[bmstinton93]

15th January link isn't working?

[slaphead1982]

15th January link isn't working?

Should be good to go now.

[ianpwilliams]

Yeah it's all good now. And to celebrate:

Monday 22nd January 2007
Tuesday 23rd January 2007

[ianpwilliams]

It's best to just do one when you half an hour spare or something, rather than trying to do some every day. There's no rush to get them done after all. And as long you've got a program and computer that can allow you to edit quickly, then as you edit more and more you'll get faster at it. I can normally edit a show in 15 minutes now, so I tend to do two shows at once just whenever I have half an hour spare.

[bmstinton93]

Right, i'm gonna order a new hard drive to Uni in the next couple of days. Then when I get back Monday I'll recover everything and upload the 4 or so shows I've already edited and those 4 2005 shows of Jamie's.

Then I can get back into the editing again. I can do a show in 20 minutes now it's just the exporting from audacity and uploading which takes time but I'm gonna be revising a lot so I can do that while revising and then take like 20 minute breaks to edit a show down. I'm gonna try and pick up the pace a bit with these shows if I can.

[ianpwilliams]

Try getting hold of Sound Forge if you can. It's the dogs knees.

[bmstinton93]

Is it free? And why is it better than audacity?

[ianpwilliams]

No it's not free. But I just find it quicker and easier to use. Having said that, I was using Audacity on my dad's computer and everything was really slow-going, but that was probably because of his computer rather than Audacity itself. Especially if you're editing them in 20 minutes.

[bmstinton93]

I'll see if I can get it off pirate bay.

[ianpwilliams]

I wouldn't bother if you're editing a show in 20 minutes. It took me literally an hour to edit one show on my dad's computer using Audacity, but I'm sure that was because of his computer (and probably his sound card).

[bmstinton93]

Ah okay that's fine then. I'm used to audacity now anyway.

[neilt0]

If you're editing MP3s, try mp3directcut -- it does lossless editing. With Audacity and virtually every other sound editor, if you edit an MP3 and re-save it as an MP3, it recodes the MP3, losing quality. mp3directcut lets you edit and leave the audio as-is.

A recode of an encode is a bad idea.

This was an edit I did with mp3directcut: http://www.mediafire.com/?1lov7j1ut5abzbz it even has fades -- only the fade parts get recoded, everything else was left alone as per the original file. Clever stuff.

[ianpwilliams]

Yeah, I convert Jamie's ra files to wav, then edit them, then save as mp3. Takes a massive amount of HD space while they are wav's though.

Might give that mp3directcut a look as well though.

[ianpwilliams]

Wednesday 24th January 2007
Thursday 25th January 2007

[jamiec21]

If you're editing MP3s, try mp3directcut -- it does lossless editing. With Audacity and virtually every other sound editor, if you edit an MP3 and re-save it as an MP3, it recodes the MP3, losing quality. mp3directcut lets you edit and leave the audio as-is.

A recode of an encode is a bad idea.

Indeed. Most of my ra files up until September 2007 are only 32k in the first place - you really wouldn't want to be, for example, converting a 32k ra file to a 128k mp3 then re-encoding to another 128k mp3. Would sound truly dreadful, all those compression artefacts are very hard to listen to, especially on headphones.

Frrom September 2007, the ra streams were then encoded at 64k, this is the case for the majority of the files I have until around April 2010, when I began recording the direct Freeview radio stream which are 192k mp2 - they can also be edited losslessly with mp3directcut. I have been using that program for a number of years now, can thoroughly recommend it for editing, only a small program and is very easy to use. My personal preference is to convert ra to wav, edit the wav, then save as mp3, but I guess converting ra to mp3 directly and editing the mp3 and saving with without re-encoding is pretty much the same.

[bmstinton93]

I've downloaded mp3DirectCut. Its a lot more complicated than Audacity. May need some tips.

[neilt0]

I've downloaded mp3DirectCut. Its a lot more complicated than Audacity. May need some tips.

It has a short, but steep learning curve. Once you work out how to highlight stuff (left and right mouse buttons), you can edit stuff really quickly. Play around with some dummy files and read the help/docs.

[ianpwilliams]

Friday 26th January 2007
Monday 29th January 2007

[ianpwilliams]

Tuesday 30th January 2007
Wednesday 31st January 2007

That's January done. One down, eleven to go.

[Nicola_Red]

Ian, when you get to the show with the first Golden Hour, can you make a note please? Just so I know when to stop checking Friday shows for the Tedious. Thankyou

[ianpwilliams]

I'll make a note to remind myself when it comes up. I wonder if anyone might know what show it was?

[Nicola_Red]

I'm sure it's been mentioned somewhere on the forum before, but I can't find it from a search. I'm pretty sure it was in the summer of 2007 but that's as much as I remember.

[jamiec21]

From a quick listen, 21st September 2007 was the first one.

[Nicola_Red]

Cheers Jamie. So...many...tedious...links!

[ianpwilliams]

Thursday 1st February 2007
Friday 2nd February 2007

So many shows!