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A baseball player watches a foul ball go into stands filled with photos of fans.

Can artificial crowd noise match the thrill of packed stadiums?

Sports

With spectators unable to watch live sports in person due to the coronavirus, the cheers and jeers must come from somewhere. Teams, leagues and broadcasters around the world are taking different approaches to provide artificial crowd noise for games.

Music Heard on the Air for August 20, 2013

Music Heard on Air

The Sound of Birds, Whales, Elephants, Frogs, Published Online

Environment

Archives Theft and the Uniqueness of Audio

The World

Preserving America’s earliest recordings

Arts, Culture & Media
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Edgar Choueiri’s hobby is acoustics. He has developed a way to render sound in three dimensions, and given Studio 360 listeners an exclusive first listen of his 3D audio technology.

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