Greetings, I know absolutely nothing about Audacity being a GoldWave user, but have received the following from another person who needs help.
At the end of the correspondence, there is a DropBox link to a file she created, so please, can somebody go back to her (she is not on the PC Audio list so send privately and, if you wish, to the list). I reproduce the correspondence below. To: [email protected] Subject: converting cassettes to mp3 From: Janine Greening <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:35:49 +0100 Hello Colin I hope you don't mind me writing, but i know that you have been known to convert cassettes to mp3, (i'm thinking of the archers), so i'm hoping you may be able to help with a slight problem. Basically, i instaled audasity software on to my new laptop last week, (something which i'd got on fine with on my previous laptop), and although the sound is fine when recording, playing the files back is very strange. Although the overall quality is fine, the files seam to jump occasionally, so that parts of words are missed, and the speed sometimes gets affected. Some of these recordings are archers tapes, so you may understand what i mean, when I say that the gaps between scene changes are totally missed, and i'll go from one scene into another with know pause at all. Do you have any suggestions about settings i need to change? I've tried just playing around with it, but all i seem to do is make the quality worse, or have know affect at all, as i'm not as technically minded as some, i'm not as experienced. If you like, i could up-load something to dropbox and show you exactly what I mean? I've converted a file to mp3 just to see if it was something in audasity itself, and sent it to someone else to test, and its having the same affect. Again, I hope you don't mind me writing. Many Thanks, Janine To: Janine Greening <[email protected]> Subject: Re: converting cassettes to mp3 From: Colin Howard <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:56:02 +0100 Greetings, I know nothing at all about audacity, I use GoldWave, also I am on WindowsXP home, I suspect you are now on windows7 and I know there are a few differences. Send me something via Dropbox and I'll take a listen. Can you play other files without problems? To: "Colin Howard" <[email protected]> Subject: link for archers episodes From: janine greening <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:37:24 +0100 Hello Colin As promised, here is a dropbox link for you. Its what I recorded most recently, so it made sense to send it. the link is: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7214764/the%20archers%20the%20week%20of%20ben%27s%20birth%20in%202001.mp3 Many Thanks, Janine To: janine greening <[email protected]> Subject: Re: link for archers episodes From: Colin Howard <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:46:09 +0100 Greetings, Thanks, I am downloading the file. I use GoldWave to record, it is not free but for the $40 or so lifetime licence, I think it is well worth it. GoldWave is very user-friendly having Jaws scripts written and kept updated. I will send you a DropBox link for a file I recently put up from You and Yours and which I sent to a few groups, maybe you've seen it but here is the file name and download link. File Name: Article from You and Yours 2013 04 17 about ATOS and tests for work.mp3 File size: 15.2 MB (15,943,576 bytes) Down Load Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/Article%20from%20You%20and%20Yours%202013%2004%2017%20about%20ATOS%20and%20tests%20for%20work.mp3 I will not be leaving it up beyond 30 april so take it and have a listen. I mostly use totalRecorder V8.3Pro to record off-air then edit with GoldWave. I actually recorded the whole program this time onto my PlexTalk Pocket memory card from d.a.b then editted via GoldWave this time. Since starting this post, I have now downloaded the file and will give a listen using WinAmp V5.63, then come back with comments. Um, first one a couple of scenes no space and the words especially spoken by David seem to be chopped at the start, but it does not seem consistent. Start of second one signature tune some of the music missing at fade into program, otherwise so far, listening to David, Alistair and ruth, seems no problems. I will not now listen further, but I will send to the pc audio list and maybe somebody there will have an idea. I will send the DropBox link so please don't delete the file for a few days, I will copy you into the post I send. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
