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Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by andirk »

imtyler wrote: post #83
matthewfelgate wrote: post #2

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.

Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.

Radio is famous for very annoying ads that are often louder than the program's content. Every time I hear that 1800 Cars for Cash song, I turn off the radio. As far as DJs go, around here SF Bay Area, a lot of the stations are part of that male/female first name radio stations (Alice, Dave, Bob, etc) and the "DJ" is some recorded person saying like "How's it going, [fill in city name]. How about those clowns in congress huh. Here's some more music hits of the genre you are listening to."

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by naremu »

imtyler wrote: post #83
matthewfelgate wrote: post #2

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.

Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.

Technically speaking, I really shouldn't have a problem with ads.

But between the actual psychological tricks that often come across as trashy once you acquire a distaste/realization of them, and the general unenforcement of false advertising law, monopolistic conditions favoring ads campaigns/brand awareness over quality or reputation, refusal of companies to turn down lowest scamming denominator dollars, ads are effectively venom to any average consumer.

One of the major contributing factors to market inefficiency, I'd argue. Advertising shouldn't be such a blatantly untrustworthy, scammy method of extracting wealth from people for questionable valued services/products, but it usually turns out that way.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#93

Post by eiiot »

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #55
unixhero wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It exists Revanced on Android Stube on AndroidTV

Is there something like this for iOS?

I've been using uYou+[0] & AltStore for about 6 months (since I switched to iOS from Android & Vanced) and I haven't had any problems with it. It has both SponsorBlock & normal ad block.

[0]: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#94

Post by chairmanwow1 »

pfist wrote: post #74
midasuni wrote: post #39

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You could just pay for premium

Unfortunately, most podcasts on Spotify still have ads for Premium subscribers.

Don’t use Spotify. Horrible experience for listening. Overcast is way better.

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by jansommer »

I've used an app on Android for Spotify called ad-free that does something similar. I think it polls the notification list and somehow gets info on the currently played song, and if the notification is a link to something being advertised, then volume is set to 0. Pretty neat.

Edit: Here's the source... https://github.com/abertschi/ad-free

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#96

Post by [deleted] »

andirk wrote: post #91
imtyler wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.

Radio is famous for very annoying ads that are often louder than the program's content. Every time I hear that 1800 Cars for Cash song, I turn off the radio. As far as DJs go, around here SF Bay Area, a lot of the stations are part of that male/female first name radio stations (Alice, Dave, Bob, etc) and the "DJ" is some recorded person saying like "How's it going, [fill in city name]. How about those clowns in congr…

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Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#97

Post by [deleted] »

andirk wrote: post #91
imtyler wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.

Radio is famous for very annoying ads that are often louder than the program's content. Every time I hear that 1800 Cars for Cash song, I turn off the radio. As far as DJs go, around here SF Bay Area, a lot of the stations are part of that male/female first name radio stations (Alice, Dave, Bob, etc) and the "DJ" is some recorded person saying like "How's it going, [fill in city name]. How about those clowns in congr…

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Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#98

Post by agiacalone »

autoexec wrote: post #81
manishsharan wrote: post #15

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I have always wrestled with the ethics of adblocking YouTube. If am subscribed to a channel, that means the content in that channel has value for me. And it is only fair that I provide some value to the content creators in return. Otherwise it is theft. Anyways this is my reasoning. Hence as much as I find ads to be annoying, I put up with them. I am considering cancelling my Spotify subscription and using the saving…

> I have always wrestled with the ethics of adblocking YouTube have you considered the ethics of the ads themselves? Ads are all too often nonconsensual, manipulative, and harmful. They're designed to exploit us. You should respect yourself enough to avoid them when you can. While I haven't verified the attribution, I can't really argue with this sentiment: https://i.redd.it/43f9y0p4ni281.png Ad-blocking really isn't…

Not to mention a common malware vector

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

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Post by askvictor »

M3L0NM4N wrote: post #76
askvictor wrote: post #57

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.

I've always wondered about this for watching TV

Have a look at MythTV - it works really well, though doesn't use ML as much as a combination of signals the often occur when an ad starts (e.g. blank frame, watermark disappears, jump in volume).

Re: Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

#100

Post by askvictor »

imtyler wrote: post #83
matthewfelgate wrote: post #2

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.

Aw. I want to like this, but I work in radio. If you remove ads then there's no reason for the broadcaster to keep going. I'm not trying to be controversial, but if you remove profit how can the business continue to exist? And if terminating the business is your goal, why? People seem to have a grudge against radio and I honestly don't know why. It's my livelihood. I'm not seeking sympathy, but I am curious.

I subscribe (i.e. pay a yearly fee) to a local community radio station (which has an amazing range of music, and is 80% of my music intake). I generally like the announcers, and the sponsorship announcements are often things I'm interested in. But sometimes I just want music (like when I'm exercising). So there's a use case for you.
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