[studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how can I fix this problem?

  • From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey00@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:24:53 -0400

Harry,

 

The reason you don't see many podcasts (including ViewPoints!) in WAV format
is pretty simple.  It all comes down to bandwidth and storage.  WAV files,
being uncompressed can often be as much as 10 times larger than an MP3
version of the same material.  As others on this list have pointed out, MP3
is a lossy format.  The idea is to try and throw out material that the
average human ear isn't sensitive to in order to minimize the perceived
difference in audio quality between the original and compressed audio.

 

Folks putting out podcasts try to minimize the size of the audio by
selecting the quality of compression for the final MP3 file.  This is a
trade off between quality, the type of material in the audio (i.e., voice
vs. music), and the amount of storage and bandwidth they want to pay for on
their host servers.

 

Rarely will people record the original audio in an MP3 format since, once it
is compressed into MP3 format, there is no going back and retaining the
original audio quality.

 

Hope that clarifies the situation with MP3 and why you see it all over the
place rather than WAV.

 

--Pete

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From: studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Brown
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:09 PM
To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how
can I fix this problem?

 

Hi David,

I hear ya, and I know it's compressed.

So, why don't we tell everybody who's making podcasts, to do them in .wav
format, and then, it's fine.

Harry

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Tanner, David (DEED) <mailto:david.tanner@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:18 PM

Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how
can I fix this problem?

 

Harry,

 

Here is what you are missing.  An MP3 file is a compressed file, similar to
a zip file.  You can't edit a file that is zipped until you uncompress it,
and that is the same reason an MP3 file has to be uncompressed before you
can use it.

 

 

 

From: studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Brown
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:01 PM
To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how
can I fix this problem?

 

Hi chase,

But that process, is takes time, and is not good file editing management.

A user should be able to go and edit it, in the format it's already in.

Harry

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Chase Crispin <mailto:chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>  

To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:38 PM

Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how
can I fix this problem?

 

To add to what Mary has said, you can change a mp3 to a wav in studio
recorder by doing the following.
1.   Open the mp3 file as you usually would.
2.  Go to the file menu by pressing alt+f.
3.  Down arrow to or press d to get to decode. This will make your mp3 file
a wav file.
4.  Once the decode process has completed, go to the file menu again and
choose save as. Find where you want to save the file and press save. A wav
copy of the file will now be saved on your hard drive.
Thanks,

 
 
 
 
Chase Crispin
http://www.blindmobiletech.com/
chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:studiorecorder-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Emerson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:33 PM
To: studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [studiorecorder] Re: I'm so frustrated with studio recorder, how
can I fix this problem?

Harry,

You're confusing us; it's hard to figure out whether you're in studio
recorder when you find the .wav file, or if you're in studio recorder and
you find an MP3 file. Or are you looking at a file in a file list, outside
studio recorder, and want to convert it? if you're in Studio Recorder and
want to save a .wav file as an MP3 file, you can export it as MP3; the word
is export, not save. To get to the export dialog, press alt, arrow down to
export as mp3, and press enter.

If you have an mP3 file and want to convert it to .wav, there is third-party
software, such as switch, that can convert file formats. Or, if you're in
studio recorder and want to bring in an mp3 file to edit, use import, or
control-i. It will take a while because studio recorder has to convert the
mp3 file to .wav before it can work with it.

Mary

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