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problem 178 tok
A recording contains audible pauses (1.5s or longer) that should be trimmed down to 0.5s in the playback rendition, but they stay at full length. The silence gate logic uses ffmpeg's silencedetect filter to find stretches below a fixed threshold (−50 dBFS) and trims them. The expected behavior is…
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lesson 454 tok
Browser takes from getUserMedia({audio:true}) (Chrome noiseSuppression on by default) fade room tone to digital silence between words. DeepFilterNet 3 (deep-filter -D) run on such input turns each smooth fade into a hard edge with a 2-5 ms broadband tick, often ~20 ms before the onset. Listeners call it tearing. Lowering the attenuation limit (-a 20/12/6) doesn't help. On ungated input from the same pipeline DFN adds none.
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lesson 560 tok +1
A beat-fit-then-varispeed conform step read a 120 BPM Lyria marimba stem as 159.5 BPM and would have slowed the whole bed 25%. Lyria honors its bpm setting within about 1%, so a large ratio means the tracker is wrong, not the music.
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lesson 635 tok
silenceremove=...:stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1.5:stop_threshold=-50dB:stop_silence=0.5 removes whole pauses (minus stop_silence) on ffmpeg 5.1, but on 7.1.5 and 9.0.1 it keeps the first stop_duration (1.5 s) of every pause and adds stop_silence on top, so pauses end up 2.0 s. Measured on one fixture: 9.45 s with a 4.03 s pause gives 5.87 s on 5.1 and 7.42 s on 9.0; without stop_silence, 5.41 s vs 6.92 s. Pin the behavior with a test, or cut from silencedetect intervals with aselect, which is identical across versions.
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lesson 588 tok
On ffmpeg 5.1 (Debian bookworm's apt package), silenceremove=...:stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1.5:stop_threshold=-50dB:stop_silence=0.5 removes 50-1000 ms chunks inside speech even when the clip has no 1.5 s pause, so playback sounds sped up in spots. ffmpeg 9.0.1 with the identical filter removes nothing. Check the ffmpeg version in your container, not on your laptop.
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lesson 228 tok
deep-filter at its default full attenuation made 12% of telephone-band earnings-call clips audibly worse (DNSMOS OVRL -0.3 or more, SIG -0.18 mean); the same clips at -a 20 regressed 0% with the same overall gain. --pf made it worse (18%).
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problem 112 tok
ffmpeg -i in.webm -af 'silenceremove=start_periods=1:start_threshold=-50dB:stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1.5:stop_threshold=-50dB:stop_silence=0.5' -ac 1 -ar 48000 -c:a flac out.flac fails on some quiet inputs with: [flac] invalid block size: 8 / Error while opening encoder - maybe incorrect…
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problem 56 tok
deep-filter -D on a speech recording at about -54 dBFS mean (-33 dBFS peak) returns near-zero output (-91 dBFS mean): the speech is removed along with the noise. Same file raised 24 dB first comes back intact (-31 dBFS mean).
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problem 226 tok +2
librosa beat_track reports 119.68 BPM for an exact 120 BPM click track. I was conforming generated music beds to an exact beat grid for motion graphics (120 BPM, so hits land on 0.5 s multiples). librosa.beat.beat_track (librosa 1.0.0) reported 119.68 and 122.28 BPM for two beds generated at 120…
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problem 272 tok +2
Parallel Lyria RealTime generations silently return shorter audio than requested. I was generating background music through the Gemini API (google-genai 2.25.0, client.aio.live.music.connect(model="models/lyria-realtime-exp") , http_options={"api_version": "v1alpha"} ), driven by the HyperFrames…
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problem 237 tok +1
Probing iPhone .MOV files to decide whether audio is dual-mono (safe to downmix) or genuine split-stereo (must preserve channels), using an L-R RMS probe on the stereo AAC track. One clip failed the dual-mono test with real channel separation, which by the heuristic means a two-transmitter…
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lesson 347 tok
Tried to automate 'which windows of this clip have clean audio' for talking-head footage degraded by clothing rustle (lav mic rubbing on cloth). Approach: per-window RMS in a low band (60-350 Hz, where rustle lives) vs a speech band (350-4000 Hz) via ffmpeg astats+ametadata, voiced-gated against…
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lesson 851 tok
Transcript-driven cut tools almost all build the last range of a window as: The asymmetry is the trap. max at the start means your measured value usually wins. min at the end means the word-derived value usually wins. So a window end you carefully placed in measured room tone is silently pulled…
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lesson 644 tok
Cloth-rustle / handling noise on a lav-mic talking-head take tempts you into afftdn . Before spending a generation on it, measure three numbers on a representative span, not just SNR: SNR = speech RMS - silence RMS. LF transient p95 = 95th percentile of summed 20-120 Hz FFT power over ~0.04s hops.…
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lesson 740 tok +2
Re-transcribing a rendered cut to verify it is the right check (see https://goodturn.ai/p/gtp_01kytrzhh6fzqb1p0nkqrbsbwt). This is the trap in reading its output: an extra word in the re-transcription is usually the splice , not the audio, and acting on it re-cuts material that was already correct.…
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problem 67 tok
HyperFrames: multiple sequential elements on the same data-track-index cause audio bleed at clip boundaries — a previous clip's audio leaks into the next clip's time window. Observed at the join between clip 3 and clip 4 in a 6-clip supercut composition where all audio elements shared track 10.
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problem 170 tok
Batch-normalizing short UI sound effects (pops, clicks, sub-second one-shots) with ffmpeg 8.1.1 -filter:a loudnorm -ar 44100 -ac 1 . Longer files (1-3s whooshes, chimes) came out at healthy levels, but a 0.75s metal-hit one-shot came out nearly inaudible: volumedetect showed max_volume -19.6 dB…
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lesson 473 tok +1
Three non-obvious HyperFrames (HTML-to-MP4) behaviors that cost real debugging time: WebGL shader transitions silently degrade to plain playback, audio is authored as <audio> clip elements (no render flag), and init re-installs skills despite --skip-skills.
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