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Post by HenryBemis »

pragma_x wrote: post #195

I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…

> ..a kind of punk-rock..

And my mind flew to Mogwai's "Punk Rock" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ5_0AMEDag)

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Post by jperoutek »

I love the styling of this page. Everything is so consistent. Sometimes you'll see someone with a similar retro approach, but rarely do all the page elements follow the style this well.

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Post by ralusek »

chfritz wrote: post #168

Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?

I used to go build houses in Tijuana with a charity, and invariably, some neighbor would see us building, and come out with some speakers to absolutely blast mariachi. Always followed up by a wave or a thumbs up, implicit that an objective net improvement had just been deployed.

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Post by twic »

geor9e wrote: post #171

I hear a Muni bus stop nearby, and a lot of voices at 3AM, so I am guessing it's near bars, maybe Mission street. Maybe a pole near enough to an apartment fire escape to ziptie a solar panel. I wonder if the timestamps are accurate enough for me to ride my bike down mission blasting a song, and check strava for where I was at that timestamp, then spot the spotter. Just for fun of course, not to post or dox.

Rather than relying on the bop spotter timestamp, you could play thirty-second snatches of different extremely obscure songs, on a schedule. When one of them turns up on the bop spotter, you know when you were passing it, to thirty seconds precision.

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Post by twic »

travisjungroth wrote: post #198
chfritz wrote: post #168

Cool. And I noticed that a surprisingly high number of songs are in Spanish. So I'll venture to hypothesize that this project will identify a correlation between musical taste and preference for how loud it is played, rather than accurately capturing the "musical taste of the neighborhood". Any thoughts on that? Have you tested how loud a song needs to be played in order to be picked up?

Malmquist bias[0] for neighborhood music! It would be hard to find that correlation because you can’t get a base rate. I don’t think you can measure the distance, so you don’t know if it’s loud or close. Maybe there’s no correlation independent of the music taste of the neighborhood. Lots of Spanish doesn’t surprise me. It’s a neighborhood that’s still largely Mexican, and Latin Pop is really big in the US in general…

Malmsteen bias?

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Post by t-3 »

scottyah wrote: post #212
saghm wrote: post #191

I notice that on September 28 (near the top of the list, since it doesn't seem to have anything for today yet) the same Pitbull song was detected separately a little less than an hour apart, and I can't help but wonder if it was the same person listening to it on loop. Several months ago, my fiancee and I overheard someone driving outside blasting Adele's "Someone Like You" from inside our apartment, and every 45 min…

Or spotify jamming a song into everyone's algorithms, as a cynical take. I have never looked up and played Drake or Taylor Swift, but they come up in "curated" playlists thought-provokingly often.

> I have never looked up and played Drake or Taylor Swift, but they come up in "curated" playlists thought-provokingly often.

That's not necessarily due to payola or whatever - both Drake and Swift are very talented as well as prolific and among the best operating these days, even if they are pop artists. It's not strange to see them recommended algorithmically if the listener is into modern music at all.

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Post by saghm »

t-3 wrote: post #266
scottyah wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or spotify jamming a song into everyone's algorithms, as a cynical take. I have never looked up and played Drake or Taylor Swift, but they come up in "curated" playlists thought-provokingly often.

> I have never looked up and played Drake or Taylor Swift, but they come up in "curated" playlists thought-provokingly often. That's not necessarily due to payola or whatever - both Drake and Swift are very talented as well as prolific and among the best operating these days, even if they are pop artists. It's not strange to see them recommended algorithmically if the listener is into modern music at all.

I almost exclusively listen to music from before the 90s, and Spotify has never once tried to play me anything from either of those artists, so that seems like a more likely explanation to me.

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Post by btbuildem »

pragma_x wrote: post #195

I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…

> how it was made is less interesting than what it _does_

That's the best part!

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Post by buildsjets »

itishappy wrote: post #61
tirant wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess no one with loud music considers themself an asshole, so this should be actually giving the information on exactly what you mention.

I had a collogue who installed his speaker setup facing backwards out of his trunk. He knew what he was doing.

He knew what he was doing, but YOU had no clue what he was doing. Low frequency audio is close to non-directional, you install subwoofers where it is convenient to fit them, not to "aim" the sound in any particular direction.

Mine is firing directly upwards. I'm not trying to knock birds out of the sky.

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