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Audacity aiff import problems

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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:

Record the interview using Skype and Wiretap Pro (with Wiretap Pro set to save as mp3)
Import the mp3 file to Audacity and edit
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:

Import the aiff files into iTunes
Export from iTunes as mp3
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.

An LÃonra SÃ³isialta in iTunes

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Tom Raftery

on 17/10/2006

in Podcast, Podcasting and Technology

. 1 Comment

Conn’s podcast in the Irish language - An LÃonra SÃ³isialta is at position number 37 in iTunes!

The more people who subscribe to the podcast, the higher it will go in the listings.

Conn has also been nominated for a richly deserved Netvisionary award in the podcasting category - if you haven’t voted yet, head on over there and cast a vote - voting is open to all.

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.

Iâ€™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 youâ€™d like me to put to him, feel free to leave them in the comments and Iâ€™ll put them to him.

Zune to illegally add DRM to podcasts?

Published

Tom Raftery

on 28/9/2006

in Podcast, Web 2.0, iPod and mobile

. 7 Comments

Microsoft is to launch the Zune on November 14th according to its PR site.

This date is just in time for the American holiday of Thanksgiving. What is not clear from the site is if this is an American launch date of a global launch date.

I wrote, in not too glowing terms previously about the Zune. One criticism I missed at that time is that if someone shares one of my podcasts over wifi on the Zune, the Zune adds on its own DRM to my podcast, in direct contravention to my podcast’s Creative Commons Licence causing the podcast to self-destruct in three days or after three plays.

Can someone in Microsoft explain the legality of that to me please? ‘Cos to me, that’s just plain illegal.