Audio · 8.14.26 session

Band Practice Players

Every complete take from the 8.14.26 practice tape, one player each, with a real waveform, scrub-to-seek, speed control and an A/B loop. False starts, tuning pauses, section drilling and chatter were removed before these were cut.

22
players
21
verified clean
147
minutes
6
head trims
01
1:15
at 0:29:52 in the tape
clean
1.2 MB
02
4:07
at 0:34:28 in the tape
clean
3.8 MB
03
3:42
at 0:43:16 in the tape
clean
3.4 MB
04
3:39
at 0:47:02 in the tape
clean
3.4 MB
05
5:03
at 0:55:27 in the tape
clean
4.7 MB
06
10:25
at 1:06:14 in the tape
cleanhead trim 29.3s
9.7 MB
07
4:20
at 1:21:10 in the tape
clean
4.0 MB
08
4:22
at 1:26:58 in the tape
cleanhead trim 12.5s
4.1 MB
09
5:01
at 1:31:34 in the tape
clean
4.7 MB
10
4:39
at 1:36:56 in the tape
cleanhead trim 19.1s
4.3 MB
11
9:38
at 1:43:27 in the tape
clean
8.9 MB
12
1:14
at 1:53:19 in the tape
cleanhead trim 7.2s
1.2 MB
13
9:16
at 1:55:00 in the tape
clean
8.6 MB
14
2:27
at 2:11:22 in the tape
quiet passage
2.3 MB
15
3:04
at 2:14:06 in the tape
cleanhead trim 9.4s
2.9 MB
16
8:19
at 2:19:27 in the tape
clean
7.7 MB
17
8:20
at 2:30:21 in the tape
cleanhead trim 4.1s
7.7 MB
18
20:12
at 2:38:47 in the tape
clean
18.7 MB
19
6:39
at 2:59:08 in the tape
clean
6.2 MB
20
24:42
at 3:06:46 in the tape
clean
22.9 MB
21
2:12
at 3:33:27 in the tape
clean
2.0 MB
22
3:50
at 3:35:48 in the tape
clean
3.6 MB

What was removed

The tape ran 3:45:27. These 22 takes account for 147 minutes of it. The other 79 minutes were 46 fragments, 9 stretches with no steady pulse, 5 passes of the band drilling one section, and 3 abandoned attempts. Six takes also carried a false start welded to the front, and each of those was cut back to the real downbeat.

The audio

Each player streams a 128 kbps AAC encode made from the 24-bit source in one pass, with no gain change and no normalization, totalling 136 MB. The lossless originals stay on disk at ~/Music/Band-Practice/songs-clean/. Every waveform is drawn from 1,600 precomputed peak and RMS buckets read off the 24-bit file rather than off the encode.

How these were chosen

The detector treats a false start as a take the band tried again, and compares each take head-to-head against the ones that follow using chroma-sequence similarity with lag alignment. The full method, the verdict counts, and the places where the evidence is thin are written up in the songs report.