Discord mic quality
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Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
Have an example from a certain fan fic: Barack Obama telling Samus Aran that pregnancies can't happen the first time.
Here's what it sounded like to other people
Here's what it sounded like to me
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@ben_lubar Have you tried asking a human to test it for you?
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@wharrgarbl said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar Have you tried asking a human to test it for you?
@pydsigner said it sounded ok, but it was a different Discord server
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@ben_lubar I mean about you sounding like a robot, try getting a human to use your mic.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
have you tried using an ISP that uses copper or fiberoptics as a transmission materiel instead of rusted rust?
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
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@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
have you tried using an ISP that uses copper or fiberoptics as a transmission materiel instead of rusted rust?
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
have you tried using an ISP that uses copper or fiberoptics as a transmission materiel instead of rusted rust?
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
is that a yes? a no? a picture says a thousand words, all at once, with no context.
i know you know how to use your words. would you use your words for auntie vixen?
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@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
have you tried using an ISP that uses copper or fiberoptics as a transmission materiel instead of rusted rust?
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
is that a yes? a no? a picture says a thousand words, all at once, with no context.
i know you know how to use your words. would you use your words for auntie vixen?
My internet was made out of people in 1989.
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@accalia
Perverted auntie is very much not a good mental image
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@izzion I am mentioned and i appear with my toys.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
Is there some secret setting in Discord that makes my microphone sound like a robot made of gravel that I accidentally turned on?
have you tried using an ISP that uses copper or fiberoptics as a transmission materiel instead of rusted rust?
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
is that a yes? a no? a picture says a thousand words, all at once, with no context.
i know you know how to use your words. would you use your words for auntie vixen?
My internet was made out of people in 1989.
So that's where one of my bodies ended up!
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
accidentally
That sounds like the Opus codec fell back to extremely low bitrates somewhere along the line, probably due to latency. Discord's settings will sacrifice audio quality to keep the latency low.
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@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
Seriously?
There's a million things Discord doesn't handle well. Jesus. You can't even right-click its taskbar icon to maximize or move its window, they fucked up basic window handling which shouldn't even be possible!
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@blakeyrat said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
Seriously?
There's a million things Discord doesn't handle well. Jesus. You can't even right-click its taskbar icon to maximize or move its window, they fucked up basic window handling which shouldn't even be possible!
Yeah... It's also rather difficult to even move the window around.
I wonder if someone should start a thread on bad GUI...
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@Tsaukpaetra What shocks me more than Discord's bugs (which at this point are entirely expected from the modern developer who never QA anything ever) is that Accalia can look at Discord and say "about the only thing Discord doesn't handle well".
No wonder all our software is so buggy, people have become blind to bugs!
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@RaceProUK said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
rusted rust
As opposed to that rust that isn't rusty?
Rust and ruin!
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@blakeyrat In general, I've found the thing pretty good.
My biggest gripe is that their web version doesn't work on mobile, and they won't make an app for my phone. I'd happily take one or the other.
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It seems whatever it was wasn't there this week, so probably something to do with low bandwidth switching modes and then not switching back.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
It seems whatever it was wasn't there this week, so probably something to do with low bandwidth switching modes and then not switching back.
Or maybe my microphone was just trying to impress @blakeyrat by pretending to be a robot.
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@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
My biggest gripe is that their web version doesn't work on mobile, and they won't make an app for my phone.
They have apps for both Android and iOS, what phone do you have?
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@Erufael said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
My biggest gripe is that their web version doesn't work on mobile, and they won't make an app for my phone.
They have apps for both Android and iOS, what phone do you have?
Nokia 3310?
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@Erufael said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
My biggest gripe is that their web version doesn't work on mobile, and they won't make an app for my phone.
They have apps for both Android and iOS, what phone do you have?
Could be a WinPhone: there's no official Discord app for that.
That's one place Slack has it beat: Slack has an official WinPhone client.
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@RaceProUK Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Heh. Though to be fair, doesn't WinPhone have a tiny market share?
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@Erufael said in Discord mic quality:
Though to be fair, doesn't WinPhone have a tiny market share?
Therefore users of it should be punished!
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@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
web version doesn't work on mobile,
What part?
Imma check when I can, but I'm pretty sure it worked just as fine, if a lot scrunched up (because mobile).
Edit: Oh, WinPhone... Yeah, they probably don't have a recent build of Chrome (or equivalent), huh?
That's OK, you should be able to package it with Continuum, right?
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@blakeyrat it builds character
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@blakeyrat I'm not excusing the lack of a build, just that I can see why it wouldn't necessarily be a priority to do so.
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@Erufael They could just get a decent mobile site, since they were too stupid to build software in a crossplatform way.
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@Tsaukpaetra It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons, and my phone isn't that low res. They only have a desktop site.
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@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons
I don't know what you're talking about, it's totally usable!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons
I don't know what you're talking about, it's totally usable!
Click the people icon in the upper right.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons
I don't know what you're talking about, it's totally usable!
Click the people icon in the upper right.
Help?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons
I don't know what you're talking about, it's totally usable!
Click the people icon in the upper right.
Help?
You need to stop hanging out with the riddler. That's not what a people looks like!
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
It's scrunched up to the point where I can't see chat or use buttons
I don't know what you're talking about, it's totally usable!
Click the people icon in the upper right.
Help?
You need to stop hanging out with the riddler. That's not what a people looks like!
Oh so person-duplicating is people?
You know, I always thought that icon was for groups. Then they told me it was friends. Then I decided it was just away to say you don't care. Now it's a people?!?!
I can't win!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
person-duplicating
what? it's a requirement in the human duplicating process ...
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@Tsaukpaetra the friends icon has three a people.
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@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
@Erufael They could just get a decent mobile site, since they were too stupid to build software in a crossplatform way.
Since I'm currently investigating some of this for work: what doesn't work specifically? I'm assuming audio? Because yeah, audio APIs are still a freaking pain, the ability to even choose which devices to use for audio streams in the browser is pretty dang new as it is. I know we gave up on doing a web-based softphone in the past for that very reason. Might be why it doesn't work in IE/Edge/Whatever WinPhone uses.
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@Onyx said in Discord mic quality:
@Magus said in Discord mic quality:
@Erufael They could just get a decent mobile site, since they were too stupid to build software in a crossplatform way.
Since I'm currently investigating some of this for work: what doesn't work specifically? I'm assuming audio? Because yeah, audio APIs are still a freaking pain, the ability to even choose which devices to use for audio streams in the browser is pretty dang new as it is. I know we gave up on doing a web-based softphone in the past for that very reason. Might be why it doesn't work in IE/Edge/Whatever WinPhone uses.
It used to be that you had to check your web app in every single mainstream browser, but now most of the mainstream browsers are just reskinned WebKit, which means Gecko and Trident based browsers probably have the most apparent bugs. Firefox mobile tends to not be installed by default, so you end up with IE mobile being the odd one out.
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@ben_lubar That's no excuse to skip the testing.
I do admit to not bothering trying to get some stuff working using stupid hacks because supporting it doesn't make any commercial sense (no, I can't get this shit working on IE9, fuck it!).
Then again, I'm not building a public facing app...
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@Onyx said in Discord mic quality:
That's no excuse to skip the testing.
My point is that it not being a valid excuse doesn't stop people from using it as one.
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@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra the friends icon has three a people.
Really? Is it because you can't have friend, just have friends?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
@Tsaukpaetra the friends icon has three a people.
Really? Is it because you can't have friend, just have friends?
They're pluralists - they have a deep and abiding hatred of singularities.
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@blakeyrat said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
Seriously?
There's a million things Discord doesn't handle well. Jesus. You can't even right-click its taskbar icon to maximize or move its window, they fucked up basic window handling which shouldn't even be possible!
As far as I know, their desktop app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app. Heck, Discord's logo is even on the Electron site.
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@blakeyrat said in Discord mic quality:
@Erufael said in Discord mic quality:
Though to be fair, doesn't WinPhone have a tiny market share?
Therefore users of it should be punished!
Therefore, it's not worth expending development time on a port for such a small user share. Sorry. Surely you understand the concept?
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@powerlord said in Discord mic quality:
@blakeyrat said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
Seriously?
There's a million things Discord doesn't handle well. Jesus. You can't even right-click its taskbar icon to maximize or move its window, they fucked up basic window handling which shouldn't even be possible!
As far as I know, their desktop app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app. Heck, Discord's logo is even on the Electron site.
That's exactly what it is. You can even launch the Chrome Dev tools.
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@RaceProUK said in Discord mic quality:
@powerlord said in Discord mic quality:
@blakeyrat said in Discord mic quality:
@accalia said in Discord mic quality:
cause super bad upload is about the only thing that discord doesn't handle well in my experience.
Seriously?
There's a million things Discord doesn't handle well. Jesus. You can't even right-click its taskbar icon to maximize or move its window, they fucked up basic window handling which shouldn't even be possible!
As far as I know, their desktop app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app. Heck, Discord's logo is even on the Electron site.
That's exactly what it is. You can even launch the Chrome Dev tools.
Edit: Lol
Yeah, sure, I'll close Discord, no problem, sire.
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@dkf said in Discord mic quality:
@ben_lubar said in Discord mic quality:
three a people
I prefer 17.38 b people.
I understand the law frowns on trimming people to size, so be sure to get your fractional people naturally. Although they may be more lenient about non-organic sources of people.