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   Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 23:53:34 JST Fish in the percolator
   god bless apple for the 'play stereo as mono' option
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 23:58:54 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @lain the "spatialize stereo" feature is kinda nice for normalizing things center-ish without going full mono
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     Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 23:59:21 JST Fish in the percolator

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     @why oh i should try that. I'm just using 'play as mono' when there's another youtuber who put everything into the left channel by accident
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:01:40 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @lain there's no saving that. spatialize just fixes bad stereo mixes by making it sound like 2 speakers in front of you, as opposed to two speakers directly in your ears
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:02:52 JST SuperDicq

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     @lain@lain.com I can do this too.
     
     Just use pacmd to create a remap sink with mono,mono channel map.
     
     pacmd load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=mono master=<alsa_output> channels=2 channel_map=mono,mono

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     Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:02:59 JST Fish in the percolator

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     @SuperDicq dang that's so easy
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:04:59 JST SuperDicq

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     @lain@lain.com Yeah, every GNU/Linux user knows pacmd basic usage, right? Right?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:08:49 JST SuperDicq

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     @lain@lain.com I do have to say once you execute this command you seemlessly switch between these two sinks in your favorite DEs graphical audio manager be it KDE or GNOME or whatever.
     
     If a distro included this as a default sink it would be just as easy as on MacOS.

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     Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:10:38 JST Fish in the percolator

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     @SuperDicq well that and $2.25 will get you a trip on the miami metro rail
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 15:02:35 JST 翠星石

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     @lain Absolutely degenerate.
     
     There is a lot of free software that will downmix half channel stereo or stereo to mono, for example mpv has that option, plus ALSA can downmix to mono and of course there's much more.
     
     Of course, instead of enjoying freedom, you surrender your freedom to apple.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 15:03:01 JST 翠星石

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     @lain Absolutely degenerate.
     
     There is a lot of free software that will play half channel stereo as mono, for example mpv has that option, plus ALSA can downmix to mono and of course there's much more.
     
     Of course, instead of enjoying freedom, you surrender your freedom to apple.
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     You Get Glee (get@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 15:16:27 JST You Get Glee

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     @Suiseiseki @lain i can't believe lain would do this, it's over
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     sepples (sepples@pone.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 19:44:57 JST sepples

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     @Forestofenchantment @Suiseiseki @lain
     MPV is great.
     It's 2024, use pipewire.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 19:44:57 JST 翠星石

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     @sepples @lain Pipewire is bloat - you should just use pure ALSA.
     
     Ah yes, there's a nazi who is so hopeless they they don't realize pulseaudio goes on top of ALSA and any OSS support is usually via a OSS-ALSA translation layer.
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 19:44:58 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @Suiseiseki @lain MPV is a convoluted piece of shite. At least use software a sane person could easily use, like quicktime multimedia player.
     
     (Also, ALSA is unironic fucking dogwater. Use OSS or PulseAudio instead).
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 20:11:22 JST 翠星石

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     @sepples No idea as I've never need a use for anything like that, as I don't usually have mics to listen to me on my computers and when I do, I just adjust the mic to fix any noise issue.
     
     ALSA supports plugins, so it's a matter of adding a noise suppression plugin in addition to the current ones; https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html
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     sepples (sepples@pone.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 20:11:23 JST sepples

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     @Suiseiseki

     Genuine question, how do I achieve this with nothing but ALSA