Surround sound test files for every audio format
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But suppose that simply isn't the case, and somebody just created the files and let them go. Is it problematic for there to be no license? The phrasing of your question (asking what the license is, rather than asking whether there is a license) suggests possibly yes. Genuinely curious. Should things that legitimately lack a license be treated as if they have an infinitely permissive license or an infinitely restrictive license or something in between?
> As of November 2022, the Berne Convention has been ratified by 181 states out of 195 countries in the world, most of which are also parties to the Paris Act of 1971.[4][5]
> The Berne Convention introduced the concept that protection exists the moment a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work and to any derivative works, unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them or until the copyright expires. A creator need not register or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the convention. It also enforces a requirement that countries recognize rights held by the citizens of all other parties to the convention.
With that said, the US does require the author to have completed the registration process before filing a lawsuit over copyright infringement [2]. I say "completed the registration process" because the US Copyright Office might refuse the registration, but the author will be entitled to sue infringers afterward regardless of the outcome.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding, a copyrightable work is "fixed" (and can be copyrighted) the moment it is first recorded somewhere other than in someone's memory. A computer drive is a physical medium. Even if the record of the work gets destroyed, the copyright on the work continues to exist. Whoever fixes the work is the author.
It's not clear-cut, though. (Copyright is messy in general, but I digress.) Situation A: If you think of a song, never write any of it down, but sing it to me while I record you with your permission, I am the author of the recording. Am I the author of the song? I don't know, though a court might. Situation B: If you write the song down before I do, then I think you would get copyright to the song and hence exclusive rights to any recording I make of it (the recording being a derivative work). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that in Situation B you would be able to retroactively prohibit me from distributing the recording or changing it in anyway. If you had written the song down before I started recording your singing then you would be able to prohibit me from making the recording in the first place.
In addition to copyright law, there is also a body of law called "authors' rights" (originally the French term droit d’auteur). Authors' rights have overlap with copyright but apply in additional situations and give authors additional... rights. Authors' rights apply to unrecorded performances, not just to fixed works [1]. In the previous paragraph, you would have authors' rights in both situation A and situation B.
There is also a body of law distinct from copyright law called moral rights. The Berne Convention establishes moral rights in Article 6bis [2]:
> Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
My very US-centric opinion upcoming: The non-physical components of copyrightable works are both non-scarce [3] and non-rival [4]. In my opinion, anything related to non-scarce, non-rival works should not be restricted in copyright-like ways except as a matter of ensuring that the makers of the works had enough financial cushion to be incentivized to make the works in the first place. Moral rights go beyond that purpose. Right of attribution is reasonable (within limits; which people should I grant attribution to if I'm making a remix of a remix of a remix of a remix of a... and so on?). Right to publish anonymously is inherently included in freedom of expression, and I really prefer that the country I live in protect freedom of expression. Right to ban "modification of"? Only as a necessary evil for financial incentivization and only as a privilege, since making a modification (which is making a remix) doesn't destroy the original work. Also, free as in speech software i.e. libre software should get a pass. Right to ban "derogatory action in relation to" is incompatible with freedom of expression.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_France#Differ...
[2] https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/283698
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)#Non-rivalr...
Unless they specifically grant a license to the general public (such as Creative Commons) or they release a work into the public domain (in countries that know the concept), the copyright is with its creator.
This only applies to copyrightable works and there are many other edge cases, though.
It took about 2 days to make sure that absolutely everything worked, including turning stereo into 5.1 + 2, and adding LFE to the adjoining room speakers so they didn't miss out on multichannel bass. Technically, I could map the extra channels from a 7.1 or 9.1 source into their nearest 5.1 neighbors, but I left that part disabled because I don't have any sources with that many channels.
The most tedious part of the setup was proving that each source type was supported, and all the speaker mappings were correct. Test files are extremely useful and there's no one source for all of them. I spent quite some time finding these files for myself.
For the pipewire / pulseaudio channel mapping I can go into the boring details if you want
Oh, and I plug a Logitech Bluetooth audio receiver into the line-in on the USB 7.1 soundcard, so I can pay music from a phone or my HiBy R2 DAP.
About the Pi: it sucked for a heap of reasons. I found myself fighting stupid battles over and over. Switching to an x86 made all of those problems disappear immediately. Stay the hell away from the Pi, is my advice.
I don't have a remote actually, I use the Kodi Android remote, MusicBee Android remote and kdeconnect (for everything else).
[PCs often have idiosyncratic default channel arrangements]
Google products have become so user hostile at the expense of their users. I literally cannot download this folder on my phone I have to “share” each one individually. I also can’t make an actual copy of the files without downloading and uploading so they save some precious space. Must be hard for such a small company
But just use your browser. Ctrl+A to select all files, hit the "Download" button, wait a minute for it to create a .zip file, and it downloads. Just tried it myself, works like a charm. (In past experience sometimes the .zip archive step fails -- if so, so just try a second time.)
> I also can’t make an actual copy of the files without downloading and uploading so they save some precious space.
If you're trying to make a copy to your own personal Drive, just select "Make a copy" from the context menu. That creates a copy (not a shortcut) in your Drive root folder, no downloading and uploading required. (In the mobile app that option appears only for individual files, but the Drive website allows you to do it for all selected files at once.) I just tried this now as well and it works perfectly.
Or if you want to save space on your Drive, you can drag them to "My Drive" (rather than explicitly making a copy) and it'll create shortcuts instead.
You will end up receiving three .zip files that unpack to about 5 GB total.
Second, there's actually no way to let someone upload stuff to your drive. I needed a bunch of video footage from someone else's phone, but she couldn't upload it even though I gave her a link to a folder... because she doesn't have her own Drive. So BS #2 is to support BS #1.
I don't remember if Google double-counts stuff "shared" with you, against your Drive and the sharer's. But I wouldn't put it past them.
Unfortunately DropBox doesn't offer competitive capacity/price combos, and even worse they outright lose files. They lost an entire video job I uploaded for a client; gigabytes of files just disappeared for several days, and when they finally responded to inquiries they had no explanation. I had to sign up for Google just to get the job delivered (late).
I've downloaded them and created a mirror for anyone else having issues.
Isn't auro3d mostly dead/beta maxed?
That said, it's obviously impossible to include every audio format out there, so I don't expect it to do so at all. That's why I asked what's the motivation to write such thing, because it's a very weird thing to say in the first place. If it actually included some weird, exotic and outdated formats it could perhaps be excused, but apparently it doesn't even try to do that, so it really feels like clickbait.