Program for analysing WAV files

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Lloyd
y. Using Windows with no urges to move to a new operating system to do this... Thanks. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: getting speech on my ipod

2010-06-03 Thread Kevin Lloyd
s the language setting on your Ipod. By default this is US English so shouldn't be a problem if you're using a US English voice as your computer's default. You'll then again check the checkbox to enable speech within Itunes. Regards. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo.

Re: Selecting Songs In ITunes

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Lloyd
r the JTunes scripts but haven't really felt the need to upgrade or pay the additional cost for the scripts. Regards. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "Brian Hansen" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Sunday, A

Re: Itunes, just starting out

2010-03-31 Thread Kevin Lloyd
reelists.org with the single word HELP in the subject, or click on this link: <mailto:ecar...@freelists.org?subject=help> Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "Amie Slavin" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wed

Re: Itunes, just starting out

2010-03-31 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Kathy. You can use Itunes as a general music library and player on your PC with no problems at all. If you purchase music from the Itunes store it will be in an Apple proprietary format, usually AAC, and you will need to convert it to MP3 to play on other devices. You can do the conversio

Re: CD BURNING QUESTION

2010-03-30 Thread Kevin Lloyd
No, shouldn't be a problem but you'd really need to repeat the burn to see if you have a real issue or whether the problem was due to faulty media. Regards. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "DJ DOCTOR P" To: "PC Aud

Re: CD BURNING QUESTION

2010-03-30 Thread Kevin Lloyd
t you would hear a difference in the results between the two programs. Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "DJ DOCTOR P" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:53 AM Subject: Re: CD BURNING QUESTION High Gar

Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Lloyd
pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd Sent: 27 December 2009 14:00 To: Kevin Lloyd; PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate and here's a reference to the choices around minimum bit rates when using VBR: CDex Manual File E

Re: cdex question

2009-12-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Why not start CDEx, press function key F4 to open the options menu and locate the file names tab. There you will find the answer as to where your CD's are being ripped. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "Matthew" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'"

Re: windows media which version

2009-12-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I'm using media player version 10 with JAWS version 9 very successfully including full access to the library, creating playlists, syncing MP3 players and my Nokia phone, editing tags and ripping into lossless WMA format from CD. I'm not aware of any tutorials as most tasks can be worked out fa

Re: a question about joint stereo and normal stereo

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Lloyd
won't produce regular stereo. Everything comes out in joint and variable bit rate regardless of software settings. It's Winamp which I'm using to tell me what my stats on a particular file happen to be. Any thoughts? Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd"

Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Lloyd
and here's a reference to the choices around minimum bit rates when using VBR: CDex Manual File Edit Bookmark Options Help Contents Index Back Print Up << >> Bitrate Options: There are three types of bitrate options that you can specify for each the encoder (although some encoders may not allow

Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Lloyd
t transmission errors that could occur on the MP3 stream. However, it takes 16 bits per frame that would otherwise be used for encoding, and therefore will slightly (probably imperceptibly) reduce the sound quality. stereo Kevin Lloyd E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message

Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate

2009-12-26 Thread Kevin Lloyd
The only point I'd add to Dane's notes is that I have read advice around not setting your variable floor too low. I'd suggest for music that you set the floor to 128kbps rather than the suggestion below of 16kbps. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From:

Re: Pros and cons of varible bit rate

2009-12-26 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I've never seen any evidence to suggest that encoding at too high a bit rate can result in unwanted artifacts though I do understand that to broadcast in high bit rate is obviously more challenging in terms of available bandwidth and so this may be a consideration. As to the question in gener

Re: a question about joint stereo and normal stereo

2009-12-26 Thread Kevin Lloyd
My understanding is that joint stereo is a psychoacoustic trick to try and make lower bit rate encoded files sound better in terms of their channel separation. I don't believe the monoblock analogy is strictly correct. All the advice I have seen is to use normal stereo for decent encoded files

Re: CD Ripping Question

2009-12-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Tom. What version of windows media player are you using? I'm using version 10 and this is really easy to achieve. I can give you the process for version 10 but it'll obviously be different if you're using another version. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Messag

Re: Best external sound card for DJ.

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
If you're only interested in playback, why not check out the Musical Fidelity V-DAC. It's a USB digital to analogue converter rather than soundcard from a well respected hi-fi manufacturer. I use a program called Audigen from Red Chair Software which provides my music library and has excellen

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Jason. If you're music is organised into artist and album folders then the Ipod would be fine for you. You can move from the music folder into either artist, album, song or playlists. When in the artist folder you can browse all albums by the artist or all songs and when selecting an albu

Re: Anyone using itunes?

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Catherine. I'm using the Ipod Nano 4th generation with Itunes 8.1 and JAWS version 9 completely successfully. I'm removing and adding tracks almost daily as my only criticism of the Nano is it's paltry 16GB capacity. All menus and tracks, artists, albums are spoken. If you have a 5th g

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
blaster with it's optic output to the AV unit? Very best wishes. Andy. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Re: Hi-fi soundcard Yes, if you're looking for pure high

Re: Hi-fi soundcard

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Yes, if you're looking for pure high quality playback then I'd recommend the Musical Fidelity V-DAC. This is a real piece of hi-fi kit produced by a well respected hi-fi brand rather than a piece of computer kit. It will connect via USB and can be bought for approx. £150 from www.superfi.co.uk

Re: itunes file to mp3

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You should be able to open AAC files in goldwave and save them as MP3. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "Jed Barton" To: Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 6:05 PM Subject: itunes file to mp3 Hey guys, Got an itunes file i need to convert to an

Re: Naming Tracks

2009-09-19 Thread Kevin Lloyd
John, can't provide the detailed step by step instructions as I don't use this software but it sounds like you need something like MusicBrains. If you search for this with Google you'll find the website where you can download it and a compatible tagger to do what you want. The way it works is

Re: Batch converting, flac to mp3

2009-09-08 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Tim. Goldwave has a very easy to use batch converter that can convert Flac to MP3 using the lame encoder. Regards. Kevin E-mail: kevin.llo...@sky.com - Original Message - From: "Tim Crawford" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 11:20 PM Subject: Batc

Re: adding lame mp3 encoder to goldwave

2008-02-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Just copy the lame dll file into your goldwave folder and that's job done. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Scott Blanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:05 AM Subject: adding lame mp3 encoder to goldwav

Re: Accessible mp3 tagging program

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You can use media players tag editor to do this. Go to your library, locate the tracks you want to tag and hit your aplications key for a list of functions including the tag editor. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "David Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC

Re: Changes in Winamp Version 5.52

2008-01-20 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I'd recommend giving windows media player a look. It's library is completely accessible with no scripting required. Very powerful and easy to use once you've spent a little time playing with it. It won't get broken in a couple of days time either with yet another software release that doesn't

Re: Jitter errors

2008-01-20 Thread Kevin Lloyd
, 2008 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Jitter errors > in this case how do you get rid of these errors? > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:22 PM >

Re: Jitter errors

2008-01-10 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Jitter errors mean that your rip has imperfections. These manifest themselves as small blips in the music or in worse cases, skipping. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "GianniP46" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCAudioList" Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:31 AM

Re: Ripping Settings

2008-01-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Yes, I'd recommend using VBR to get the best results in the smallest file size. Joint stereo is only really used if you are ripping at extremely low bitrates so I would avoid using this. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: File rename mp3 with id3 tag

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Try mp3tag. It's free and accessible and will rename files from ID3 tag info. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:53 AM Subject: File rename mp3 with id3 tag > Hi > I a

Re: Flac and Windows Media Player 11

2007-12-12 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Yes, you'll need to download a codec to play flac in windows media player. Just google flac windows media player and read up on the subject before taking the plunge. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:35

Re: More direct link? RE: upgrading zenstone

2007-12-12 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Please send your e-mail address to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send you the firmware directly. It's just over 1 meg in size so shouldn't be a problem to mail. If anyone else wants the firmware, please also use the e-mail address above rather than responding to the list. Kevin E-mail: [EM

Re: CDEX is great!

2007-12-09 Thread Kevin Lloyd
ubject: Re: CDEX is great! >I have all my music rpped onto hard disk in 320 MP3. > I would consider re-ripping it if flac is as good as wav, which is what > you > say. > > Are there portable players that play flac ? > > Can you stream a internet radio show using flac ? &

Re: CDEX is great!

2007-12-08 Thread Kevin Lloyd
A 320kbps mp3 file is good but not as good as a lossless format like wav, flac or lossless wma. You may only notice the short comings of mp3 when you play music back through a good hifi system. Of course, if you've ripped all your music to mp3 then it'll be too late to get that quality back un

Re: Os 10.5 Leopard, some people are having problem it seems

2007-12-08 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Dane, this isn't a list for operating systems or screen reader discussions but you've mentioned some interesting applications here. Might be useful to expand on how you're using these applications. That is, are you totally blind and completely relying on voice over or have some small amount of

Re: ripping cd's into one audio track?

2007-12-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You can also use goldwave's CD reader to rip a CD into a single track. Doesn't support AAC out of the boxbut there may be a plug in I'm not aware of. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, De

Zen stone firmware upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I've just been made aware of a firmware update for the zen stone. It's been available since August so some of you may already have updated your players but if not there's a link below where you can go to download the update. The biggest change is to reduce the time it takes for the stone to st

Re: Ripping, Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Re: Ripping,Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:18 AM Subject: Re: Ripping,Copying and EncodingRE: Easy C

Re: Ripping, Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
would be of little use to me . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2007 12:11 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping,Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things Yep

Re: Ripping, Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
ussion List" Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Ripping,Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Frid

Re: Ripping, Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
er wither it be EAC, Windows Media Player or whatever. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 8:31 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping,Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor:

Re: Ripping,Copying and Encoding

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
om: "DJ DOCTOR P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:00 PM Subject: Re: Ripping,Copying and Encoding High Kevin, That all sounds good, but what about cueing and cross fading? Wouldn't you need two labtops to do that?

Re: Ripping, Copying and EncodingRE: Easy CD DA Extractor: they've changed things

2007-11-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Your situation would be that you have a bit of a dodgy CD-ROM drive if you need to use EAC. If you have a good quality drive you don't need to go to those extremes. You should always use error correction of course which will slow down your media player rips but you will get perfect results wit

Re: Ripping,Copying and Encoding

2007-11-22 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You could take a laptop with you and connect both a hard drive and USB soundcard connected to your mixer without really taking up too much more space. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent:

Re: slight correction, was RE: Those JPG files:

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Those JPEG files take up no space at all so I'd recommend keeping them to reproduce CD covers and liners in the future especially if you no longer own the CD. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List"

Re: Stereo Receivers and amplifier's

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Trace. That's a really open question as the best amplifier you could get could be more than £10,000 with a similar amount for a pair of speakers. However, I'd suggest you take a look at the award winners section of www.superfi.co.uk I've just bought a Roksan Kandy LIII integrated amplifier

Re: More Goldwave Questions.

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
The sampling rate for audio CD's is 44 khz Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Vinny Samarco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: More Goldwave Questions. > Hi, >First of allWhat is the sampli

Re: wma lossless

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
under > 700. Is this ok or should I investigate further? > Thanks. > Gordon > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:40 AM > Subject: Re:

Re: Lossless formats

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
r 17, 2007 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Lossless formats > Hi, > > Does one need to download and install a special WMA/Lossless pluggin or, > is > it already provided in WMP 10? > > Cheers and Thanks...KG > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EM

Re: wma lossless

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Gordon. 16 bit with a frequency of 44 khz is exactly right and you will see fluctuations in the resulting bitrates. The bitrates generally fluctuate between 700 and 1000 kbps but it is really dependant on the type of music you're ripping. Complex music will need more than simple music. Ke

Re: Lossless formats

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Gordon. You should find no difference whatsoever when ripping to wma lossless as the nero ripper, and any other ripper for that matter,will be using a microsoft provided codec. There is much debate on which program will give a better rip but the truth is that it really depends more on your

Re: the worth of bit rates:

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Completely agree with John here. Playing music through a good hifi system will reveal lossless format's superiority over mp3 without a doubt. It's easy to think there's no difference playing music on a computer through cheap speakers but you may regret compromising the quality of your collect

Re: record albums

2007-11-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You could search for the albums on ebay or amazon market place to get an idea of price and list on either of those sites to sell them. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Vicki Wherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC-Audio" Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:35 AM Su

Re: The Best Ripping format again

2007-11-15 Thread Kevin Lloyd
r 13, 2007 4:44 AM Subject: Re: The Best Ripping format again > What does he use to convert from that format to anything else he might > want for use on a portable player? > > - Original Message - > From: Kevin Lloyd > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Sent: Sunday

Re: The Best Ripping format again

2007-11-11 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Gordon. In my opinion, you won't go wrong with WMA lossless. You're guaranteed no loss of quality at the smallest file size with full support for id3 tags. WMA is probably the most well supported format and as it's proprietary to Microsoft, you won't be left with a pup in a few years time a

Re: MP3's DVD's and Bit Rates.

2007-11-09 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Gary. The formats CD, DVD HD and blue Ray are all different as they all use different lasers to read a disc. The wavelength of a laser beam determines how accurately it can read data. So, a blue ray laser is much more smaller a wavelength than a CD laser and so can read a lot more data in

Re: Queuing up a file

2007-10-31 Thread Kevin Lloyd
As far as the music goes, you could create a playlist in windows media player containing all the tracks you want to play in the sequence you want to play them. You can set JAWS not to echo your key presses and use control + P to play and pause as required and control + F to go to the next track

Re: A windows Media Player question?

2007-10-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I'd be very surprised if the media library were not accessible in version 11 as it's completely accessible in version 10. If you have version 11 currently installed it's likely that the default is still in place which will add all tracks played into the media library. So, go to the view menu

Re: Bit rates and space used:

2007-10-28 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I have around 800 albums ripped in lossless WMA format and they take up 290 GB. On average the bitrates are around the 900kbps mark. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "albert griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Sunday, October 2

Re: mp3 files

2007-10-22 Thread Kevin Lloyd
You can create an auto playlist in windows media player that will allow you to create a random playlist of any size you wish and then synchronise to your portable player. I do this all the time to fill my 1GB stone. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "PRODUCTION

Re: CD Burning Problem

2007-10-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
If the tracks have been ripped from a CD drive with no offset problems, you should be able to join them together using goldwave. I've done this many, many times, especially with Pink Floyd albums and the results have been seemless. If the drive they were ripped from does have a slight offset

Re: Winamp vs WMP

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Windows media player will certainly tell you time elapsed. Tab to the current position edit field and here you'll find a constantly refreshed time elapsed. I haven't seen time remaining and overall time but I'd be surprised if it weren't there. Perhaps check out the help pages if you're inte

Re: Winamp vs WMP

2007-10-12 Thread Kevin Lloyd
"PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Winamp vs WMP > Besides being able to tell the player to search for them, do you have the > URL for this page? > -Mac- > ----- Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAI

Re: Winamp vs WMP

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Lloyd
There's a whole web site dedicated to windows media player plug ins. You can either download direct from there or ask the player to go and look for plug ins and download them. These provide support for those file types as well as a range of other features. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting track titles from CD when ripping to MP3

2007-10-09 Thread Kevin Lloyd
r m4A, m4B, and others. M4A are superlative for low bit rate, far > outstripping *.ogg for sound quality. I have made m4A files using Easy > CD-DA > Extractor at 20Kbps which are really superlative! > > > > Curtis Delzer > > > > - Original Message - &g

Re: A CDEX question:

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
ught lossless formats were constant, without variability? > > - Original Message - > From: Kevin Lloyd > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:55 AM > Subject: Re: A CDEX question: > > > These sound like the quality settings for va

Re: A conversion question:

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
ch did it for you. > > Dave. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd > Sent: 06 October 2007 07:53 > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: A conversion question: > > An uncompressed loss

Re: Meta Data

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Bye metadata I assume you mean ID3 tag information? If so, in media player, browse to the track in your library, hit the applications key and select edit tag. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list

Re: A CDEX question:

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
help files problem isn't uncommon. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:56 AM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: A CDEX question: > > These sound like

Re: Getting track titles from CD when ripping to MP3

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
sion are you talking about? > Can you move within a track as you can with Winamp? > Are there plug-ins to convert formats? > - Original Message - > From: Kevin Lloyd > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: Getting track t

Re: Rippers and Conversion Packages

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Typical errors from bad rips include: start of track and end of track blips - that is a millisecond of the previous or next track included in the ripped track. Very typical for CD-ROMS that haven't got offsets configured correctly. Jitter - portions of the track with very minor little pieces o

Re: A conversion question:

2007-10-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
An uncompressed lossless track from an audio CD is approximately 3 times larger than it's MP3 equivalent encoded at 320 kbps. Typically, the uncompressed track would be around the 30 meg mark for a 5 minute track whereas the MP3 equivalent would be around the 10 meg mark. If you're ripping in

Re: A CDEX question:

2007-10-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
These sound like the quality settings for variable bitrate. If I remember correctly, 0 means highest quality. Check out the CDEX help pages for more imformation, there's some useful stuff about settings in there. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "albert griff

Re: Getting track titles from CD when ripping to MP3

2007-10-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Kelly. Windows media player is a very accessible animal these days and is worth anyone taking another look. It's media library is completely accessible and easy to use unlike winamp which bounces from version to version breaking and fixing the library. It is easy to select which tracks you

Re: Alternative to CDex

2007-09-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
or try windows media player. It's free, already on your computer and developed by the software engineers that invented the WMA format, adopted by almost all legal music download providers as the format to deliver the best quality digital music downloads. It has error correction, allows you to

Re: ripping software:

2007-09-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Albert. Assume you mean windows media player in your question? If so, it's as quick as any other ripper. Of course, you should check the error correction checkbox to make sure you get quality results which will slow the rip necessarily. You can set the ripping options to eject the CD on c

Re: What Player

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin Lloyd
The Victor Stream though is very much a book reader rather than a music player so you need to decide what's your priority, music or books. If music then the zen stone could well be your best bet as it's built specifically with music playback in mind so no question you'll get a better sound qua

Re: windows media

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin Lloyd
s... > > > > Best Regards, > Cornell > > > > > Original Message Follows > From: "GianniP46" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: PC Audio Discussion List > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Subject: windows media > D

Re: windows media

2007-09-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
- From: "GianniP46" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 3:29 AM Subject: windows media > Is windows media accessible? Does it produce good mp3s? What version > should I try. > - Original Message - &

Re: WMX not signing on

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
WinMX and nothing to do with media player, methinks... Maybe the original poster can clarify... Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Stephen Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:02 PM Subject: RE: WMX no

Re: Some CDEX questions

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi. Windows media player has error correction so be sure to set it if you're using this program to rip audio CD's. It will rip much more slowly when this is enabled but you will get excellent results. To set the error correction flag, go to tools, options and locate the audio tab. Press enter

Re: mp3 question

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi. VBR is recognised as the best way to rip to both maximise the sound quality while at the same time minimise the file size. If you set your lower limit to 128kbps and your upper limit to 320kbps and choose the highest quality then you won't hear any difference between that track and one rip

Re: Output format tips needed:

2007-09-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
27;" > Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:41 AM > Subject: RE: Output format tips needed: > > >> Kevin, thanks for the Info. I'm doing quite a bit of research because >> the project is rather large and I can't afford to make mistakes. Once >> the disks are

Re: mp3 converters

2007-09-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Mark. Both programs are accessible and easy to use. With CDEX, you insert your CD and hit either F8 to rip into WAV format or f9 to rip into mp3 format. With media player, you can either set it up to rip automatically whenever a CD is inserted or tab down to the list of tracks, check thos

Re: Output format tips needed:

2007-09-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
s exactly what I do. > I have Wenamp V5.35, but when I want to rip CDs, I fall back on Windows > Media Player to do it. > And I rip all of my Cds in the WMA lossless format. > And so when I make compilation CDs, they turn out sounding like store > bought > Cds. > Maybe the other

Re: Output format tips needed:

2007-09-02 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi. If you're looking to retain exact audio copies of your CD's before selling them then you'll need to use a lossless format. I'd recommend lossless WMA and using windows media player to rip your CD's rather than nero. As you're probably aware, next to MP3, WMA is the most commonly supported

Re: m-audio cards

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Matthew. I heard a lot of recommendations for M-Audio cards and bought one a year ago or so. It wasn't a good experience and it was sent back within 2 weeks. The card was a USB soundcard, a 1296 if I remember correctly, and, basically, it kept dropping out. This could happen after 5 minute

Re: zen stone

2007-08-16 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hey Joe. I believe that the 2 GB stone has an FM radio, voice recorder and screen. >From what I've heard on a couple of lists it's not quite as easy to use as the 1 GB stone. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Joe Bollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pc

Re: zen stone

2007-08-15 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Lesley. A common problem that people have found with the zen stone is not waiting long enough for it to start playing. Hold the centre play button in for 3 seconds and then wait for 15 to 20 seconds for it to start playing. Make sure the volume isn't turned right down and make sure your ea

Re: Lossless

2007-08-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Steve. Looks like you weren't listening when the following answer was sent to the list on Tuesday: Hi. There's no 'best' in terms of sound quality for lossless formats as they all yield the same result; that is, a music file that is perfect in comparison to the original. However, you might w

Re: Lossless

2007-07-31 Thread Kevin Lloyd
t; > Bruce > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:37:37 +0100, "Kevin Lloyd" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Hi. >> >> There's no 'best' in terms of sound quality for lossless formats as they >> all >> yield the same result; that is, a music file th

Re: Lossless

2007-07-31 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi. There's no 'best' in terms of sound quality for lossless formats as they all yield the same result; that is, a music file that is perfect in comparison to the original. However, you might want to consider what formats are supported by most software and hardware players and I think you'd fi

Re: sites for downloading music

2007-07-23 Thread Kevin Lloyd
ject: RE: sites for downloading music > As I understand it, so far, they only have signed up one label for no > drm tracks, but are hoping to get others to agree. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Lloyd >

Re: sites for downloading music

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin Lloyd
2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: sites for downloading music > Dear Kevin > > do you know the website for it. > > all the best from sean waiting > > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " >

Re: sites for downloading music

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin Lloyd
I've heard that amazon will be launching a download store this year to rival i-tunes. Music will be free of any copy protection so will be able to play on any mp3 player and they hope to have over 12,000 record labels signed up within a short time. Can't tell you anything about formats yet. G

Re: creative zen stone

2007-07-19 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hey Joe. It's advertised running time on a full charge is 10 hours. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Joe Bollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pc -audio" Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: creative zen stone > hello friends, i recently pur

Re: converting an ogg file to MP3.

2007-07-18 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi. You can use goldwave to convert your files as follows: 1. Start goldwave. 2. Press alt + F to open the file menu. 3. Press the letter B to open the batch conversion dialogue. 4. Press tab until you reach the Add Folder button and press spacebar to activate it. 5. Tab to the browse butto

Re: Putting LP's on the Computer

2007-07-18 Thread Kevin Lloyd
rting from wav to Apple? Alternatively is it possible > to > add formats to Itunes so that the wav files might be exported from Itunes > with their tags, ideally like a flec or lossless windows media format? > Thanks for any response. > Gordon McFarlane > - Original Message

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