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Extreme audio stretching

Intosia — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:54:36 +0000

A couple of months ago i was looking at audio stretching tools, and i came across Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch. A niffty little tool to stretch audio completely beyond normal use (unlimited stretch amount). You can listen to audio in realtime or render it to a wave file. Its also possible to 'freeze' the sound, which can result in some cool sound effects.

Here is a small test i did. The stretching works best on String/Synth like sounds, that are 'smooth'.

This is the original sound, which is 25 seconds long (taken from the NeoTokyo trailer).

This is the stretched version, now 8 minutes long!

Compiling Newspost usenet poster (on ARM)

Intosia — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:49:39 +0000

Newspost is a commandline tool for posting files to Usenet (im using it on my Sheevaplug). Since Debian removed this package from the (ARM architecture) repository compiling from source is the only option. This gave the following error:

utils.h:29: error: conflicting types for âgetlineâ

To fix this, open '/usr/include/stdio.h' with a texteditor.

Find the following block of code:

extern _IO_ssize_t getline (char **__restrict __lineptr,
size_t *__restrict __n,
FILE *__restrict __stream) __wur;

Change the word 'getline' to 'parseline'.

extern _IO_ssize_t parseline (char **__restrict __lineptr,
size_t *__restrict __n,
FILE *__restrict __stream) __wur;

Save the file and compile again! Dont forget to change it back after compiling!

Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 (x64)

Intosia — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:48:46 +0000

Installing Photoshop CS2 on Windows 7 (64bit) gave me the following error when starting Photoshop:

Your Adobe Photoshop user name, organization or serial number is missing or invalid. The application cannot continue and must now exit.

Fix this by uninstalling Photoshop, and reinstalling it to the following location: C:\progra~2\adobe

Photoshop now installs correctly!