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4 unusual facts about Audible


Amber House Trilogy

Audiobook editions of the books are narrated by co-author Tucker Reed for Audible audiobooks.

Sansa Fuze+

The Fuze+ supports playback of common audio file formats, including MP3, WMA, Secure WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and AAC, as well as Audible, and Podcast formats.

Science News

Audible.com distributes an audio edition of Science News.

The Very World of Milton Jones

All three series are available to download as audiobooks from Audible.com.


Comparison of analog and digital recording

Additionally, in blind tests conducted by Bob Katz, recounted in his book Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science, he found that listening subjects could not discern any audible difference between sample rates with optimum A/D conversion and filter performance.

Daniel J. Shanefield

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Shanefield was an early proponent of double-blind ABX testing of high-end audio electronics; in 1980 he reported in High Fidelity magazine that there were no audible differences between several different power amplifiers, setting off what became known in audiophile circles as "the great debate".

Ducking

Clear examples include Céline Dion's "The Power Of Love" where the reverb and delay become audible when Dion pauses and Adele's "Cold Shoulder".

Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing

There are also audible crowd effects; if a boxer lands a damaging punch, the crowd will cheer in approval, whereas if there is a lack of action, they will make evident their disapproval with boos and jeers.

Hardware Platform Interface

Because a wide variety of alarm display hardware, such as LEDs, audible alerts, text display panels, etc. are used on different hardware platforms, it is difficult for an application program to be written to display alarm information in a platform-independent way.

Intellivoice

The Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module was an adapter for the Intellivision, Mattel's home gaming console, that utilized a voice synthesizer to generate audible speech.

McBBS

The net result, when used with the appropriate translation software (also supplied by McDonald and company), was audible, if low-resolution music; a demonstration given by McDonald himself once showed the BBS playing The Rolling Stone's "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and the William Tell Overture, coded using a simple text editor.

On the Border

Barely audible at the end of the song, Glenn Frey can be heard whispering "Say Goodnight, Dick," a line made famous by Dan Rowan of Rowan and Martin but in this case referring to Richard Nixon's resignation.

Peatbog Faeries

What Men Deserve to Lose appeared to be quite similar to Croftwork, with the brass roots returning, but with more alternative rock audible towards the end of the album.

PlayCafe

Some prizes available in the bonus round include raffle tickets to the next week's drawing, Reactee t-shirts, Amazon gift cards, Audible audiobooks, ITunes songs, Wiis, and US$1,000.

RBT

Ringback tone, audible ringing that is heard on the telephone line by the calling party after dialing and prior to the call being answered

Ringback

Ringback tone, the audible ringing that is heard by the calling party after dialing

Run to Ruin

The backing track to this Japanese version of "While We Talk" (written in rōmaji as "Simpuru Ni"; which translates literally as "Simpler Thoughts") is identical to the English version, with the exception of some barely audible additional instrumentation (chamberlin and optigon).

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

Inspired both by American free jazz and by the radical, abstract music of AMM, as well as influences as diverse as Anton Webern and Samuel Beckett (two Stevens touchstones), the SME kept at least a measure of jazz in their sound, though this became less audible in the later "string" ensembles.

The Selfish Gene

In March 2011, Audible Inc published an audiobook edition narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward.

The Twin Atlas

Zaleski is now an NYC resident, and Byrne lives in Philadelphia, where he has drummed with the bands Lenola, Mazarin, Matt Pond PA, Audible and BC Camplight.

The Vejtables

She later left the group because their sound was evolving into a harder psychedelic sound, joining another San Francisco group, the Mojo Men, for which she sang a very audible harmony vocal on their biggest selling single, the Stephen Stills-composed "Sit Down I Think I Love You" from 1967.

Toni Fisher

Disc jockey Wink Martindale commented that the record label billed the singer as "Miss Toni Fisher" because of her powerful voice, which is consistently audible over the phasing, the instruments, and the background noise, to confirm to the listener that the singer is indeed a woman.

Toronto Transit Commission accessibility

All trains offer automated audible-only station stop announcements recorded by a TTC employee, Susan Bigioni, the new Toronto Rocket subway cars have twice the accessible seating compared to the existing T1 and H6 subway cars.

Unreleased

Unreleased stop, in phonetics, a plosive consonant without an audible release burst

Xenochrony

Excerpts from "The World's Greatest Sinner" soundtrack, composed by Zappa, are audible on both "I Don't Know If I can Go Through This Again" (from Lumpy Gravy) and "Mother People" (from We're Only in It for the Money).

Z Music Television

In the late 1990s two studys of Z Music's programming classified its music videos into three categories based upon their audible and visible religious characteristics.


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