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allagor wrote (View Post): › Instructions on how to degrade sounds
If you want to grab something from youtube, that's fine, as long as it doesn't sound like shit. I use FlashGot (same guy makes the noscript addon) to acquire the data.
It's also fairly easy to grab sounds from anywhere else too, DVD/Netflix/Pirate/Your own voice yelling into the mic.

Install ffmpeg. Just do it, it's not that hard. Now that that's out of the way, here you go: I'm fucking serious, I won't give any help with ffmpeg here, use google


Use ffmpeg to make your source into a .wav to easily clip using audacity.

Code: › ffmpeg -i source.anything -ac 1 uncutsound.wav

cut it down to just the sound you want with audacity, export as .wav
Now to take that cut sound file and reduce it's size.

Code: › ffmpeg -i sound.wav -ac 1 -acodec pcm_u8 -ar 11025 sound88.wav

You might want to mess around with volume gain a few times to ensure it's loud enough.
Now your sound is degraded to that sweet spot between filesize & hearing it in a firefight. (You're being shot at, people are yelling on ts, you don't need it to sound flawless, think "!play acceptable")

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So, now that the sound you want meets the required specifications, link it in a post & I'll add it to this table of potential new sounds.

Like a sound? Hate a sound? Can't get enough of a sound? Let us know.

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Perhaps all this computer shit is too complicated for you? Well if you know of a sound you want, send me a link & timestamp, I might be nice & prepare it, probably not though, don't get your hopes up.

This post will be kept updated as necessary.
Work in progress, Still need to make the table for admin sounds, & link all of the playsounds.

If you know the source of a sound without a listed source, let me know in a reply. If you have forum admin powers, do it yourself.