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why not just pay $10/month? sleep must worth more than that
Many podcasts insert their own ads, depending on which show they are listening to, in which case paying for Spotify won't make a difference.
Or maybe Overcast is fixing that for me among its many audio tweaks?
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
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Also a KEXP listener and supporter. Long live KEXP!
Listening now! While we're plugging: WFMU (NY) KALX (UC Berkeley) KZSC (UC Santa Cruz) KXT (listener-supported radio from Dallas/Ft Worth) Radio Paradise (no ads, listener supported) And many more...
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This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
You could just pay for premium
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.
Is there anything along this vein using ML to actually detect speech vs music (and tag or strip the speech)? Won't work for every situation (reggae radio tends to play music in the background while the presenter is talking, and some ads have music), but I can't imagine it would be the hardest thing to work out.
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Many podcasts insert their own ads, depending on which show they are listening to, in which case paying for Spotify won't make a difference.
IME ads inserted natively into podcasts don’t have the same horrible volume differences. Or maybe Overcast is fixing that for me among its many audio tweaks?
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
It’s funny because broadcasters have notmalized ads at +6 dB compared to the rest of the radio. It’s actually measured in LUFS, and it’s normalized worldwide for radio, podcasts, TV, movies, and commercials, so that commercials are louder. LUFS measures the loudness , which is not exactly the same as volume - it makes quiet moments louder so that everything can be heard while the car engine runs, but the drawback is…
This has actually be regulated against by the FCC. While the FCC is pretty much a feckless shell of an org, there are rules and ways to make complaints for their violations[0]
This won't be relevant for TuneIn (since it's Internet Radio), but you could probably do something similar to this on some FM channels by reading the RDS[1] messages accompanying the broadcast. That would depend on the channel signaling advertising, however, and I'm not sure that's normally included in RDS. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli Python library when Tunein is being used.
This is great. I wish there was a way to limit the volume on Alexa devices for different services, especially Spotify. I like to fall asleep to podcasts, but it wakes my girlfriend up when the commercials start (especially iHeartRadio commercials!), so I either have it so low I can barely hear or I have to fall asleep to rain/ocean sounds.