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nartho commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp   old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
BrokrnAlgorithm · a month ago
I'm a musician, but am also pretty amused by this anti ai wave.

There was recently a post referencing aphex twin and old school idm and electronic music stuff and i can't help bein reminded how every new tech kit got always demonized until some group of artists came along and made it there own. Even if its just creative prompting, or perhaps custom trained models, someday someone will come along and make a genuine artistic viable piece of work using ai.

I'd pay for some app which allows be to dump all my ableton files into, train some transformer on it, just to synthesize new stuff out of my unfinished body of work. It will happen and all lines will get blurred again, as usual.

nartho · a month ago
The issue is not so much an artist that will use it as a tool, even though there is much to say about it, it's the hundred of thousands of people with no interest in music whatsoever, that will flood the platforms in order to make a quick buck.
nartho commented on Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need   linuxdaw.org/... · Posted by u/prmoustache
chaosprint · a month ago
If you don’t wanna use a daw on linux you are welcomed to try https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
nartho · a month ago
Sure, as soon as you tell me how I'm supposed to record and mix a whole band with instruments with Glicol
nartho commented on Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing   about.fb.com/news/2025/12... · Posted by u/ushakov
5-0 · 2 months ago
I suppose that depends on the use case.

For mash-ups specifically, using yt-dlp to download music and split into stems with Demucs, using the UVR frontend, before importing into a DAW is effortless. The catch is that you can't expect to get OK-ish separation on anything other than vocals and "other", which really isn't a problem for mash-ups.

https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui

nartho · 2 months ago
IS there any DAW plugins that do that ?
nartho commented on Stop Slopware   stopslopware.net/... · Posted by u/bradley_taunt
simonsarris · 2 months ago
> if you’re doing this for your own learning: you will learn better without AI.

This is not the distinction I would want to tell newcomers. AI is extremely good for finding out what the most common practices are for all kinds of situations. That's a powerful learning tool. Besides, learning how to use a tool well (one that we can expect professionals to use) is part of learning.

Now most common practices and best practices are two different things. They are often the same, but not always. That's the major caveat for many fields, but if you can keep it in mind, you're going to do OK.

nartho · 2 months ago
It is a great learning tool for people who are willing to learn and put in the time and effort. Ask good questions, double check everything, read documentation and make sure they understand everything before they move on. It's a tremendous tool if used correctly. People who just hit tab or past everything Claude generates will get worse. The benefits of "the old way" is that even the people who didn't want to put in the effort where making some improvement if only by friction and time spent.
nartho commented on Stop Slopware   stopslopware.net/... · Posted by u/bradley_taunt
nartho · 2 months ago
This is a bit more complex that you make it sound, and I'm wondering this is on purpose.

- Submission based magazines, who pay their writers, like Clarkesworld for example, are being flooded with LLM generated submissions. Those have been automated by people who hit every magazines multiple times with the hope that one makes it through and make a few bucks. This made the work of reviewer absolute hell, their volume of work multiplied by 10.

- The same is true with music, fake bands are being created and the music submitted to streaming platform with the hope that it will generate some kind of passive income

- Etsy shops are absolutely filled to the brim with bad AI slop, the whole platform became barely usable anymore

The same thing is absolutely true with software. You make is sound like it's a few hobbyist that are using AI tools to solve problems and that evil engineers are gatekeeping them because they want to be the only one mastering the arcane arts, but that's overly simplistic and frankly, intellectually dishonest, even if you set aside the fact that at some point one of those vibe coders is going the bite more that they can chew and expose their users, the vast majority of them is looking at making money easily, that means flooding the market with subpar software in hope to generate some money. Just browse a few of the vibe coders subreddits or discord channel to see that it's mostly what is being discussed.

And, I know I'm not the only one that noticed that over reliance on LLMs has some bad consequences on people, especially juniors. Yes it can be used properly in a productive way, but a lot of people don't bother. Make fun of people who are worried about it all you want, but for all the good gen AI will bring, there absolutely will be an enshitification of about everything. I won't even talk about the golden opportunity it is for scammers and malicious agents. I don't know if it'll be worth it, possibly ? But there will be a price to pay.

nartho commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment   blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
foxheadman · 2 months ago
I used to hear about COSMIC and think "Glad to see more choice, but I doubt this will go anywhere".

I wanted a Sway-like experience but with a desktop experience, and so tried it.

It's surprisingly good: a DE with powerful enough window tiling.

It's now my daily driver.

Since they're backed by a sole company, I'm still not convinced on their longevity, but remain hopeful!

I'm not familiar with Pop OS, which I now realise is what the post is.

nartho · 2 months ago
I like tiling a lot more than I like floating windows. Cosmic is my daily driver and is awesome. I just wish it had a bit more customization options, I don't want to spend days rummaging through wikis like with hyprland but having a bit more control over it would be nice, not a deal breaker though
nartho commented on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max   openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-... · Posted by u/hansonw
syntaxing · 3 months ago
I rarely used Codex compared to Claude because it was extremely slow in GitHub copilot . Like maybe 2-5X slower than Claude Sonnet. I really wish they just made their models faster than “better”
nartho · 3 months ago
Have you tried Mistral ? Definitely one of the fastest models
nartho commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change   neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
foobarian · 3 months ago
> Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux these days with Steam+Proton.

This alone is the last frontier IMO. It's the only reason I still run Win11 on a gaming PC with a big Nvidia. Take that away and their marketshare will tank.

nartho · 3 months ago
I wouldn't call it the last frontier. Gaming works well enough for me to not have to worry about.

I am, however, obligated to keep a Windows partition around because I do music production. If there are good DAWs that run natively on Linux, almost all plugins won't run on Linux. Everything plugin that runs as standalone or anything similar is guaranteed to not work on Linux.

I am thinking about getting a Mac mini for music production only, seems it's probably the lesser of 2 evils

nartho commented on The grim truth behind the Pied Piper (2020)   bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/Anon84
IAmBroom · 3 months ago
Quote from the article that you claim doesn't mention it:

> In fact, Udolph found that the family names common in Hamelin at the time show up with surprising frequency in the areas of Uckermark and Prignitz, near Berlin, that he locates as the centre of the migration.

Maybe try reading the whole article before condemning it, instead of just the first couple of paragraphs.

nartho · 3 months ago
Is Berlin in Poland ?
nartho commented on Rouille – Rust Programming, in French   github.com/bnjbvr/rouille... · Posted by u/mihau
melicerte · 3 months ago
I've notice there is "merde" method which is available in the example like in https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/blob/7e9523fe24026bff1a3a7...

Merde is an alias for "calisse" and "oups" , see https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/blob/7e9523fe24026bff1a3a7...

nartho · 3 months ago
I'm partial to crate -> cagette

u/nartho

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