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MERT Vamp Plugin, and a Lossy Encoding Detector

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I'm just finishing a project in the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) that involved creating a couple of new Vamp plugins from machine-learning models for music audio. MERT Vamp Plugin: a feature extractor for MERT audio features Vamp Lossy Encoding Detector: detect whether music audio has previously been encoded via lossy compression A Vamp plugin… Continue reading MERT Vamp Plugin, and a Lossy Encoding Detector

Code · Programs for Music · Work

Rubber Band Library: a thrilling new release

Chris Cannam1 Comment

Rubber Band is a software library I wrote a while ago for changing audio recordings, typically of music, by altering their speed or pitch independently of one another — often known as time-stretching and pitch-shifting. There's a new release out, version 3.0, and I think it's terrific and sounds great and I'm very proud of… Continue reading Rubber Band Library: a thrilling new release

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A note on the paging behaviour of more(1) in util-linux 2.38

Chris Cannam1 Comment

I just updated this system from util-linux 2.37 to 2.38 (util-linux is a set of small, commonly-used command line programs) to find a small but distracting change in the behaviour of more(1), the venerable text file pager utility. For as long I can remember, the behaviour of more when run on a text file shorter… Continue reading A note on the paging behaviour of more(1) in util-linux 2.38

Code · Mighty Convolvuli · Security And That · Work

On macOS “notarization”

Chris Cannam

I've spent altogether too long, at various moments in the past year or so, trying to understand the code-signing, runtime entitlements, and "notarization" requirements that are now involved when packaging software for Apple macOS 10.15 Catalina. (I put notarization in quotes because it doesn't carry the word's general meaning; it appears to be an Apple… Continue reading On macOS “notarization”