From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 12:26:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B56637B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636D843EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 50279 invoked by uid 7794); 4 Jan 2003 20:28:03 -0000 Received: from joe@dubium.com by fafner.dubium.com by uid 7791 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.009165 secs); 04 Jan 2003 20:28:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wotan.dubium.com) ([192.168.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jan 2003 20:28:03 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: joe To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: audio tape recordings to mp3 - advice and experience sought Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:27:48 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301041227.48165.joe@dubium.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am looking for some practical advice to achieve the "optimal" quality mp3 recordings. On clean recordings of music CDs using cdparanoia I use the "--alt-preset standard" setting for lame which gives excellent results. My sources in this case are not as clean. I have a cassette tape deck attached to the line-in and am making stereo-44Khz recordings which I call the raw wav files (no signal processing yet). These recordings are all medium-good quality speech. I can use any of the following tools - gramofile, audacity, and lame to process and encode. I've looked at the signal processing function of each of the tools and I am not sure what is most appropriate or if they should be used in sequence or what is most appropriate for cleaning up speech (given the limited dynamic range) ------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Sotham ------------------------------------------------------------- If the only prayer you say in your entire life is "Thank You", that will suffice. - Meister Eckhart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message