Re: text to speech program

hi, ivona voices are great, Billy - Original Message - From: "Paul (Pawel) Loba" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 7:57 AM Subject: RE: text to speech program Hi, Have a look at IVONA voices: www.ivona.com For this type of use you need to pay attenti

Re: M-audio 2496 and windows 7?

Many thanks Dave and Joe for the replies. It looks likely then that I may have to look for a more current alternative. Best, Tim. Bangor, N. Ireland. Skype: tim-crawford - Original Message - From: "Dave bahr" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:12

karaoke night.

hi guys, I have been asked by friends to be the Jock at their new year karaoke party. I have never done such a thing before, and I'm now in a panic. If anyone can advise me or give me some tips on running this party, it would be great. The other query; I'm going to use my laptop computer for pla

encoding older music

Hi folks! I again dare to open the can of worms which is the encoding of music which is downloaded from the internet. But today I have a different slant. For reasonably new stuff I do not believe that you can compromise especially when it comes to music with large orchestras. 320 mp3 3

Re: karaoke night.

Here's the big problem, how are you going to get the lyrics up for the singer to see them? In many situations, there's a screen that has the lyrics so the person can refer to them while sining. twitter http://www.twitter.com/richardclaypool last.fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer msn bell

Re: karaoke night.

Richard, I was thinking of connecting the laptop to a wall mounted television, and that is where a dedicated karaoke player would do its stuff hopefully, Billy - Original Message - From: "Richard Claypool" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 5:11 PM Subje

Re: karaoke night.

Hi. I have a feeling winamp is going to be your friend through this. First of all most karaoke songs use standard mp3's with a cdg file which is the video file containing lyrics. With winamp and a few plugins it is possible to have everything ready to go in one shot. Plus, using the winamps jump

Re: encoding older music

Once music started being recorded on tape, (1950 and later), the quality is sufficiently good that you might not want to compromise. Prior to that, you can get away with it more. On the other hand, do you want to risk introducing even more degradation to something that's already pretty bad? Als

Re: karaoke night.

hi Brett, The winamp road seems like the best way to go as you say. The files in question will be mp3 cdg mostly. I was just looking for some kinda player to play these files in zip format, which would be a lot easier to choose, but I like the sound of winamp. Can you tell me the latest winamp v

Re: encoding older music

You can get away also with lower bitrates with metal, provided it's 192 kbps. For older music from the 60's and back, the technology of the time wasn't as good, and they weren't harnessing stereo to it's fullest. Take the beatles for example, allot of their stuff is split, you'd have the vocals

Re: karaoke night.

Hey. I don't know the latest winamp version but I seem to recall some kind of karaoke plugin that not only displays the cdg but also will open a zip file. I could be wrong or the plugin could be out-of-date. I'll poke around a little and see what I find and I know there are some hardcore winamp

Re: karaoke night.

thanks for this Brett, Billy - Original Message - From: "Brett Boyer" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:27 PM Subject: Re: karaoke night. Hey. I don't know the latest winamp version but I seem to recall some kind of karaoke plugin that not only disp

witch version of Express burn to purchase

Hi I have been using Express Burn for about a week now and the other day. When I went to use it. The program told me that my free trial was going to expire soon. It wanted me to click to see what purchasing options were avliable. the last time I went to the web site for Express Burn. I seen two ve

Re: encoding older music

Well, the stereo was different in the 70's, but I don't know if you can say it was better. Certainly what Hendrix, Zappa, and others were doing with stereo in the 60's was arguably a much fuller exploitation of the possibilities of stereo than what went on later. And it's very hard to claim tha

RE: encoding older music

Dave I use a NAD amplifier with a good pair of british speakers and an older Emagic USB sound card which was when it came out supposed to be very high quality. So you will understand why I am asking about bit rate now. Also another thing that prompted my question: I am getting some stuff from u