Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
more c dexe problem
hello friends, have been struggling with c dexe for the past two days, when i place the cd in the drive and open up c dexe it says access remote freedb if i hit enter and wait nothing happens, i tab down to access local freedb and still nothing happens, i press f 9 to start ripping but i don't get any information, no album title, no track information, just audio track one, audio track two etc, the album is loaded in to my music folder, but with no information, a message comes up no artist and then again the track numbers with no details of individual tracks, i'm using jaws eleven and windoes xp, i know i am omitting something but just what, can anyone help, i want to do a lot of work over the next few days, any help will really be appreciated, regards from ireland, joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Actually by adjusting the speed so I can better hear what is being played. I slow it down and play at that speed until i have it. then I put it back to normal and test myself. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:17 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ NOD32 5378 (20100819) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: more c dexe problem
HI you may want to go in to the settings with, F4. then go to the freeg database tab and check your E-mail is in there correctly if you don't have an E-mail address in there it doesn't get the information and sometimes it does reset the information mines done it a few times. - Original Message - From: joe bollard joebolla...@eircom.net To: pc -audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:26 PM Subject: more c dexe problem hello friends, have been struggling with c dexe for the past two days, when i place the cd in the drive and open up c dexe it says access remote freedb if i hit enter and wait nothing happens, i tab down to access local freedb and still nothing happens, i press f 9 to start ripping but i don't get any information, no album title, no track information, just audio track one, audio track two etc, the album is loaded in to my music folder, but with no information, a message comes up no artist and then again the track numbers with no details of individual tracks, i'm using jaws eleven and windoes xp, i know i am omitting something but just what, can anyone help, i want to do a lot of work over the next few days, any help will really be appreciated, regards from ireland, joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: more c dexe problem
Hi Joe, 1. Launch CDEX and press F4 to open the CDEX Configuration. 2. Arrow down to CD Database. If it is closed, press right arrow to open it. 3. Arrow down twice to Remote freedb. 4. Tab once to Remote Server and make sure something is selected. 5. Tab again to Your E-mail address. You must enter an email address here, otherwise it won't work. It doesn't have to be your real email address however. For example f...@hotmail.com will be ok. 6. Tab to Auto connect to remote CDDB and check it if it isn't already checked. 7. Tab to ok and press enter. I don't think you need to do anything else. The next time you insert a CD, it should automatically check the remote CDDB. I hope this helps. Regards, Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: joe bollard joebolla...@eircom.net To: pc -audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:26 PM Subject: more c dexe problem hello friends, have been struggling with c dexe for the past two days, when i place the cd in the drive and open up c dexe it says access remote freedb if i hit enter and wait nothing happens, i tab down to access local freedb and still nothing happens, i press f 9 to start ripping but i don't get any information, no album title, no track information, just audio track one, audio track two etc, the album is loaded in to my music folder, but with no information, a message comes up no artist and then again the track numbers with no details of individual tracks, i'm using jaws eleven and windoes xp, i know i am omitting something but just what, can anyone help, i want to do a lot of work over the next few days, any help will really be appreciated, regards from ireland, joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
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Re: MaPlEr
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Re: MaPlEr
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Re: MaPlEr
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RE: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
As a person with a hearing aid in one ear and a cochlear implant in another ear, I still encode as high as I possibly can. Try to get some kind of direct connection to your hearing aids if at all possible. Andre -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 19 August 2010 03:54 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If you set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Yes I've used it for that also. You can speed up and slow stuff down as you can in Goldwave or Soundforge without changing the pitch. Great for learning music. On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:17 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Hello all, I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the computer right now! So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids. Thanks all for the help. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote: Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowangrtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If yo u set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do you have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in the world. my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be! I have an old pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Hello all, I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the computer right now! So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids. Thanks all for the help. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote: Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowangrtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If yo u set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
I believe he said he had digital smile. Yes I used to put headphones over my hearing-aids but I can tell you know, if you can manage a direct connection to your hearing aids then you'll be doing yourself a huge favour! that's already been mentioned on list. I reviewed one device which may allow you to do this and its called the Tek Controller, listen to it at www.blindcooltech.com On 20/08/2010, at 8:33 AM, Gary Schindler wrote: Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do you have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in the world. my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be! I have an old pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Hello all, I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the computer right now! So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids. Thanks all for the help. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote: Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowangrtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If yo u set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Problem with noise reduction plugin
Hi listers, I installed levelator included in Richard's tutorial and wanted to use noise reduction plugin but while trying to run it I've been getting the following message: --- GoldWave Access violation at address 019B83D0 in module 'DirectX.pig'. Read of address . OK --- I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. Can any of view give me any suggestion how to fix it, please. It'd save me a lot of reading - I guess. Thanks, Pawel - It is my philosophy that my blindness should not cause me to have to buy specialized equipment that costs me more money than I have. Rather, I should be able to buy the same products that everyone else does because accessibility and usability are built in. - Alena Roberts To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users?
Thanks Dane, I shall have a listen. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? I believe he said he had digital smile. Yes I used to put headphones over my hearing-aids but I can tell you know, if you can manage a direct connection to your hearing aids then you'll be doing yourself a huge favour! that's already been mentioned on list. I reviewed one device which may allow you to do this and its called the Tek Controller, listen to it at www.blindcooltech.com On 20/08/2010, at 8:33 AM, Gary Schindler wrote: Chris, that is what I do, put the headphones over the hearing aides. do you have analog or digital aides, for that makes all the difference in the world. my digital aides are natural sounding like hearing should be! I have an old pair of analog aides which are sometimes on the sharp side. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Hello all, I tell you something, but audio sounds brilliant with my headphones sitting on top of my hearing aids, which is how I am listening to the computer right now! So I will put it down to my laptop speakers rather than hearing aids. Thanks all for the help. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 14:53, Dane Trethowan wrote: Ignore that, the whole purpose of VBR is to encode every sample at a bit rate, you don't want encoding of say silent samples done at 128k as that's just wasting band width. On 19/08/2010, at 11:47 PM, richard claypool wrote: I'd not set the min quality for as low as posible because that's too low. i'd set maybe 128 as your lowest point, and then whatever you want as your highest point. If you can't hear above 192, and won't be shairng the files, then maybe set it to 192. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowangrtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Best bitrate quality for hearing aid users? Well really this is a very strange questions, I've been wearing digital hearing aids for 15 years and I'n now asking myself, why should encoding of sound be any different to those wearing hearing aids than for those who are not? By that I mean you encode the way you want and the way you like but one thing I do know when wearing good hearing instruments is that you want the best quality sound you can get. An audio engineer once recommended me use VBR quality and I did post instructions on how to set this up with LAME and what all the settings meant quite some time ago so I'm sure you'll find it if you look in the archives. Basically what you need to do is set the minimum bit rate to as low as possible and the maximum bit rate to as high as possible. There are 2 quality bit rates, the VBR bit rate will need to be changed according to what you're encoding but a good setting for music is 3, the lower the number then the less the encoder rejects from the encoding. If yo u set the VBR quality to 1 then you may as well use a lossless compression such as FLAC. Use Joint stereo. Of course I'm referring to MP3 encoding with LAME here. On 19/08/2010, at 3:03 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, I have been equipped with two very powerful digital hearing aids literally today. I'm wondering what is the best in terms of audio quality. By that I mean things like 44,100HZ 16 bit or 128KBPS. Many thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Playing of cue files
Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing of cue files
what exactly are cue files? I've heard the term but not sure what they are. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:13 PM Subject: Playing of cue files Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing of cue files
Cue files are text files, you can edit them in a text editor. They point to positions in an accompanying file and show where tracks begin and end, supply track information to the player etc. CD burning software such as Exact Audio Copy and Easy CD DA Extractor can make use of them to burn CD'S or to extract audio into other formats. Audio editors such as Goldwave, Total Recorder and Amadeus Pro make use of them to mark particular positions in an audio file. On 20/08/2010, at 11:26 AM, richard claypool wrote: what exactly are cue files? I've heard the term but not sure what they are. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:13 PM Subject: Playing of cue files Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing of cue files
I use those points in gw all the time, but thought they were spelled q u e u e points, so when I saw this, i thought it might have been something diffeent. one learns something new every day. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Playing of cue files Cue files are text files, you can edit them in a text editor. They point to positions in an accompanying file and show where tracks begin and end, supply track information to the player etc. CD burning software such as Exact Audio Copy and Easy CD DA Extractor can make use of them to burn CD'S or to extract audio into other formats. Audio editors such as Goldwave, Total Recorder and Amadeus Pro make use of them to mark particular positions in an audio file. On 20/08/2010, at 11:26 AM, richard claypool wrote: what exactly are cue files? I've heard the term but not sure what they are. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:13 PM Subject: Playing of cue files Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing of cue files
Hi Dane, Can you please tell me in laymans terms what a Q sheet is and how one uses it? Thanks, Johnny At 09:13 PM 8/19/2010, you wrote: Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5374 (20100817) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com Johnny Chilelli Craftsman Certified Piano Tuner / Technician since 1978 Don't wait another minute! Call 814-450-LIFE or, 814-450-5433 and put the LIFE back into your piano! John Chilelli Piano Tuning And Repair Services Erie, PA Making Pianos Smile Everywhere! Home Office: 814-217-1880 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Playing of cue files
Dane, Just saw this post from you. Thanks, Johnny At 10:18 PM 8/19/2010, you wrote: Cue files are text files, you can edit them in a text editor. They point to positions in an accompanying file and show where tracks begin and end, supply track information to the player etc. CD burning software such as Exact Audio Copy and Easy CD DA Extractor can make use of them to burn CD'S or to extract audio into other formats. Audio editors such as Goldwave, Total Recorder and Amadeus Pro make use of them to mark particular positions in an audio file. On 20/08/2010, at 11:26 AM, richard claypool wrote: what exactly are cue files? I've heard the term but not sure what they are. msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:13 PM Subject: Playing of cue files Hi! One of the many things I like about VLC Media Player is its ability to handle cue sheets and associated audio files, a cue and wave or a cue and Flac pair for example so I was quite astonished when i discovered that Winamp won't handle this, does anyone know of a Winamp plug-in which may solve the problem or perhaps an accessible piece of software for Windows which will play cue sheets with associated audio files? Cheers! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5374 (20100817) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com Johnny Chilelli Craftsman Certified Piano Tuner / Technician since 1978 Don't wait another minute! Call 814-450-LIFE or, 814-450-5433 and put the LIFE back into your piano! John Chilelli Piano Tuning And Repair Services Erie, PA Making Pianos Smile Everywhere! Home Office: 814-217-1880 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Fw: [The Conduit] FW: Attention Baseball Fans!
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