Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 08/11/2014 04:25 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > > I like Michael's suggestion, but if that can't be easily scripted, there > > are other transcoders (might be as easy as something like mp3gain set to > > reduce clipping - which doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/11/2014 04:25 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > I like Michael's suggestion, but if that can't be easily scripted, there > are other transcoders (might be as easy as something like mp3gain set to > reduce clipping - which doesn't re-encode the audio - or maybe it would > take a reencode (or a

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/11/2014 04:17 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:32:11PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: >> On 08/09/2014 09:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: >> I tried using Audacity, but it cleans up the audio so the problem >> disappears. Does anyone know of a gstreamer based audio edi

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
I like Michael's suggestion, but if that can't be easily scripted, there are other transcoders (might be as easy as something like mp3gain set to reduce clipping - which doesn't re-encode the audio - or maybe it would take a reencode (or a decode - mpg123 -w for instance, if you don't mind having a

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:32:11PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 08/09/2014 09:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > I tried using Audacity, but it cleans up the audio so the problem > disappears. Does anyone know of a gstreamer based audio editor that > works with Ubuntu 12.04? This implies yo

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-11 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/09/2014 09:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > Would be most useful, I think, to have a file that demonstrates the issue > rather than a recording of the sounds. Not sure what format you have but > hopefully it's easy to take a snip out of without completely re recording. The file is mp3. I

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/09/2014 09:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > Would be most useful, I think, to have a file that demonstrates the issue > rather than a recording of the sounds. Not sure what format you have but > hopefully it's easy to take a snip out of without completely re recording. > On Aug 9, 2014 8:

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
Would be most useful, I think, to have a file that demonstrates the issue rather than a recording of the sounds. Not sure what format you have but hopefully it's easy to take a snip out of without completely re recording. On Aug 9, 2014 8:49 AM, "Michael Rasmussen" wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/09/2014 08:47 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 07:40:25AM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: >> By contract I can't play any of the audio recordings while others can >> listen. > Can you get one of your clients to make a sample recording that you can share? > Alas, no. I don

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 07:40:25AM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 08/09/2014 03:45 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > > Dunno, !maybe qt/KDE does it better or maybe ardour? > By contract I can't play any of the audio recordings while others can > listen. Can you get one of your clients to make a sample r

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/09/2014 03:45 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > Dunno, !maybe qt/KDE does it better or maybe ardour? Could be, but do they have software that will play an audio file under the control of a foot pedal? Will that software automatically backup a second (plus or minus -- adjustable) so that when I stop

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-09 Thread Nat Taylor
Dunno, !maybe qt/KDE does it better or maybe ardour? On Aug 9, 2014 2:31 AM, "Dick Steffens" wrote: > On 08/08/2014 05:21 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > > I've used virtualbox successfully with win7. installation was simple. I > > have done this awhile ago on ubuntu, currently on OSX - both w

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-08 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/08/2014 05:21 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > I've used virtualbox successfully with win7. installation was simple. I > have done this awhile ago on ubuntu, currently on OSX - both worked without > complication. That's what I expected. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens __

Re: [PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-08 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
I've used virtualbox successfully with win7. installation was simple. I have done this awhile ago on ubuntu, currently on OSX - both worked without complication. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > Readers with unfortunately good memories will recall that I use an old > pro

[PLUG] Sound quality driving me to the dark side

2014-08-08 Thread Dick Steffens
Readers with unfortunately good memories will recall that I use an old program called Transcribe along with a separate old program called Footpedal to play back audio recordings for the purpose of transcribing them. Some of you may also recall that I've been fooling around, from time to time, w