After BookAmp comes BookBar — the same features, this time for foobar2000: tempo adjustment, pitch adjustment, both at once, a limiter, and audio smoothing with filters.
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar/releases/latest
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Michał Dziwisz
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@JonathanMosen@caneandable.social People can talk all they want — the work goes on.
A friend of mine, a sailing enthusiast, came up with the idea for a system that would allow a blind person to steer a boat or even a ship. The hardware has already been built and it works. Some grant funding was secured for that part, but there was not enough money left to develop the mobile apps.
I am now building two fully native apps, one for iOS and one for Android, while testing them alongside the hardware prototype.
This is going to be something special. It will probably make only a small group of enthusiasts happy, but it feels great to work on something that can help make someone’s dreams come true.
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@m0bi@mastodon.com.pl w tym tekście jest ciekawe zdanie: "Świat, w którym agenty umieją wszystko, może być światem wygodnym. Ale może też być światem, w którym człowiek traci sprawczość." No cóż. Bez AI jeśli jakaś aplikacja była dla mojego czytnika ekranu niedostępna, mogłem pisać do autora z prośbą o naprawę. Autor zrobił, albo olał. Teraz jeśli kod jest na Githubie, otwieram Codexa, piszę odpowiedniego prompta, czekam, dostaję poprawiony interface, jeśli są problemy, iterujemy dalej. Jeśli nie mam pod ręką nikogo widzącego, cykam fotkę tego, co mnie interesuje, wrzucam do LLMa i dostaję opis. I tak można wymieniać. I tak, jak ktoś kiedyś wyciągnie wtyczkę stracę dużo, cała nadzieja w Chińczykach że nakradną tyle ile się da i zrobią otwarte modele. :)
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@m0bi@mastodon.com.pl @PabloveSky@mastodon.com.pl Z tym pełna zgoda. Generalnie jak poczta jest na czymś poza Google czy MS to zaczynają się problemy. Niby działa, niby większość maili dochodzi, ale nagle się okazuje, że któreś jednak nie bez wyraźnego powodu i próbując kontaktu z jednymi lub drugimi odbijasz się od ściany.
I just had a situation where, without #Codex, I would have been completely stuck.
I have a single server hosting several projects. It’s good? Yes. It’s cheap. :-) But it has no backup, so I end up testing in production. I locked it down pretty tightly—for example, SSH access is only possible through my tailnet. Then I got the idea to configure an additional VPN, which turned out to be a bad move.
Tailscale disconnected, and I was left without any access to the machine. The only rescue option was the noVNC console, which is completely inaccessible to me.
Codex managed to get in through that inaccessible web console, rebooted the server, fixed the settings in rescue mode, rebooted again, and everything is working perfectly now. The whole thing took about an hour.
Open Source + AI = an amazing combination!
Here’s an example from today. I recently bought two YubiKey devices. After installing Yubico Authenticator, it turned out the accessibility is… so-so. You can get some things done, but it’s definitely not comfortable to use. It turns out the app’s source code is available on GitHub. I downloaded it, let Codex loose on it, and within an hour it had fixed the most important issues — and now it’s working on the smaller ones. Of course, I’ll share the results of this work with the maintainers in the form of a PR so others can benefit too.
So go ahead and keep hating on AI if you want — I’d rather build things. :)
Is anyone crazy enough to develop #Winamp plugins in 2026? Yes—me.
Together with a friend, I built BookAmp, a plugin that should appeal to anyone who listens to content that needs to be sped up or made easier on the ears.
You can adjust playback speed, pitch, or both at the same time. It also includes a multi-stage limiter with adjustable settings, plus filters that improve clarity. Fans of the classic radio sound will probably notice a few similarities to some of the biggest players on the market. ;)
BookAmp is open source and available here:
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookamp/
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@emassey0135@caneandable.social @JonathanMosen@caneandable.social @jscholes@dragonscave.space @simon@procrastodon.net A friend of mine has been developing an email client for over 20 years, refining every aspect of it. If something can run faster, it will run faster. Sorting, email rendering—everything is optimized as much as possible.
I once asked him, “Maybe you could make it accessible?”
His answer was: “No, because standard Windows controls wouldn’t let me render things like the message list or message preview fast enough.”
So the art of optimization can be a mixed blessing.
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@miki@dragonscave.space @jscholes@dragonscave.space @cachondo@defcon.social @matt@toot.cafe @alexhall@mastodon.social This works when the stations use the same PI code in their accompanying RDS signal. In that case, the radio receiver can continue following the programme even when its broadcast frequency changes.
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@x0@dragonscave.space You asked for it, you got it! The new version now works on both x86 and x64 architectures. Download it here:
https://github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar/releases/latest
Be sure to let me know how it works for you!
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@m0bi@mastodon.com.pl @PabloveSky@mastodon.com.pl Oprócz Thunderbirda jest jeszcze Becky! rozwijana od 1996 roku i tam oauth też działa, przynajmniej dla firmowych kont od MS, skrzynki na outlook.com nie mam, ale powinno też ruszyć. Minus Becky! Jest płatna i ciężko będzie z zakupem klucza poza Japonią, ja się jeszcze załapałem na czasy, gdy Kagi działało i dało się kupić.
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com I don’t like this, because it discriminates against a specific technology. I can understand removing software from such a platform if it does something illegal or if there are other objective reasons for doing so, but in my view, AI is a tool like any other.
If you don’t want to use it, then don’t — I fully respect that. But at the same time, let others who do use it get on with their lives.
It would be like someone blocking assistive technologies from accessing certain software while citing security concerns. And it’s not as though we haven’t seen that happen before, is it?