I recently reorganised my free-to-use music tracks folders so you can see which have been uploaded to youtube and therefore might get hit by content ID and which have not.
Anyone is free to download and use anything from this folder they like. Proper attribution is the only expectation I have for your use of these files.
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On the 13th of august this year Česká spořitelna, a.s. have published an update to their #George banking app for #Android. that completelly disables #accessibility support when no white listed accessibility service is running on the device.
Thus #czech blind users who have updated their George app to the latest version can't run other accessibility services on their phones besides white listed apps such as TalkBack. I don't know which other apps are white listed yet.
I am afraid other Erste Bank subsidiaries or partner banks might do the same thing in the future. So this might potentially affect #austrian and #slovak blind people.
Here are the version numbers:
George Österreich 26.22.21 - appears to be accessible
George Slovensko 26.22.19 - Appears to be accessible
George Česká republika 26.26.21 - No longer accessible with 3rd party screen readers.
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@Paweł Masarczyk @Mathias Schmuckerschlag When side loading before the system allows you to enable the accessibility service you need to go to the settings app, then look for the app in question under applications, expand the more options under so called three dots menu and first allow secure settings from there. Afterwards system will allow you to enable the accessibility service. Also when side loading any app not just accessibility services you have to enable unknown app sources per application where you are installing from e.g. your web browser, your file manager and similar. So for non play store distributed apps you have to pass three layers of system security before the banking app protection has a chance to even do its job. If this trend will continue then we are likelly to get more layers of security and verification. Also next year google is tighting ability to side load apps even more difficult by waiting 24 hours in order to enable side loading at all.
My thinking is that if the accessibility service would not be so usefull people would rather choose not to pass all these extra hoops in order to get it installed and operational.
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Gary's career journey, approaches to reporting, and technology tips.Jay Pocknell (Sound Without Sight - Community hub for blind and partially sighted musicians)
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A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says “Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota.”
Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he’d give him a shot, so he gave him the job.
“You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.
“How many customers bought something from you today?” The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, “One”. The boss says “Just one?!!? Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.
That will have to change, and soon, if you’d like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida. One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Dakota, but you’re not on the farm anymore, son.”
The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day. He asked (semi-sarcastically), “So, how much was your one sale for?”
The kid looks up at his boss and says “$101,237.65.
The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?” The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, ‘Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing.’”
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Version 1.4.0 strengthens the upper end of Stream polish Auto-Adapt. At 100%, Auto-Adapt can now produce more sustained loudness and firmer high-frequency control on real program material, while au...GitHub
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My buddy Rachel put a new album out recently. Kinda jazzy/fusiony/proggy tunes. She's playing most of the things and self-producing/mixing. Essentially uses the computer like a tape recorder, mixes about as much as you would with a basic hardware board and that's that. It's astounding to me that one person can do all this without any of the mischief I rely on every time I open the DAW.
Give your earsies a puff of this and pass it along.
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@chikim @prism You know, I really hate the fact that as a platform, I think Bandcamp is the best thing artists can distribute their muisic on in terms of how much they can get back from it, especially on a Friday when they take almost no cut from the sales, and as a user we get the highest quality record that no one can take from you or randomly change. Objectively YouTube is a far worse platform, I think maybe only kind of useful for promotion more than anything but especially now it's flooded by AI slop. But yeah the accessibility in places could be better, the buttons you have to mouse click on and hopefully your screen reader will go to where the button is. How likely is that to be fixed, if it hasn't for this long and especially now that most of the staff was layed off, I don't know :(
Anyway, to not end on a negative, this album is really cool. Impressive it was produced how you described it.
TG Spaces is a free accessible convolution reverb for Windows and macOS — 190 rooms built from acoustic models rather than recordings, with every control spoken in metres and plain words. From TG Studios.tgstudios.app
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As many of you know, I once had a little project studio, originally a basement room, then later an apartment bedroom.
For the past 6.5 years, I have not had access to any of my studio gear, and I'm not sure if I ever will again.
One of the pieces of gear I have in that currently inaccessible collection is a Warp Factory vocoder, a wonderful thing from about 1999 or so, used by the likes of Fact Punk. I think they even had something to do with it's development.
The Warp Factory is a 24-band LPC-based vocoder with a stereo modulator and stereo carrier input, plus an intelligent passthrough for unvoiced sounds, which gives it an unusually broad and extremely clear sound not generally found with such devices. In other words, if you want that classic 70s/80s vocoder sound, this won't do it. It's just too big and full sounding, for better or worse, depending on what style you're looking for.
Years ago, I came across MDA Talkbox, which, while it doesn't have the super huge low-end frequency response or the unvoiced passthrough mode, in many other respects, it sounds very similar to the Warp Factory with all of it's filters straight up.
At my request (I think), @FreakyFwoof did a port of MDA Talkbox to Schwung for Ableton Move, which I recently forked. I made three major changes to the original by adding unvoiced passthrough mode, which uses a narrow band of frequencies and four orders of filtering centered around fricative and sibilant sounds to mute the vocoder and pass that through when detected, changed the coefficients for a higher LPC order, and added low-end restoration to bring out the bottom end of the output, which is a little more than just adding an EQ.
With all that stuff disabled, it sounds exactly like the original.
I have now released a forked version of MDA Talkbox, called MDA Talkbox Plus, in VST3/AU form for Mac and Windows, which adds those features, plus fricative gain.
Note: the Mac version is unsigned, because I'm currently too cheap to have an Apple developer cert, but this will at some point be rectified. Instructions for running it anyway are in the readme.
If you want to play, it can be found here:
github.com/borris84/mda-talkbo…
Yes, this was vibe-coded, full disclosure and all that.
Perhaps I will record a demo later.
First release. Paul Kellett's mda TalkBox as a VST3 and Audio Unit for macOS and Windows, with four additions. All four default to inactive, and with them inactive the signal path is bit-identical ...GitHub
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I guess I've known about mynoise.net for a while, but never really what you'd get if you donate. Thanks to a previous #Audiopub #Stream by@desertstar84@chatmosphere.club, I've gone and donated.
One feature is that, from the main index page which you get to from the top menu, you can enter 3 keywords, one in each box, and hit the surprise me button. When you do, it goes through and searches the database and layers together some pretty interesting results. Here's this one:
mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cust…
Create your own mixes on myNoise and share them with a URL.Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon (myNoise)
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I've developed an early version of a software that will allow you to uninstall those pesky programs and their components which present significant issues when trying to uninstall them. Version 0.5.0 of Wixen Uninstall will let you get rid of McAfee, Norton, AVG, and Avast as well as their other suites. It should be fully accessible with keyboard support. Check the notes and file issues.
github.com/PratikP1/Wixen-Unin…
Wixen Uninstaller removes stubborn, misbehaving Windows applications. It also removes the companion browsers, VPNs, and tune-up tools that linger after the official uninstaller claims to be done. I...GitHub
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Exploring the world of sounds and the passion behind myNoise, with Dr. Ir. Stéphane PigeonDr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon (myNoise)
Just wanted to share a project I've been actively working on with @morganlynn1992 and @Tamasg.
We're developing an open-source accessibility project for The Sims 4 with the goal of making the game independently playable for blind players.
It's still very much a work in progress, but it's already capable of exposing nearby objects and interactions, phone actions, inventories, gameplay notifications, purchases, object placement, and much more through an accessible interface.
If you're passionate about making mainstream games accessible, or if you've always wanted to play The Sims but couldn't because of its lack of accessibility, we'd love to hear from you. We're especially interested in people who would like to contribute whether through testing, modding, programming, documentation, or simply sharing ideas and feedback.
If this sounds interesting, feel free to reach out to any of us! We're excited to see where this project goes, and we'll have more to share as development continues.
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Bookamp — audiobook DSP plugin for Winamp: tempo/pitch/rate control, sound enhancement, bilingual accessible interface (EN/PL) - michaldziwisz/bookampGitHub
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar/commits/v1.0.0GitHub
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Full Changelog: https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar/commits/v1.0.0GitHub
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A cross-platform NVDA Remote client. Contribute to gozaltech/NVDARemoteCompanion development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I'm releasing the first version of #pubsplash. It's very early days, keep that in mind. There's way more to do and things that will undoubtedly need fixing, but if you wanna check it out, it's here: github.com/ironcross32/pubspla…
If there are any low vision users who check this out, I'd be interested to hear how the icon looks.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/ironcross32/pubsplash/commits/v0.1.0GitHub
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With the press of a button, millions of cars can be hacked. Professor Aaron Schulman and team discovered a universal vulnerability installed in more than 2,0...WIRED Investigations (YouTube)
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@ondrosik Podľa mňa to bude tým language filtrom vo friendica.
Spoľahlivo filtruje len príspevky, kde je nastavený jazyk.
Ja som tam mal skratku angličtiny obklopenú medzerníkom a preto mi odfiltroval angličtinu, čo bola moja chyba.
Tak že výsledok z tohoto experimentu je taký, že ak to aplikácie umožňujú, |mali by sme si správne nastaviť jazyk.
@ondrosik Okay, I've figured it out.
On the Account settings page of the friendica there are links to different areas such as Account, Two factor authentication, Additional features, Display and more. Select Addons within these links and then there are some expandable tab pannels on the resulting page. One of them is Language filter. Once this is expanded there is a text entry labelled as "Language selection". It's a comma seperated list of language code abbreviations I speak. I have put cs,en,sk into that box and my issue was that before fixing it today I had spaces there after each comma. And that was filtering english posts for me.
Now it's all fixed.
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Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.Steve Cruickshank (YouTube)
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This release adds the first public 64-bit Windows CLAP build, corrects a user-reported fade at the beginning of playback, and carries OptiLab Core's three-control workflow into an accessible, resiz...GitHub
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Free to download until 22 July. Vintage pinball machine sound effects featuring 210 recordings of flipper snaps, ball rolls, plunger launches, coin drops, and extended gameplay sequences from Bankshot, El Dorado, and Hurdy Gurdy models....SONNISS
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Live worldwide open microphones, a Locus Sonus initiative (LSLV, ESAAIX).locusonus.org
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OptiLab Core v1.1.0 This update does two main things: refreshes the REAPER JSFX version of OptiLab Core adds the first Winamp-compatible DSP build for Windows The REAPER plug-in still has the sam...GitHub
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The AI music generation tool Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as from the stock music libraries Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library Project, and podcasts via RSS feeds, according to a hacker who breached the company and shared data about Suno’s training libraries with 404 Media. The hacker was also able to access user information for hundreds of thousands of Suno’s customers, as well as Stripe payment information, they said.
The hacked data is a rare look at exactly how AI models and tools are built. Suno is one of the largest AI music generation tools on the internet, and has been the subject of several major lawsuits from the record industry, which accused the company of training on millions of copyrighted songs. As part of these legal proceedings, Suno previously admitted that it was trained on “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet,” which included a total of “tens of millions of recordings.” Suno has been making the argument that it is allowed to train on copyrighted works as fair use in those cases, one of which has been settled.
The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from. The Recording Industry Association of America accused Suno of ripping songs directly from YouTube; the hacked data seen by 404 Media confirms this.
The hacked material includes source code that appears to be from 2023 and 2024 that includes scraping instructions and details about the scope of at least some of the scraping. For example, the comments in one file note that they will pull from “genius_hq, youtube_music, freesound, jamendo, imp, deezer, ytm_tagged,” and that “non-music will be filtered out.” A file called “youtube_music” notes that at the time the file was last updated, it had ingested “2,013,545 music clips.” Another file contains comments about different datasets Suno had created, which included “113,879 hours of youtube_music,” “17,615 hours of genius_hq,” “410 hours of free sound,” “19,514 hours of imslp,” “3,726 hours of jamendo,” “62,117 hours of pond5_music,” “12,287 hours of deezer,” “152,162 hours of ytm_tagged,” and “103 hours of musescore_lyrics.” In total, this is at least decades worth of music.
Other code the hacker shared with 404 Media appeared to look specifically for vocals by searching specifically for acapella versions of songs on YouTube. The code also suggested that Suno was using proxies to scrape songs from YouTube through a company called Bright Data, which sells scraping tools, infrastructure, and data services. Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.
It is unclear from the files seen by 404 Media exactly how Suno scraped files from each of the other platforms. Pond5 is a stock music and sound effects library owned by Shutterstock in which customers pay to access songs individually or can access a limited number of songs per month with a subscription. Pond5 claims it has 2.5 million music tracks; Suno’s data suggests that it scraped a substantial amount of the entire library. Genius, meanwhile, does not host songs directly on its website but allows Apple Music subscribers to play music through the website or to play samples of songs through Apple Music.
In one of its lawsuit filings, Suno said that its “training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet, abiding by paywalls, password protections, and the like, combined with similarly available text descriptions,” and that it was “constructed by showing the program tens of millions of instances of different kinds of recordings gathered from publicly available sources.”
“For Suno specifically, this process involved copying decades worth of the world’s most popular sound recordings and then ingesting those copies into Suno’s AI models so they can generate outputs that imitate the qualities of genuine human sound recordings,” the RIAA wrote in its lawsuit against Suno. “And to make matters worse, Suno obtained those copies in the first instance by unlawfully ‘stream ripping’ them from the popular streaming platform YouTube, and circumventing the technological measures designed specifically to prevent such unauthorized copying.”
In a statement, a Suno spokesperson said “As we have stated in public filings and disclosures, Suno’s AI models have been trained on publicly available music files and related metadata accessible on third-party websites on the open Internet. In November of 2025, we determined that Suno had been the subject of a limited security incident that was quickly contained. At the time, we immediately conducted an investigation and verified that the incident primarily involved outdated source code that is no longer in use at Suno and that no sensitive personal information was compromised. Importantly, Suno does not have access to customers’ full credit card numbers in Stripe.”
“Based on the limited nature of the customer information believed to be involved, we determined that individual notifications were not warranted under applicable privacy laws,” the Suno spokesperson added. Suno also sent a training data disclosure required under California law.
The hacker, ellie.191, told 404 Media they breached the company by hacking an individual employee using the Shai-Hulud worm, a supply chain attack that allowed hackers to harvest GitHub and cloud service credentials. They said they also accessed Suno’s customer list, which included customers’ emails and/or phone numbers and Stripe payment details, depending on what they used to login. The hacker provided a sample of some of the customers, some of whom confirmed to 404 Media they had used their phone number to sign up for Suno and said they were never notified of a breach. The hacker told 404 Media they had no specific motivation for hacking Suno and said “I like to hack anything and everything.”
404 Media has previously reported on leaked materials that showed Nvidia and Runway ML scraped YouTube en masse. For the most part, AI companies no longer deny training on copyrighted materials and instead make the argument that they are allowed to scrape artists’ work under fair use carveouts in copyright law.
Last month, The Atlantic reported on several music databases that are widely used in AI training, consisting of millions of tracks: “Three of the datasets I found are distributed as a list of links to songs on YouTube or Spotify. AI developers download the actual audio using tools that automate the job, some of which allow developers to bypass logins, advertisements, and mechanisms that might earn money or subscribers for creators. Such tools violate the terms of service of these platforms. (The fourth dataset, the Free Music Archive collection, is distributed with MP3s.),” the author of The Atlantic piece wrote. It is unclear whether Suno used any of these datasets.
The Suno spokesperson added that the company has worked to try to prevent users from generating songs that sound like existing songs. One of the contentions of several of the lawsuits was that Suno could be used to output songs that are nearly indistinguishable from existing works. “Our goal has always been to help people create original new music, not replicate someone else’s. That’s why we build our models around what we call ‘Original Creation, By Design.’ For example, we intentionally do not use artist names as a category of training metadata because we want our models to help people create brand new songs, not music that replicates other artists’ existing work,” the spokesperson said. “We believe artists deserve both new opportunities and strong protections. That's why we've invested in safeguards designed to help prevent impersonation, and other forms of misuse, while continuing to develop technologies for AI identification.”
Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of Suno, said on a podcast last year that he believes the “majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
Putting fair use to the test.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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