Audio

I was screwing around with playlists on my desktop and had meant to see how well things work on my phone… Turns out it works pretty well.

I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you probably already know how to install Termux on your phone, and from there install emacs.

Once you’ve got that out of the way, install mpv and either (or both) exiftools or mediainfo. All of which should be installable with pkg install whatever. I was kind of surprised to find mpv available, and it of course doesn’t play video, but it does audio pretty well.

I’m planning on reposting some old posts with useful content, so first is…

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I saw a nifty trick on Mastodon the other day. Someone pointed out that you can use the SoX library to generate sounds like you get from the bedside sleep aids. I’d forgotten SoX even has synthesizers, but it does. So you can use play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30 to make ocean surf sounds. It’s super simple, lag free, etc.