{"id":394,"date":"2007-03-30T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-03-30T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T17:57:04","slug":"buddha-box-music-now-with-more-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/394","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Box music &#8212; now with more zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/FUDCon\/FUDConBoston2007\">FUDCON 2007<\/a>, someone brought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/24\/buddha_machine_spiri.html\">Buddha Machine<\/a>, aka Buddha Box.  It was very cool, and I was pleased to see that the sound tracks are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fm3buddhamachine.com\/site\/?page_id=29\">available for download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Track 1 has some nasty high-frequency distortion in the wave file that renders it extremely not zen.  I decided to run a filter over it to clean it up, and turned to my usual go-to sound program (which I dislike) called Audacity.  Audacity wanted no part of Buddha:<\/p>\n<pre>audacity: layer3.c:2633: mad_layer_III: Assertion `stream->md_len + md_len - si.main_data_begin < = (511 + 2048 + 8)' failed.\r\nAborted (core dumped)\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So I turned to the new kid on the block, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jokosher.org\/\">Jokosher<\/a>.  It actually worked quite well.  Sometimes it was difficult to know when to right click, when to left click, and when to doubleclick[1], but once I figured that out I was able to apply a lowpass filter and an EQ to clean up the audio.  I feel much calmer now.<\/p>\n<p>Here's the resulting ogg file: <a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/sounds\/buddhamachine01.ogg\">buddamachine01.ogg (fixed)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These files (transcoded to ogg with oggenc) play great inside my <a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wiki\/index.php\/OLPC_Work\">sonata activity<\/a> on the olpc.  Add one of the files to the playlist, right-click the playlist and select \"repeat.\"<\/p>\n<p>[1]answers:  Right click on <em>timeline<\/em> of audio file instrument to import file; doubleclick on an effect to open effect properties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At FUDCON 2007, someone brought a Buddha Machine, aka Buddha Box. It was very cool, and I was pleased to see that the sound tracks are available for download. However, Track 1 has some nasty high-frequency distortion in the wave file that renders it extremely not zen. I decided to run a filter over it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buddha Box music &#8212; now with more zen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}