As long as there’s no mp3directcut https://mpesch3.de/) clone for Opus, the format lacks non-destructive fast editing. And while it can cut and edit raw aac, it works a lot better with mp3.
Non destructive editing is more important with the new formats, because they compress to smaller files and cause greater problems when you unpack and recompress them.
Because it’s cheaper to run DAB than FM and running both with the same content costs too much. But for range, DAB is even worse. The neighboring country’s stations here already stop working five miles behind the border. FM covers 50 miles and since local AM transmission have stopped, in my car I can listen to stations 300 miles away. It sounds like crap but it’s still usable and I tune in often. For sports coverage it was good enough and I miss the times where it was possible to listen to full games while driving. The FM replacement doesn’t cover as much area and there’s no consistent internet coverage to listen via app (and it’s illegal to play with your phone while driving, so once the app cuts out, you can’t restart it)
It depends on how small. I’m working with really small (like less than 5mb per upload) and use a FastAPI endpoint on my API to receive the file and then have other Python code save it (or reject it)
Back then swatch really blew it by not synching the zero with UTC. If the days had been UTC based, this might have taken off. This way, it was just a joke and that’s why it died quickly.
I vaguely recall there being a project that essentially used the Swatch algorithm, but switched to UTC, and removed the Swatch name for trademark reasons.
I wish I could find it now, since it did exactly what we're discussing.
I suspect it was intentionally trying to be free from any association/baggage connected to traditional time. Since the 'beat' time has no relation to anything physical/relate-able other than day-length, why bother keeping the baggage of UTC?
Ultimately Swatch Internet Time is tied to UTC, since it's Zurich time and not universal or entirely disconnected from the past.
If the time had been entirely separate or arbitrary that argument would hold, but the time was a normal "24 hour clock" that synced up to the standard day rotation, but centered on Zurich.
Because of that, the choice not to use UTC, but instead to UTC+1 meant that to do a calculation of UTC, which is the standard time measurement for earth, you had to subtract 41.6 beats, which was silly.
The author mentioned using polish translations of English books, so he already knew, at least roughly, what the book is about. This way, reading and listening in the target language makes a lot of sense.
It’s the same when watching foreign TV. Having subtitles on in the same language that is spoken is really useful, you learn more than only reading or only listening.
Watching BBC Iplayer via VPN is hard, mainly because it’s in the interest of the BBC to avoid eating the cost of serving the world for free. And VPN traffic is easy to spot, if you’re looking for it. I’m assuming the BBC invests a lot of resources to fence of non paying foreign viewers.
But this is a BBC specific problem, most of the other European geofencing is quite weak and getting access to most other public broadcasters works just fine with a proper VPN.
Azimutt is an online-only, non free tool. If you don’t want to publish your design or need to analyze someone else’s design, this is a no-go for me. (Skimming it it promises to be able to work only in the browser if you want to, personally I wouldn’t risk it)
Check out https://schemaspy.org/, which creates a documentation locally, if the original project here doesn’t work for you.
There’s already too many movies and people get bored watching more of the same. If thanks to AI there’s a flood of cheaper mediocre movies content it could kill the remaining excitement.
You can choose your favorite actors/characters/avatars and have the AI re-render the story featuring these people. Watch Lord of the Rings with all the hobbits replaced by Bratz dolls or your favorite K-pop girl band.
Non destructive editing is more important with the new formats, because they compress to smaller files and cause greater problems when you unpack and recompress them.
This is why mp3 still is a good format for 2024.