soundfingerprinting VS AudioDeviceCmdlets

Started 10 years ago as an open-source project, building an algorithm for audio fingerprinting. Added a commercial offering, selling storage built specifically for audio fingerprints, targeting enterprise customers. Since the offering was too technical (it's hard to sell solutions to problems that are too narrow and domain-specific), pivoted to more "business-oriented problems". This last year's pivot is a chance to finally grow. Running a business in single-player mode is, at times, too stressful. Aside from the technical part, which I very much enjoy, I need to wear marketing, sales, and customer support hats.

[1] - https://emysound.com

The OP said elsewhere they are using this[1] library, which allows you to specify minimum seconds to match, so you'd presumably set it to match 20 seconds or whatever minimum length podcast commercials usually are.

Most other audio fingerprinting libraries I've seen allow you to specify min/max time, as well.

HTH.

1. https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance.

1. Read more books, less social media/news.

2. Spend more time with my friends. I haven't seen some of them IRL for more than a year.

3. Exercise more, play tennis with my daughter, spend quality time with my kids.

4. Spend more time with my parents. They've become visibly older in the last years, an observation that scares me.

5. Focus more on marketing for the businesses that I've bootstrapped. All the shiny new features that are developed are not as important as getting more people to use your product.

6. Promote open-source project to 1k GitHub stars[1]. I know it isn't very meaningful, but it's just nice to receive a bit of recognition from the community.

7. Enjoy life, don't stress about all the little things that happen along the way.

Happy new year!

[1]: https://github.com/AddictedCS/soundfingerprinting

I worked with an issue close to this awhile ago when I needed to set a default audio device within a DSC (don't ask, it was dumb). Is the Get-AudioDevice cmdlet from the https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets repo? That was the one I ended up using, I found a bug in it with the way it was enumerating devices and had to dig into the C# underneath.

It uses a set of a cool set of PowerShell cmdlets named AudioDeviceCmdlets to query for the audio devices. Docs and installation instructions can be found in its GitHub repo. There are multiple ways of getting the list of audio devices on Windows, AudioDeviceCmdlets made it very easy to do.

Since my last update i have followed the links and advice that u/MasterChiefmas, u/PajamaDuelist, u/spyingwind, and u/ps1_missionary replied with. While none of their information directly helped, it helped me find the rabbit trails to get to this point. as of right now this script will control the remote audio devices but it will not allow you to play audio out of the remote pc speakers. if you run the contents of the invoke command in start-tone in a admin powershell window on your account it will work so i know the code is sound (pun intended). while doing researching this issue i came across AudioDeviceCmdlets from https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets and this helped solve many of the issues i had with controlling and unmuting audio remotely. However i still have issues getting audio to play remotely.

For Windows, aside from the other mention of NirCmd, there's also the AudioDeviceCmdlets PowerShell module (source here).

I just want to clarify that only one of the source files contains code that I wrote. https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets/blob/8a02ed8924d44e57338488e38927f35522d7853b/SOURCE/AudioDeviceCmdlets.cs

NIRcmd is great example, but I would add also AudioDeviceCmdlets https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets And if you want a physical switch, we should soon release the one which we developed last year https://youtu.be/2HNjlMSk42c

Managing multiple EQ profiles for different audio devices can be fuddly with EqualizerAPO, this PowerShell tool allows you to easily switch playback devices and audio device profiles among any number of devices using the AudioDeviceCmdlets module.