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Audacity aiff import problems

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Tom Raftery
on 26/10/2006
in Audio, IT@Cork, Interviews, PodLeaders, Podcast and Podcasting
. 3 Comments

Audacity is an open source, cross-platform sound editing application. It is the sound editor I use for producing the PodLeaders and it@cork podcasts.

The process I use for producing the podcasts was:

  1. Record the interview using Skype and Wiretap Pro (with Wiretap Pro set to save as mp3)
  2. Import the mp3 file to Audacity and edit
  3. Export as mp3 and publish

After a recent conversation with Doug Kaye, I decided to try his Levelator application to get the levels on the recordings the same. This meant I had to change Wiretap Pro to output to aiff ( a lossless format) instead of mp3.

I did this and recorded a number of interviews successfully, saving the interviews as aiff. However, yesterday, when I went to edit the first of those interviews, I was disappointed that the Levelator couldn’t work with the files (gave an error and stopped trying to level them).

However, I was horrified when I tried importing the files into Audacity only to find that the imported files had massive echo problems, echo problems (!). No matter what I tried I couldn’t get rid of the echo and it made the audio useless.

Finally, I hit on a solution:

  1. Import the aiff files into iTunes
  2. Export from iTunes as mp3
  3. Import the mp3 file into Audacity - no echo (phew!)

I should have hit on this solution sooner but it had been a long day!

Any questions for Kim Cameron?

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Tom Raftery
on 18/10/2006
in Interviews, PodLeaders, Podcast and Technology
. 2 Comments

Kim Cameron is Microsoft’s Identity Chief and as such is responsible for developing InfoCard - Microsoft’s successor to the much reviled Passport. Kim elucidated the Seven Laws of Identity and is developing InfoCard to conform to those laws. If he manages this, he will have changed fundamentally how Microsoft deals with people.

Kim is also responsible for Microsoft recently releasing 35 pieces of IP and promising to never charge for them.

I will be interviewing Kim this coming Tuesday (Oct 24th) for a PodLeaders podcast - if you have any questions you’d like me to ask Kim, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Any questions for Doug Kaye?

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Tom Raftery
on 11/10/2006
in Interviews, PodLeaders, Podcast, Podcasting and Technology
. 2 Comments

I’ll be interviewing Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network and GigaVox Media this afternoon for a PodLeaders podcast.

Doug has been podcasting since before the term was invented!

As always, if you have any questions you’d like me to put to Doug, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Any questions for Dan Bricklin?

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Tom Raftery
on 6/10/2006
in Interviews, PodLeaders, Podcast and Web 2.0
. 6 Comments

Dan Bricklin is the inventor of the spreadsheet. Dan, along with Bob Frankston released the world’s first spreadsheet, called VisiCalc in 1979.

Dan has worked on many projects since and recently has started work on wikiCalc - an open source, online spreadsheet application.

I’m interviewing Dan this coming Tuesday afternoon (10th Oct 2006) for a PodLeaders podcast. We will be talking about VisiCalc, his new application WikiCalc and anything else that may arise in the questions!

As always, if you have questions you’d like me to put to him, feel free to leave them in the comments and I’ll put them to him.

Any questions for Jeff Nolan?

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Tom Raftery
on 4/10/2006
in IT@Cork, Interviews, Podcasting and Technology
. 3 Comments

Jeff Nolan is a former executive at SAP (Jeff led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP - aka the Oracle Attack group) and recently joined a silicon valley startup called Teqlo.

I will be interviewing Jeff tomorrow for the IT@Cork pre-conference podcast series.

If you have any questions you would like me to put to him, feel free to leave them in the comments.

UPDATE - this interview has been postponed until Tuesday Oct. 10th so you still have time to get your questions in!

Any questions for Sam Sethi?

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Tom Raftery
on 28/8/2006
in Interviews, PodLeaders and Web 2.0
. 1 Comment

Sam Sethi is an entrepreneur, technologist (entrepologist) and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years for companies like Microsoft (strategy director in MSN UK ), Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Most recently Sam has been charged with setting up TechCrunch UK.

I’m interviewing Sam this Wednesday morning (30th Aug 2006) for a PodLeaders podcast. We will be talking about TechCrunch, the Live Web (Web 2.0) and anything else that may arise in the questions!

As always, if you have questions you’d like me to put to him, feel free to leave them in the comments and I’ll put them to him.

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