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This is cool. But the name is a bit misleading. I have the same 0.25x - 2x speed range on Youtube anyhow. What it adds is the looping capability. So this is rat
by TooCreative 7y ago
This is cool. But the name is a bit misleading. I have the same 0.25x - 2x speed range on Youtube anyhow. What it adds is the looping capability. So this is rather LoopTube then SlowTube.
By the way: It would be nice if something like this would be available with better sound quality for slow speeds. I am now half way through listening to this at 0.25:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjjfSESoC4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjjfSESoC4s
With better sound quality this would be pretty epic ...
- waiseristy 7y agoThe looping feature is a nice addition
- felipellrocha 7y agoImo, not everyone knows they can slow things down on youtube, and "slowtube" transmit the idea they're trying to build much better than "looptube" despite it being slightly inaccurate.
- aasasd 7y agoIn my experience VLC is pretty good at slowing sound down. It can also play videos straight from Youtube.
- TooCreative 7y agoTrying it now. At 0.3x it also has these weird ripples in the sound as if it just loops very short sequences. There must be a better way!
- aasasd 7y agoThere are very specialized filters for extreme stretching, e.g. ‘PaulStretch’ is popular among the ‘800%’ stretch-meme crowd. But it adds a distinct ethereal quality. Audacity seems to have this filter, and might be alright at stretching in general. Command-line `sox` also does slowing down better than ffmpeg at speeds like 0.7, but dunno about 0.3.
- TooCreative 7y agoInteresting. Just tried PaulStretch. While it sounds more "logical" without the strange micro-repeats, it takes all of the punch out of the music. On youtube, at x0.25 a drum hit goes from KABOUM! to something like: KAKAKABOBOBOBUMUMUM While with PaulStretch, it goes to something like: FFHHAHAHCHCHOHUHMHH No kick, no pressure behind the lower frequencies anymore. It sounds like it is far far in the distance.
- aasasd 7y agoSounds about right, that's why PaulStretch is typically used to create otherworldly ‘ambient’ soundscapes. Something like Brian Eno turned back into proper Eno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc
- elwell 7y ago> With better sound quality this would be pretty epic ... Yeah I was hoping it had some kind of aesthetically advanced interpolation on the audio.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoYou can loop on YouTube, at least in the browser. Just right click on the player and select "Loop".
- waiseristy 7y agoYou can loop the entire video, not sections of it
- rozap 7y agoI built a similar web thing a while back, except it allowed real-time arbitrary slowing down, and at high quality. The issue was that it was a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen, given that it ripped the audio from youtube. It works well and is all web based, but I'm too scared to release it to beyond just my friends and myself. The options that won't make lawyers get involved are limited, which is possibly why op did it this way.
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