Chipmunking music is pitch shifting the music up plus slightly more rapid play It makes much music sound better chipmunking is doable with audacity thus a module to automatically chipmunk all of the stream of online radio would be nifty
You could click on different chipmunk versions
I find New music is easier to appreciate sped up n pitch shifted
Theres a paper on how uptempo music elevates peoples moods I think that might be why there is so much chipmunk music at youtube Its kind of a separate culture Chipmunk online radio would thus be nifty-- beanangel, Apr 22 2009 manic monday at the lab http://www.youtube....watch?v=Gj3AYVbnv5k [beanangel, Apr 22 2009] Audacity software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information. [beanangel, Apr 22 2009] How would it sound if Alvin and the Chipmunks performed one of their "own" songs?-- xenzag, Apr 22 2009 The first sentence is chipmunking two or three sentences - so it seems baked...
Apart from literary critique, i like the idea. With normal radio it would not work without buffering, but streaming radio is coming in faster than it is replayed anyways, and podcasts would work too.
My mp3 player already has the ability to fast forward, although only in big steps (1.5 times normal is the slowest). I am not sure whether chipmunking involves anything more than replaying faster - this will make the frequencies higher all by itself, actually, Audacity can make music faster _without_ making it higher pitched, which is a much bigger task.-- loonquawl, Apr 22 2009 Loonq: Chipmunking (I can't believe I've lived to see 'chipmunk' become a verb) involves more a pitch-shift than would arise purely from speeding it up. For old-fashioned tape-based purposes, the singers would sing at normal pitch but to a slower tempo, so that playing the tape at a faster speed would give an elevated pitch and a normal (or not much faster than normal) tempo.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 24 2009 I figured that was how it worked.-- normzone, Apr 27 2016 random, halfbakery