I'll be co-presenting the first tutorial session at the Audio Engineering Society 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio, this weekend. (It's the society's 53rd Conference, and it happens to be about semantic audio. It's not their 53rd conference about semantic audio. In fact it's their second: that was also the theme of the AES 42nd Conference… Continue reading SoundSoftware tutorial at AES 53
Author: Chris Cannam
On Vodafone
Vodafone UK still haven't fixed the problem I grumbled about in my previous post. They've left me unable to use my primary mobile number for 7 weeks now. The phone works and has the right number, but it has become detached from the billing account somehow and can't be topped up, making it effectively useless.… Continue reading On Vodafone
Vodafone’s fiction of customer service
A couple of weeks ago I switched my mobile number to Vodafone, because they have better signal coverage in my workplace than T-Mobile. That was a mistake. Vodafone screwed up my account, and their support systems have only made it worse. And it's strange, because Vodafone work hard at making their customer service look good.… Continue reading Vodafone’s fiction of customer service
QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX
During the past 7 years or so, we in the Centre for Digital Music have published quite a few audio analysis methods in the form of Vamp plugins: bits of software that you can download and use yourself with Sonic Visualiser, run on a set of audio recordings with Sonic Annotator, or use with your… Continue reading QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX
Release Week ahead
I've built up quite a pile of almost-released new versions of software, in the lab at C4DM. It's time to get some of it released, and I'm planning to spend the next week or two doing exactly that. This means spending a lot of time getting cross about platform builds not working right (that's where… Continue reading Release Week ahead
Repairs
Waiting for a new hinge for the dishwasher door to be delivered. We got this thing in 2002. At the end of 2009 it started cutting out and we got a repairman in to fix it. He came twice, failed to diagnose the problem, changed the motherboard, quickly gave up. We decided to replace the… Continue reading Repairs
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