AAC for ipods ? anyone ?
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From: Mark on 13 Jan 2010 05:11 On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:23:26 +0000, David Kennedy wrote (in article <N9GdndzDuYpz6dDWnZ2dnUVZ8nVi4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>): > SM wrote: >> David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >> >>> SM wrote: >>>> >>>> Wave Editor will import and export .flac although I've never needed to: >>>> >>>> <http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/> >>> >>> Thanks Stuart. I'll have a look at that. >> >> It's very good in general, but for editing .flac files it might be a bit >> like using Pages to edit Word docs as opposed to working natively. >> >> Stuart > > All I really need is something to convert the odd file. > > MacFlac? Max? Not used these, but for some reason I have them in my apps folder. I think I was trying to convert some .flac files many months go. Cheers ... Mark
From: David Kennedy on 13 Jan 2010 07:20 Mark wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:06 +0000, SM wrote > (in article<1jc8880.17y28wrvmdf40N%info(a)that.sundog.co.uk>): > >> David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >> >>> SM wrote: >>>> >>>> Wave Editor will import and export .flac although I've never needed to: >>>> >>>> <http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/> >>> >>> Thanks Stuart. I'll have a look at that. >> >> It's very good in general, but for editing .flac files it might be a bit >> like using Pages to edit Word docs as opposed to working natively. >> >> Stuart >> > > Here's a little dookickey that's supposed to let you play .flac files in > iTunes without converting: > > <http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/> > > Cheers ... Mark > Worth a look. Thanks. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Rowland McDonnell on 13 Jan 2010 16:25 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > SM wrote: > > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > > >> SM wrote: > >>> > >>> Wave Editor will import and export .flac although I've never needed to: > >>> > >>> <http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/waveeditor/> > >> > >> Thanks Stuart. I'll have a look at that. > > > > It's very good in general, but for editing .flac files it might be a bit > > like using Pages to edit Word docs as opposed to working natively. > > > > Stuart > > All I really need is something to convert the odd file. I've found Max to be generally the least annoying for that job, IIRC. <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28353> Rowland. (working from memory - caveat emptor. Cave canem. Erm. Nope, can't figure it out.) -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 13 Jan 2010 19:04 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > Soundstudio, cubase, logic, amadeus - most applications that write audio > > > > at any sort of level since system 7 I would have thought. > > > > > > You know that's bullshit - I've never seen a reference to compressed > > > AIFF before you mentioned it, so that tells me hardly anything can play > > > the format. You could only think of professional apps - no QuickTime, I > > > notice... > > > > Load up the old QuickTime 7 Player on your Intel 10.6 box (it should be > > QuickTime Pro). > > Which I've not bought, so that's out. > > > Load an audio file into it. > > But I'm not going to pay money to buy QT Pro just to look at this. > > > Choose "File->Export..." > > But I'm not going to pay money to buy QT Pro just to look at this. > > > Click the 'Export:' dropdown and choose "Sound to Aiff" > > But I'm not going to pay money to buy QT Pro just to look at this. > > > Click 'Options..." > > But I'm not going to pay money to buy QT Pro just to look at this. > > > The 'Format:' dropdown currently says "Linear PCM" which is indeed > > uncompressed. There are two others in there though, "IMA 4:1" and > > "Quallcomm PureVoice". The Quallcomm one I don't know about, but the IMA > > 4:1 format offers 4:1 compression (as you might have gathered by the > > name) > > But I'm not going to pay money to buy QT Pro just to look at this. > > I'm puzzled - that surely is lossy, since there seems no way to compress > *any* audio file that much without data loss. Hmm. RTFW. Yep, it's > lossy. Lossy compression is not what we're talking about. There are many ways of compressing *any* file that isn't entirely random. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Rowland McDonnell on 13 Jan 2010 19:46
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > It seems to be embedded into the genes of Manchester live music > > > organisers that 5% THD is optimum. > > > > I don't understand what this means. I tried reading the wiki on Total > > Harmonic Distortion, but I guess I'm getting a bit fick in my old age > > cos I didn't really understand the guts of it. > > > > Is 5% a good thing because it's not very much, and it used to be 10%? > > Is 5% a bad thing because it's way too much and it should be .001%? > > > > It should be as low as possible. In the house, on your stereo, 1% THD > would be awful. Not necessarily. THD is not the guide you might think it is. 1% THD isn't that bad overall - and is quite normal from a lot of decent stereos. I'm not talking about the electrons coming out of the amplifier, I'm talking about the reconstruction of the wavefront. 1% THD of the normal sort out of a conventional modern amp - yes, that's nasty in a domestic setting, but you try cranking up an old valve amp until it's running into distortion. Not a painful experience at all. But there are other forms of assessment that give you different data that's more useful than just THD when you gather it all into a set. Yer intermodulation distortion, transient response, things like that. Thing is, THD is easy to measure. But it's a steady state thing, and music ain't steady. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |