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Show HN: Mixtape of 200 “futuristic” songs circa 1980

Aug 13, 2023 - news.ycombinator.com
The author shares a mix of 200 "futuristic" music recordings from the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's, which took almost two years to compile. The mix, posted on Soundcloud, includes well-known tracks like "She Blinded Me With Science" and lesser-known ones like G.G. Tonet's "Dedicated To Norbert Wiener" and Jyl's "Silicon Valley".

The author faced challenges in matching the timbre and loudness of the 200 songs, which led to the creation of a program to band-split all the files and match their perceived loudness. The final mixing of songs was also done programmatically, using a program that takes start and end times of the regions to crossfade, and then adjusts the samplerate for the two tracks. The author used OpenAI's GPT4 to write a BASH script to perform the auto-EQ.

Key takeaways:

  • The author has compiled a mix of 200 "futuristic" music recordings from the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's and posted it on Soundcloud.
  • The compilation process took almost two years due to the technical challenge of matching the timbre and loudness of 200 songs.
  • The author wrote a program to band-split all the files and match their perceived loudness, and used OpenAI's GPT4 to write a BASH script to perform the auto-EQ.
  • The final mixing of songs was also done programmatically, using a program that takes start- and end- times of the regions to crossfade, and then ramps samplerate up or down for the two tracks.
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