Hi Anton--
You gotta love the interface. Good choice on your school's part.
I created a directory and started uploading an 800K .mp3. About 5-6
seconds later, a prompt said, "File is too large." There is a command
change the maximum file size in bytes.
http://ad2004.hku.nl/index.php?action=3Dhelp . How do you see the files
that are in the directory?
Being able to maintain the links on whatever resource we use over
time might be a high priority.
I imagine your host space at school goes when you do, right?
Rob D.
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At 9:26 AM +0200 6/26/06, Anton Woldhek wrote:
>Hi Rob,
>As an experiment, try: http://ad2004.hku.nl
>Username: game
>Password: sound
>
>If it works out ill see if I can squeeze some more milage out of my tuitio=
n
>fees :)
>
>Cheerio
>Anton Woldhek
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van:
>> Namens Rob Danielson
>> Verzonden: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:31 AM
>> Aan:
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Nature Recordists] How would you clean up this file?
>>
>> Hi Gerry & Ed--
>>
>> I also was able to get normal playback (without the waivering
>> lower mid tone that seems to stem from the bees?) by working
>> from Dana's original .wav file.
>>
>> It could be that the cause was double M-S encoding as Dana
>> speculated. I've also heard digital noise reduction plugs
>> like Sound Soap create a similar effect. In any case, I'm
>> doubtful that the waivering/companded effect was the result
>> entirely of the mp3 encoding, which, I believe was at 128 kbs.
>>
>> I'm okay with people using 192-320 kbs MP3's-- even better if
>> there's a uncompressed.wav or .aif download option too.
>>
>> It would be an asset if we had a couple of GB's of host space
>> to upload snippets to-- especially because people use our
>> archives and a great majority of our links die. I hesitate to
>> upload meaningless fragments to Prelinger and similar
>> archives. We might be able to make 2 GB last a long time with
>> a policy of deleting files over 4mb? every 12 months. We
>> could also selectively retain >4mb files that get sustained
>> use. Rob D.
>>
>> =3D =3D =3D =3D
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>> At 4:19 AM +0000 6/26/06, 1GDW wrote:
>> >I have encoded the DawnChorusMS.wav using Lame and I believe this
>> >MP3 is much better than the MP3 link. I would post it to the file
>> >section for comparison but the files in there are taking 97% 0f the
>> >space.
>> >
>> >Gerald White Muscatine, IA
>> >
>> >--- In Ed Anson <>
>> >wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dana,
>> >>
>> >> The WAV file sounds much better than the mp3. It's a pretty good
>> >> recording. This reminds me of why I almost never use mp3 encoding.
>> >>
>> >> I still don't hear much of the hiss you are worried about. But my
>> >son
>> >> does. I think that's due to the relative ages of our ears. I took
>> >a
>> >> quick look with a spectral analyzer and found an unusual
>> amount of
>> >> energy above 15 kHz. Combining that information with the one
>> >annoying
>> >> sound I heard (the constant drone of insects) makes me think that
>> >there
>> >> were a lot of insects in the area and they are making a lot of
>> >high
>> >> frequency noise. That makes me think that gentle use of a
>> low pass
>> >> filter might improve things a bit.
>> >>
>> >> Now I can also hear the rumble. Although it's not as annoying (to
>> >me)
>> >> as the drone of the insects, a high pass filter does reduce it a
>> >bit
>> >> and seems to clarify the rest of the sounds.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, I don't know of anything that will remove the
>> >constant
>> >> insect noise without harming other sounds. So let's just be
>> >purists and
>> >> say that it's a part of what was there in Nature. OTOH I
>> would be
>> >> inclined to edit out the motorcycle noise at the end.
>> >>
>> >> Ed
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jun 25, 2006, at 6:19 AM, Dana Blackmer wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Rob,
>> >> >
>> >> > Here are two links - the first is to an uncompressed portion of
> > >the
>> >> > file
>> >> > before MS to XY decoding (it's a 70 second wav file, so will
>> >take a
>> >> > little
>> >> > while to load). The second is the same file with MS decoding
>> >and
>> >> > converted
>> >> > to mp3. I've included the mp3 version here because after I
>> >tried to
>> >> > retrace my steps from my original post, I think that there is a
>> >50/50
>> >> > chance that I mistakenly used an already decoded version of the
>> >file
>> >> > and
>> >> > decoded it a second time before saving it as an mp3.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks for the help.
>> >> >
>> >> > Dana
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.danablackmer.com/AudioFiles/DawnChorusMS.wav
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.danablackmer.com/AudioFiles/DawnChorusXY.mp3
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > At 09:00 PM 6/24/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> At 2:23 PM +0000 6/24/06, Dana Blackmer wrote:
>> >> >>> Can this sound be filtered out or diminished without >>>
>> >> getting the "blurby" sounds I sometimes get with a filter?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi Dana--
>> >> >> It seems like you should have a good recording there, but there
>> >is
>> >> >> something peculiar going on isn't there? Any chance you can
>> >post a
>> >> >> portion of the file uncompressed-- a straight copy of the field
>> > > >> original, no m-s decoding? Best, Rob D.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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