Constellations of Us will be premiered at Lightwaves Salford, a free outdoor light festival with 12 interactive installations located around MediaCity and Salford Quays.
Opening Thu 4 – Sun 7 Dec 2025, from 4pm-10pm
#immersive #soundscape #installation #lightwaves #salford #mediacity #quaysculture #envelop4live #surroundsound
https://taylornuttall.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/constellations-of-us/
We’re thrilled to share that our "Medieval Towns and Villages Ambience Kit" is currently on super sale.
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Don’t miss out - this super-deal ends soon!
#SoundDesign #GameAudio #FilmAudio #AudioDrama #Podcast #ImmersiveAudio #Surroundsound #Ambience #SoundEffects #AudioLibraries
I have a new project launching in two weeks time as part of Lightwaves Salford. A preview of this will be being tested out at Beyond 2025 taking place at Media City on 24th to 26th Nov.
More information about the immersive soundscape can be found at my blog www.taylornuttall.com which I am updating as the work comes to fruition.
#immersive #soundscape #installation #surroundsound #soundart #lightwaves #MediaCity
Periodic reminder.
Soundbars are crap, zero exceptions.
Surround sound only happens when you have speakers SURROUNDING you.
BlueTooth wireless connection is unsecure garbage, single channel, prone to hiccups in streaming.
Wires are best.
You don't need to spend a lot to have great surround sound.
ME: (being the stereotypical indecisive Libra) I can't decide if I want to actually wire the billiard room for surround sound or just get a sound bar. I wish there were somehow a sound bar that could still do rear channels.
JBL: Helllloooooooo
Fascinating night at @bfi last night as @kermodedodge & @nellyjelson were joined by special guests @anne.j_dudley & @rachelportmancomposer to explore cinema’s soundtracks during this launch event for their book "Surround Sound"
#surroundsound
@heddaarchbold
#teamphoto
#monochrome
Frage an Audio-Kundige: Ich habe hier eine CD, der liegt als Bonus-Disk eine DVD bei mit einem Surround-Mix des Albums. Die Beschreibung sagt: »Digipak with 5.1 audio DVD-V (Dolby Digital, DTS)«. Gibt es einen Weg bzw. eine Toolchain, diesen Surround-Mix von der DVD runter zu rippen und so umzurechnen, dass ich den über Stereokopfhörer, aber mit „räumlicher“ Auflösung hören kann? Ich denke in Richtung Ambisonic.
Habe hier Linux und macOS in Verwendung. #audio #surroundsound
Lukewarm take:
Soundbars are garbage.
(watch a goddamn dumbass come argue this, trying to twist reality that sound can come from behind you, if there are speakers only in front of you, in a single point, not even two points apart)
I wonder sometimes if I like some shows and movies better than others because I have a full surround sound system in my living room.
Current "whoa" surround mixing examples:
- Alien:Earth S1E3 - last 5 minutes.
- Sinners - that music scene
Splitting a Surround Sound Audio File in Ubuntu
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/07/splitting-a-surround-sound-audio-file-in-ubuntu/
See this update for a better way to do this.
Being mostly notes to myself and following on from my post on Quadrophonic files.
I have:
I want:
It turns out, that there is no simple way to do this. There are tools to split stereo wav files by their cue sheet, but nothing for 5.1 files.
So, here's how I did it. This process uses mkvtools and avconv.
The Easy (But Fairly Manual) Way!
I can't find an automated way to do this from a cuesheet - so here's what you need to do.
A typical cue looks like
TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Alice" PERFORMER "Bob" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Carol" PERFORMER "Bob" INDEX 01 04:38:14 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Dolly" PERFORMER "Bob" INDEX 01 08:39:09...
Track 2 starts at 4 minutes, 38.14 seconds into the file. It finishes at (8m 39.09s - 4m 38.14s) = 4m 0.95s.
avconv -f dts -i original.wav -ss 00:04:38.014 -t 00:04:0.95 -acodec copy track2.wav
That is, avconv forced to use DTS, starting at 4.38.014 and finishing after 4m .95s, copying the codec into a new file.
Calculating Offsets
It's hard to manually calculate all the timings. One quick(ish) way to get them is by using cueconvert.
cueconvert -i cue -o toc cue.cue cue.toc
If you open the newly created .toc file, you should see something like:
FILE "track1.wav" 0 04:38:14FILE "track2.wav" 04:38:14 04:00:70FILE "track3" 08:39:09 04:38:57...
You can then use those timings as your -ss and -t values - remember to add the extra leading "00:".
Limitations
The Hard (But Somewhat Automated) Way!
Convert the .WAV to .MKV
avconv -i whatever.wav -acodec copy output.mkv
In some cases, avconv will think your 5.1 recording is stereo. Fix it by forcing the codec it detects.
avconv -f dts -i whatever.wav -acodec copy output.mkv
Create a Chapters File
MKVmerge require a specific format of chapter file which is different from a normal .cue file. Creating this will be a manual process.
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01CHAPTER02=00:05:06.03CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02CHAPTER03=00:10:12.000...
Save that as chapters.txt.
Add The Chapters to the .MKV
A single command for this one:
mkvmerge output.mkv --chapters chapters.txt -o withchapters.mkv
Split The MKV
There are a couple of ways to do this, I use:
mkvmerge withchapters.mkv --split chapters:all -o track.mkv
You'll now have track-001.mkv, track-002.mkv etc.
Limitations
At this point, we have two moderately annoying problems.
That last one is rather a showstopper! For some reason, the .MKV files play back their audio properly. When trying to extract or convert it, all sorts of stream errors occur.
TODO
Either write a patch for avconv to get it to split by .cue - or write a small Python script to do everything automagically!
Any suggestions for a better way to do this? Stick them in the comments box.
While I am at it.
Bluetooth is single channel shit. MCAP reduces sound quality. Hiccups in pairing mean your listening is riddled with enough breaks to cause cringe.
Any codec after Dolby TruHD and DTS-HD Master is fluff. Anything over 7 channels + subwoofer is basically marketing.
"BUY BUY BUY!!!"
Lukewarm take:
Soundbars are piss-poor excuses for surround sound systems.
NOTHING can adequately project sound from behind and around you but actual individual speakers behind and around you.
L+R speakers must be at least 6-7ft apart for you to properly distinguish sounds.
Any opinions to the contrary is either by people who have only had soundbars, or truly shitty excuses for surround sound systems.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Hope everyone has/had a good Friday.
Mine was "interresting".
Dad: My Games don't run. Can you have a look?
Turned out his setup stumbled over
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/4722
Some proton games just refuse to start or break in interesting ways on steam and heroic.
TUXEDO OS updated there packages to 1.4.3-1tux1 earlier this week and this bug is present.
Gonna send 'em a message on Monday if they haven't fixed it already by then (they tend to be fast)
#tuxedoos #pipewire #bug #SurroundSound #proton #linux #steam #heroicgameslauncher
Hoping maybe the #Fediverse hive mind has some ideas about a problem.
My old workhorse Onkyo AV receiver died a few months back, and I replaced it with a Denon AVR-S970H. And it's driving me nuts.
My #TV is old, from the final generation of plasmas. Great picture. Sound is okay, but it only understands stereo and mono in uncompressed or AC-3 formats. Anything else sent to it - different codec, or multichannel/surround - is ignored and you get no sound. But that's okay!
Most of the things I watch that have stereo sound I just want to listen to through the TV anyways - TV shows, old non-spectacle movies, documentaries, all that sort of stuff. When I have a Big Movie with a #surround soundtrack, that's when I want to listen to it through the fancy speakers and the #AVR.
With my old #Onkyo, this was easy: the receiver always played the sound through itself and also sent it to the TV. If I wanted simple stereo, I'd just mute the receiver. If it was a surround sound thing, the TV just ignored it.
The #Denon... doesn't do this. I have to configure whether to output the sound through the TV, or through the AVR. There's no option for "both".
1/2
#HiveMind #help #HomeTheater #HomeTheatre #receiver #SurroundSound
Pink Floyd in surround sound. Super Audio CD /SACD. High resolution format of the past and are still being made. These (and DVDA) are as awesome as vinyl records are for analog but are digital's peak. #pinkfloyd #sacd #dvdaudio #dvda #superaudiocd #SurroundSound #music
The Blue Man Group's AUDIO album is one of my favorite multi-channel high res 192/24 audio albums that I have. The mix itself, the incredible highs, the insanely rich base. Completely independent tracks written for each speaker. It's unfortunate that 5.1 music never really caught on, though I am happy that most live concerts recorded today are in 5.1. #music #highdefinition #highresolution #SurroundSound #Surround #audio #dvdaudio #sacd
Ugh, I missed the trailer drop 2-3 days ago on YouTube and the theater near me only has seats on the sides of the first two rows.
A theater in South Miami has a perfect seat left, but that's too far to travel since I've already experienced the concert show on AppleTV with my 4K tv and 5.1 surround system.
It's awesome 👏🏿
I'd love to see this in IMAX, but that doesn't seem possible.
#Björk: #Cornucopia #concert #film #movie #IMAX #AppleTV #4K #SurroundSound
Okay y'all, I hit the jackpot again! So I have the OnePlus 13 phone, and Earfun wireless earbuds. So I was trying surround sound playback on the AAC Multichannel Playback Test page from Fraunhoffer, and while the OReality audio doesn't use the surround sound channels, the Spatial Audio option does! So yeah, while the OnePlus doesn't have Dolby Atmos, it does support surround sound emulation. Lets see an iPhone do that! :)
So in my quest to get Dolby Pro Logic surround sound encoding in Godot, I have stumbled upon the docs for AudioEffectStereoEnhance. It had no documentation until now with 4.4 coming out. But it appears to go about encoding matrix surround sound the same way as Dolby Pro Logic by phase shifting the rear channels. How exactly it does this is not explained and these descriptions are still not detailed enough, but I think I might finally be nearing the end of my quest for outdated surround sound lol
I will try to test this later and will report back if I find anything useful.
#lambgamedev #godot #gamedev #surroundsound #dolby
Sonos plant exklusive Streaming-Box: Konkurrenz für Apple TV?
Sonos arbeitet an einer neuen High-End-Streaming-Set-Top-Box, die Apple TV und ähnliche Plattformen herausfordern soll. Das Gerät soll noch im Laufe dieses Jahres erscheinen und richtet sic
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/sonos-plant-exklusive-streaming-box-konkurrenz-fuer-apple-tv/
#News #TV #AppleTV #Audioqualitt #HDMIPassthrough #Heimkino #HighEndStreaming #Sonos #SonosVoiceControl #StreamingBox #SurroundSound #WiFi7
