their appeal a bit to me.
@MrHenko Agreed. The lightning connector is a bit restrictive. I’m sure someone will come up with lightning to 2xXLR at some point.
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@MrHenko great timing friend just sent me an Android game he has been working on and am trying to figure out how to use old Android phone I have located ! 👍
@adamprocter Cool! I’m glad that a post that was almost 100% for my own future selfs benifit actually helped someone else as well. That’s one of the cool things about blogging. Even the things that you think will only help your self might be valuable to someone else.
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and tagged it with Narrating my work Surround sound One of the sad collateral damages to updating to macOS High Sierra was my beloved1 Apple Compressor 3. Today I bought and installed Compressor 4 instead. I did that for the same reason that I years ago started using Compressor 3; to batch encode surround sound mixes from PCM (wave, most of the time) to Dolby Digital (AC3).
In Compressor 4, this no longer work.
It’s not that it is a deprecated feature, it is that the feature is broken. If I use AIFF files, it does work, if I use WAVE it doesn’t.
I’ve dug around a bit and it seems to be either a problem with Compressor 4.4.1, and it wasn’t a problem in 4.4.0, or it is a problem with High Sierra. The error message says
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I’m not a developer but to me that seems like an SDK problem, so maybe it is High Sierra (in my case 10.13.5) that is the problem.
The silver lining is that there is an update to 10.13.6 available, so I guess I’ll do that update and hope for the best. See you on the other side.
@MrHenko 10.13.6 did not fix the problem. :(
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JohnPhilpin
1 september, 2018 20:55@MrHenko I subscribe to a lot … I listen to a few … Castro is great for curation … the ones that have interesting guests and / or topics make it … rambling 2.5 hour ‘casts like @gruber ‘s do not get listened to any more.
JohnPhilpin
1 september, 2018 20:57@MrHenko my list of podcast subscriptions if you have interest
MrHenko
5 september, 2018 11:16@JohnPhilpin I tried the same thing a year or so ago and I really liked the organization of Castro. However there was something about the astetics of Castro that just didn’t fit with me. It feel weird to say, but using it felt wrong for a lack of better word. Once I switched back to Overcast I felt at home again, but I do miss the inbox style approach.
MrHenko
5 september, 2018 11:16@JohnPhilpin Thanks!
JohnPhilpin
5 september, 2018 16:30@MrHenko interesting …. So what does overcast have / do that makes you feel at home?