Re: Search and remove audio sections

On 2020-11-17 21:40, Jeff Learman wrote:
> How many is "a bunch"?  Unless you have hundreds, or unless there's 
> some
> real obvious audible flag to indicate the ads, it'd be easier to find a
> good simple GUI audio editor that lets you simply select and delete the
> ads.

Certainly that would make removal of the ads easier, but finding them -
if the podcast files are random extracts of longer files (ie the ads
may be anywhere at all in them, not eg always around the - say - 4 mins
in point, is still going to be tricky.

Assuming that one can near-instantly id something as jingle or ad if one
clicks play at some point on a timeline, one's still going to have to do
that manually maybe 30 times (ie every 20 seconds) in a ten-minute file.


It might still be easier to use a script to generate (say) 2-second 
snips
of each source file at 20-25 second intervals, then concatenate them and
listen to a set to find out if any of them seem to contain ads/jingles.


> My guess is that this really isn't going to be easy to do, and you'll
> have to spend the time to audit the results of trials to see how many
> files they worked on, and in the end it'll take a lot of time.

I think that too.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own