Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:58 pm. 13 comments
How to import songs into itunes is easy. You just put the CD in, select it in itunes, and click on advanced - convert selection to MP3.
That’s it - Easy!
But, the default setting on itunes is not the best setting to use when importing songs. In fact, there is a better way to import songs that uses a program called LAME. This article describes how to import songs into itunes using the better quality of the LAME encoder.
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Posted 10 months ago at 9:50 pm. 1 comment
>if I want to convert some aiff files to mp3 to be downloaded from net…
> what specs should I aim at to keep size down but quality ok…
These are the settings I use for good quality speech in itunes: Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 7:04 pm. 0 comments
I’ve been playing round with getting good quality compressed speech.
Here’s what I’ve found.
1. SMALLEST FILE SIZE ACCEPTABLE QUALITY.
For very small file size (4MB for 20 minutes) and acceptable quality,
use the LAME encoder (the the separate article on Itunes songs to find out about the LAME encoder) with the following arguments in the ‘Encoding options’ Box:
-V 9 –vbr-new -mm -h -q 0
2. An even better option than above but slightly more complicated is:
Firstly convert the file to 22khz sample rate and mono, (eg in Audacity)
then use the following LAME settings:
-V 8 –vbr-new -h -q 0
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Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 7:36 pm. 0 comments
Just found this software.
The Amazing Slow Downer
It’s great. It allows you to slow down music, keeping the pitch the same. There’s lots of software that will do this but this is well implemented with lots of nice features, and a good algorithm that sounds good even with big slow downs.
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 3:07 pm. 3 comments
Here’s a pretty good way to record speech on the macintosh, and have it sound OK for listening to over the internet. Continue Reading…