Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Nick. Thanks. I'll have to try Og sometime. - Original Message - From: "nick G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: best bit rate. It is, but I'd really like to advocate another format that can work. It's called O

Roxio5 and CD image files

2005-05-23 Thread stever2525
Hi, this is Steve. I am trying to help a friend who has Roxio 5 and wants to create an image file. I have Roxio 6, and use Creator Classic which I understand, so my options are not the same. It all sounds unfamiliar to me, thinking it would be similar. Also, I want to be sure the CDDB option is

Re: Ipodder won't install

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Will. After opening the iPodder program, if I leave it and go back into it, it says something "a version of iPodder is in use. You have to either kill it or," whater else it says, so I go into the system tray to use it. - Original Message - From: "Wil James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Good luck with that, Daniel. - Original Message - From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:29 PM Subject: Re: re unable to install Ipodder thanks. I didn't notice the domain name the first time. I'll give it a try this after

Winamp's Genres

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Matzura
Is it possible to edit, add to, or in any way at all manage, Winamp's table of genres? For one thing, I'd like to sort them so that I can press a letter and scroll through choices that begin with what I typed without having a few go by, then we're off into another letter entirely and I have to typ

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Sun Sparkle
yes, it is and sounds much much better also the file format helps bring out quiet parts in songs better then mp3. - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:13 PM Subject: Re: best bit rate. Is MP4 a smalle

Re: recording talking books

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Chaffin
Hi there, You can use CDex to record your talking books. I personally prefer to use a program like total recorder or goldwave. With these programs you can actually do the recording faster, plus you can edit the recorded file if needed. But of coarse total recorder and goldwave are not freewa

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Bruce, i think you are responding to another thread? Daniel - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:13 PM Subject: Re: re unable to install Ipodder First of all, you're not recording from an ASX file. Yo

RE: converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread Kevin Cussick
Yes, If you use a program like total recorder and play the file using win amp or real player then record it as mp3 your done or you can use a program such as simple mp3 maker or mp3 direct cut hope this helps. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread nick G
It is, but I'd really like to advocate another format that can work. It's called Ogg Vorbis, and is in CDex and others. At 64 KBPS, you get the sound quality equivalent of 128 KBPS. Thanks, nick - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. "

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Bruce Toews
First of all, you're not recording from an ASX file. You'd be recording from whatever file the ASX file references. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All T

Re: converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread Dana S. Leslie
well, I manage to find the same song on another free download site, already in mp3 format. But, for future reference, how would one go about doing what you suggest? How can I record from an asx file into Goldwave? - Original Message - From: "dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio dis

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
P.S. A note to anyone who tries this: When I first gave the command to download, Windows and IE prevented it, bragging that they were protecting my system from aliens. Following the instructions to do the easiest to figure out thing, I arrowed onto the Easynews link, hit enter, and the file b

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
got it. Thanks a lot. - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:12 PM Subject: Re: re unable to install Ipodder Hi Dan. As I mentioned, you can get the iPodder Beta by going to jeffbishop.net. I hope you

Re: Ipodder won't install

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Hi Will, thanks for the suggestion. But if that was the problem (I had no idea that iPodder might be in the sys tray, by the way, so thanks for mentioning it), I'd turned off the computer since yesterday and rebooted today, and the problem was gone. Of course, if I'd suspected that simply exit

Re: converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread dennis
YOU COULD RECORD IT WITH GOLDWAVE AND SAVE IT AS AN MP3 - Original Message - From: "Dana S. Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:32 PM Subject: Re: converting ASX to MP3 HMMM. That's discouraging. I can certainly play this asx file i

Re: Easy CD-DA Extractor 8.2 is now Available

2005-05-23 Thread Paul Henrichsen
I downloaded it and it ilstalled without me having to have a new key. Odd since it was said that this one needed a new key. At 5/22/2005, you wrote: I downloaded the 8.2 release and put in my email address for the new key and am still waiting. ___ P

Re: Ipodder won't install

2005-05-23 Thread Wil James
You did close out the program from the system tray first, didn't you? If not, this is most likely your problem. A file can't be written to if it is still in use, in this case, the executible for Ipodder is still used by your system. - This message was written

Re: converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread Dana S. Leslie
HMMM. That's discouraging. I can certainly play this asx file in either Realplayer or Windows Media Player. Is there no way to use either of them to save the data as either a wav or an mp3? - Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. "

Re: converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Skarstad
hi. as far as I can tell, you can't. an ASX file is a text file that references another file on the internet. So, as far as I know, this isn't possible. At 04:06 PM 5/23/2005, you wrote: What can I use to convert an asx file to an mp3 file? The converter in Easy CD-DA Creator doesn't seem to

Re: Minidisc recorder Drawback

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Matzura
I just checked again. USB for input only. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

converting ASX to MP3

2005-05-23 Thread Dana S. Leslie
What can I use to convert an asx file to an mp3 file? The converter in Easy CD-DA Creator doesn't seem to support converting asx files. Thanks. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from

Re: Minidisc recorder Drawback

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Matzura
On Mon, 23 May 2005 13:42:14 -0700, you wrote: >I believe you can hook it up to your computer via USB. That was not mentioned anywhere in the product page I read. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To uns

recording talking books

2005-05-23 Thread Temmons2004
Hi guys, was wondering how to record my talking books and put them into mp3 format to use on an mp3 player. I tried to use cdexp for this but couldn't figure it out. Any ideas would be helpfull. Thanks again and take care. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Gui

Re: Minidisc recorder Drawback

2005-05-23 Thread Jim Portillo
I believe you can hook it up to your computer via USB. Jim - Original Message - From: "Steve Matzura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:34 PM Subject: Minidisc recorder Drawback I just looked at the specs for the infamous Sony MZRH910. It's a fine li'l machine, but

Minidisc recorder Drawback

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Matzura
I just looked at the specs for the infamous Sony MZRH910. It's a fine li'l machine, but it's definitely not made for on-the-spot recording and digital extraction. Its only output is through the earphone jack--no digital outs available. If that's true, then what's an on-the-spot recordist using t

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
thanks. I didn't notice the domain name the first time. I'll give it a try this afternoon. Daniel (not Dan, at least not since I was a kid, fifty years ago; it's a generational thing. Our dads might have called themselves Bob, or Dan, or Mike. But we were Robert, Daniel and michael. So it g

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Hi, would you mind sharing with me about this? What's jeffbishop? And how does a person find the radio show? I know this woman is someone who appears a lot on the ACB radio site (I forgot the idiosyncratic phonetic spelling of her name, keep thinking the regular "m a r l e n e," which is the

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Is MP4 a smaller file than MP3? - Original Message - From: "Sun Sparkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:16 AM Subject: Re: best bit rate. try mp4 it also is a small compression and sounds much better then mp3. - Original Message

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Dan. As I mentioned, you can get the iPodder Beta by going to jeffbishop.net. I hope you can find it. It seemed easy to download and install. - Original Message - From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:04 PM Subject: Re:

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Dan. Well they should be writing scripts for it, but the thing is, podcasting is so new that people who write Jaws scripts haven't maybe caught onto the bug yet. - Original Message - From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Chris. I did download that Bata version of iPodder, but I downloaded it from jeffbishop.net. Marlaina's show last night did clear up a lot of the questions about the program. - Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Mon

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Chris, I pasted exactly what you supplied into the search terms box, minus the period at the end. I also chose from the bombo box to search all downloads, not just betas. I was returned about 150 results, the first page of which didn't include one single reference to IPodder. Have I done some

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Jay Williams
Wow, I occasionally wondered what the equivalent bit rate for a cd-quality mp3 is, now I know. Speaking of bits, what's the significance of a44-1khz 16-bit stereo file being designated as 14.11 kb and a 32khz stereo file being designated as 1024? Thanks, Jay - Original Message - From: "Sun

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
I'll do as you say, Crhis, but that seems contrary to the way search functions are set up anywhere else I use them, from my own Windows search function to The New York Times and Amazon. But okay, I'll just copy and paste the terms just as you've typed them below, and we'll see. Thanks a lot, D

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Skarstad
Hi Dan I think you have to be a little more specific. You have to actually type in iPodder 2.1 beta 1. Note that the i in iPodder is a lower case i and the p just after that is an uppercase. so, you would type something like, lower case i, upper case podder 2.1 beta 1 in the search box and don'

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Sun Sparkle
try mp4 it also is a small compression and sounds much better then mp3. - Original Message - From: "Jerry Richer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:34 AM Subject: Re: best bit rate. Billy! The best bit rate for you is the highest o

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Chris, I went to betanew.com and did the search you sugggested. Actually, I typed only Ipodder into the edit field, but that ought to have been sufficient. I stipulated with a radio button choice only to search for beta programs. All that came up was a version 1.1 for Linux. Did I do somethin

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Chris, that sounds cool. Believe me, not to be a wimp about it, but the last thing I want to mess with is an interface that requires all that Wild West messing around with the Jaws cursor and the num pad mouse keys. If that's the only way to navigate a program, I am disinclined to bother with

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Skarstad
Hi Dan Actually, I'm not offering the beta version at my site, but I certainly could if it would be convenient? Basically, there are a few different improvements, one being that you no longer have to do all kinds of right clicks and jaws cursor routing acrobatics to make sure your favorite show

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Hi Chris, No trouble spelling your name. I honestly just thought you liked to use "tunehead" as a nickname even though you sign your posts using your surname. No prob. Your or Gary's suggestion that a reboot might free up some of the files that the installation wizard needed turned out to be c

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Thank you. As I said, I never have used Ipodder. I hadn't yet gotten started learning it when I made the mistake of trying to replace it with a newer version because when I launched it, it advised me to. Note, please, that I didn't even get to the point where I would have found the newer ver

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Gary Wood
Well Chris has a link to download iPodder 2.0 on his Tunehead website. Maybe he can help you with the exact url. I know how frustrating it is to have a program that you use, and then you're not able to use it. I just thought I'd give you a suggestion. Maybe others will have more to offer. ---

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Chris Skarstad
hi. toonhead-online.com is my website. heheheh, and everyone spells my last name wrong, lol. it's actually s k a r s t a d anyways about iPodder. sometimes rebooting your computer may solve the problem because it might free up some files being used at the time. You may also have to go into the

Re: converting text to audio

2005-05-23 Thread Jerry Richer
Scott! You could use "Text To Audio" from Premier Assistive Technology for $69.95. If you purchase it from Chirping Bat then we pay the $7.95 shipping. Check it out at www.chirpingbat.com/premierprogramming.shtml. You could download the demo and try it before purchasing. Chirp|Chirp|Chirp:

Re: re unable to install Ipodder

2005-05-23 Thread Yardbird
Hello, as I have said already, I did uninstal. I have neither version of the program on my computer now. I have only both their installation .exec files, neither of which will run without an error message I described in detail in the message to which I believe you're responding. As for re-do

Re: Winamp Version 5.091 Final is now Available

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Matzura
On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:11:18 -0400, you wrote: >The file size I got for it was 4,971 KB, the size you quoted was 5,090,152. >The link routed me to Winamp's site. I tried it twice and got the same The file size I got was 8.55mb. ___ PC-Audio List Help

Re: best bit rate.

2005-05-23 Thread Jerry Richer
Billy! The best bit rate for you is the highest one that suits your needs. We only have MP3s because disk space is valuable and we'd like to fit as much material in as small a space as we can. It's a disk space verses audio quality decision. The larger the bit rate the better the audio qua