In a comment I've made a little bit ago, I mentioned that I was tasking myself to discover music that was played on an old radio program that I listened to from the 2000s. And it is looking to be a lot more prolonged and tedious than I had thought. I've been able to find a program that has done an amazing job at removing the host's voices to where, I can't tell where they start or stop talking, I get hints that there were points of voices being there, but it's non-existent.
I've tried before in the past to use Audacity, but being that all recordings were done in Mono and not Stereo, no matter what I tried, the voices would still remain. So now that hurdle is done with, the next task is to go through all 139 episodes and all episodes average 1 hour to 2 hours. That's a long time if you're doing radio or podcasting, it's a lot of talking to do. Then it's a matter of listening back and forth at one points certain songs begin and end, marking times to point them out with.
I might pick out some standout favorites, episodes that contained the most songs that I would have wanted the most from them. Then once all of that is figured, the next course of action is to clean up the sample audio, because most of these episodes were recorded in Mono so there's going to be a lot of distortion and muddiness.
Then once all of that is done, the next challenging task is, actually finding someone who'll be able to identify what is played. I don't know electronic/techno music too well, I'm not entirely familiar with artists outside Daft Punk, Celldweller, 3Teeth and Pendulum to name a few. The only thing that sortof helps narrow things down is that they were all played on DI.FM at the time, so it may or may not help.
From there, it's just hoping I find them out there online.
It's a big project, but I've listened to these episodes for 18 years now and what kept me coming back to them besides nostalgic purposes, was the music played in them that never got identified.
Good luck. I'd like to see how that turn out
Thanks, I'm debating open sourcing the second one, it's a simple app to show formations and movement for in posession and out of possession formations. I'm making it specifically for my indoor soccer team, but I'm making it have outdoor 9v9 and 11v11 formations too.
If you want to follow the progress I will be posting on mastodon about it soon.
@Imakethingsforu@mastodon.social
The first one is a much bigger app, written in Rust/Slint with a hosted back end. It's primary goal is to make it easier for youth soccer coaches to have access tons drill library, automated practice plans that take into account when your games are and focus on keeping your players healthy. It applies a little data science to wellness based on subjective player ratings. I built in a very simple 5 question email to the players that is basically, 1-5 how is your fatigue, how tired do you feel, how sore do you feel etc.... The coach gets a player fitness score when they make their lineup for the game. Which is a neat drag and drop roster to field UI.
Im pretty proud of it. I've already got it on the play store using the internal testing track and am trying to find coaches to test it.
That's cool. I'll definitely follow this.