Honey, I shrunk the TV(cakehonolulu.github.io)
9 points by cakehonolulu | 19 comments
Blog post about working around Samsung Q-Symphony's inability to disable TV speakers on a 2025 TV by setting max volume to 0 in the hidden service menu.
#audio on Hacker News
18 stories tagged audio, newest first.
Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP(github.com)
71 points by androsynth89 | 30 comments
GitHub repository for blokkily, an experimental pattern-first digital audio workstation with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect(epestr.com)
112 points by epestr | 35 comments
A blog post describing how the author reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect to recreate it as a simple real-time audio processor for Linux using PipeWire.
Open source 160 sound visualization experiments(kagan.in)
49 points by kaganin | 13 comments
A visual archive of 160+ open source sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories, including waveform animations, spectrum patterns, matrix displays and particles.
Simulating Airband AM Radios(bitbashing.io)
54 points by shellpipe | 4 comments
Blog post from Bit Bashing about simulating airband AM radio audio effects for voice chat in the Falcon BMS combat flight simulator.
Firmware Freedom(playtaurus.com)
10 points by arbayi | 4 comments
Taurus blog post arguing guitarists should be free to run their own firmware on multi-effects hardware, noting cheap chips outperform old DSPs and inviting open-source collaboration.
Music Theory for Programmers(runjs.app)
352 points by birdculture | 221 comments
A RunJS blog post by Luke Haas explaining music theory concepts for programmers, likely with JavaScript code examples.
Wired headphone sales are exploding(bbc.com)
380 points by billybuckwheat | 636 comments
BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on rising wired headphone sales and the backlash against Bluetooth audio.
The vocal effects of Daft Punk(bjango.com)
408 points by qzervaas | 103 comments
A Bjango article examining the vocal effects Daft Punk used in their songs, drawing on a May 2001 Remix magazine interview with the duo.
Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops(github.com)
555 points by tosh | 200 comments
Triforce is a Rust LV2 plugin implementing an MVDR adaptive beamformer for the microphone arrays in Apple Silicon MacBooks.
Watt The Fox?(h.43z.one)
320 points by h43z | 69 comments
Blog post investigating how websites keep audio sinks active, wasting CPU and battery, and how Firefox allows it, discovered via PulseAudio on Linux.
Mixxx: GPL DJ Software(mixxx.org)
597 points by brudgers | 124 comments
Homepage of Mixxx, a free and open source DJ software for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews(otranscribe.com)
449 points by zerojames | 99 comments
Landing page for oTranscribe, a free, open-source browser app for manually transcribing recorded interviews with keyboard playback controls and export options.
Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song(grooved.okat.best)
433 points by okatbest | 216 comments
Landing page for Grooved, a free ad-free iOS app that measures turntable platter speed using the phone's microphone while playing any record.
Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
552 points by tfsh | 245 comments
Google Workspace Updates blog post announcing adaptive audio in Google Meet, letting multiple laptops in one room form an ad-hoc meeting space without feedback.
Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds(arstechnica.com)
543 points by dagenix | 75 comments
Ars Technica article about a modder who reconstructed bootable Game Boy Advance games, including Pokémon, by recording the audio produced when the games crash.
Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier(amiaopensource.github.io)
353 points by nice__two | 86 comments
ffmprovisr is an AMIA open-source reference of FFmpeg command recipes with explanations for common audio and video processing tasks.
Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod(mikebeauchamp.com)
558 points by edent | 279 comments
A personal blog guide showing how to modify Sennheiser HD 555 headphones into the pricier HD 595 model using only a screwdriver.