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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: adevero on December 24, 2002, 07:10:45 am

Title: More WAV--> MP3-->Audio CD problems
Post by: adevero on December 24, 2002, 07:10:45 am

I have been trying for 3 days to do something simple.  Take a speech from a digital recorder, saved as a wav file--using the MJ editor then create 2 seperate .wavs so that the finals will fit on 2 CD's (it's 170 minutes), convert it to MP3 and burn the CD.  The problems have been unreal.  But the 2 most frustrating ones are:

Cannot simply cut and paste into a new, empty audio file in the editor.  Instead, I have to cut one half, save the remainder.  Paste the cut piece back (from the clipboard) then cut the other half and save the remainder as a new file.  This is ridiculous.  how do you create an empty file and paste into it?

More importantly--no matter which speed or version of MP3 I convert to--when I then play it back it plays in fast forward-sounding speed--and that is what gets burnt onto the CD Rom. What is the basic format for converting a wav file to an MP3 format that can be immediately burnt onto a CD without strange changes in speed?

I would pay WAY more for a program that really  made this stuff easy--instead of one that looks easy but never produces the result without some glitch.

Title: Re: More WAV--> MP3-->Audio CD problems
Post by: xen-uno on December 24, 2002, 07:29:28 am

> Paste the cut piece back (from the clipboard) then cut the other half and save the remainder as a new file

In MJ's Media Editor use the File>Save Selection as... after highlighting section your want as separate file.

> when I then play it back it plays in fast forward-sounding speed

Mono, non-music files do not compress well (if at all) with any "music" encoder (ogg(http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/style_images/1/icon12.gif), mp3, mpc, etc.). You need a speech encoder.

10^-27

edit > if you really want to keep it in mp3 format than you overlay the speech on to some background music (that has been normalized downward...say 25%). That way it will encode properly. There may also be some command line options w/ the LAME encoder that would make this unnecessary.

Title: eRe: More WAV--> MP3-->Audio CD problems
Post by: rocketsauce on December 26, 2002, 10:27:21 pm

Also you might try the program mono2stereo available on this page:

http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/others.html

Rob

Title: Re: More WAV--> MP3-->Audio CD problems
Post by: Lucy on December 27, 2002, 12:31:03 am

To rocketsauce:

the picture you post here is very ugly. I was shocked when I saw it. I thought it was pornography. But it is not pornography. But - anyway it is not good looking

Title: Re: More WAV--> MP3-->Audio CD problems
Post by: KingSparta on December 27, 2002, 02:57:55 am

>> But it is not pornography
Pornography Is not allowed.