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Long before home computers were affordable, in a magazine for electronics hobbyists, I saw a design for an analogue circuit that could, it was claimed, remove a
by bloak 6y ago
Long before home computers were affordable, in a magazine for electronics hobbyists, I saw a design for an analogue circuit that could, it was claimed, remove advertising and DJ waffling from radio broadcasts. I think it just looked for the frequent short periods of silence that occur in speech so it can't have been very reliable. But it had a certain low-tech beauty.
- sneakymichael 6y agoI once had an ‘Intempo Rebel’ radio[1], about a decade ago, which had the selling point that it would record songs, from radio, as MP3, without any ads or DJs. It actually worked, from what I remember. It was magic to me at the time, and …still is. Edit: it appears that its original name was PopCatcher [2], by a company with the same name [1] https://www.cnet.com/reviews/intempo-rebel-review/ https://www.cnet.com/reviews/intempo-rebel-review/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCatcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopCatcher