Worldbridges Megafeed
Assignment 3
No editing done in Audacity. All the fun was doing the streaming this week. I should have tried to hijack the real audio feed as well, but I didn't think about it until later. I'm still having difficulties making sure I have the id tags correct. I opened the mp3 in Audacity and opened changed info in the metadata editor and exported the mp3, but still when I open the file in itunes I see the Nicecast title/tag.
That was intense, so I did it again (actually 4 or 5 times )
Note: Make sure to follow Lee Barber's screencast
for proper Nicecast settings for headphones and ignore mine. Watch mine if you want to see the overall process.
Sound Card Requirements
I have summarized some resources about sound card requirements on my course notes 2.3 metalist:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf5_214gjr99k
After assessing my existing hardware and looking at some blog entries, I noticed that this issue has not
received much attention, even though the sound card is the central workhorse in webcasting.
A Day of Learning
I ran out on my lunch hour today to get a new headset microphone. I went with the Altec Lansing USB & analog. I thought it would work better than my Logitech desktop microphone. However, I never did get it to work... Thinking back on it now, I wonder if there was a setting in my Control Panel that I needed to change. Anyhow, I switched back to my desktop usb microphone.
Two-way Telephony Recording (Mac)
The Plugging Continues . . . .
As I said in the meeting on 2007-10-28, I'm limping along with
my two-way telephony recording. I've tried it a number of times
with both Nicecast and Audio Hijack Pro on my Mac, but the
results have not been acceptable; although I read through two
tutorials, I think I must have made a basic error in configuration.
"There must be more to life than this." Struggling to get the sound right
Sorry I can't upload Freddy Mercury singing,
1. I've spent (wasted?) hours playing around with two micros, Logitech USB and non-USB Typhoon. Typhoon sounds great.
I've changed all the variables ion various permutations , but have nothing very final to report.
2. I decided to delete and reinstall Simple Cast and VAC. That was a MISTAKE! New versions do not work at all, and throw up
messages (in German, no point in screenshots) :
Jane-Jiang-SpiceCN-Jiang-La-Audio Introduction-2007-10-28
Jeff Lebow's Graduation Class of 1.1
Academy Meeting 2.3.3 - Basic Streaming
Academy Meeting 2.3.3
Basic Streaming
October 28, 2007
Topic Page & Meeting Agenda
CORRECTION! URL for mp3, second webcast
Revised URL for Foodbridges 2 recording (mp3)
Thanks for pointing this out, Dennis "Phoenix" Oliver. I see the mistake. I altered the URL here, in this text box, and not by pressing the link button.
Just clicked from this page (above) and it worked.
Deborah Goodman-Telephony-2007-10-27
SusanDornberg_Telephony_2007_10_27
This is an identical recording to Jim's So you don't need to listen to both.
jim-dornberg-skypechat-2007-10-27
It works!
Thanks to Jose's video I was able to record a sample conversation with the Skype lady. I'm going to document everything here for future reference:
Properties for playback and recording were both set to C-media wave device.
Audio repeater settings: in- headset mic out- C-media wave device
Audacity preferences were both C-media
Skype options were both C-media
Week 2
Week 2 frustration
I have spent about 4 hours trying to get a recording from the Skype test call lady recorded.
I have succeeded in getting better sound on Audacity.
Oh and I am using Vista. My sticking point seems to be what do I need to have for the recording in on Audacity.
I think I have tried every setting and I can't get sounds off of Skype recorded.
I have looked everywhere for info.
derrallg Audio Assignment for Week #2
I think I have the correct path:
1. Set up Nicecast so it joins the Skype feed with the usb headphone mike feed,
2. Set up Audio hijack pro to record, installed hijack plugin so I don't have to restart Skype, and recorded call
3. Opened in Audacity (1.25 instead of 1.33 because of crashing problem), export as mp3 with bitrate set to 64.
4. Note had to re-export mp3 in audacity 1.33 in order to have the sampling rate be 44khz, 1.25 seems to export a stereo mix at 44khz and makes it 22khz or incompatible with Flash player.
"Keep talking..." Foodbridges 2 The technical side
I'll find out if there is a special place to put links, but here is where the Audacity recording of last night's Foodbridges 2 webcast is:
http://www.dennisnewson.de/FB2djn2610.mp3
The recording is OK, but the voices have an echo quality as if we were all sitting in caves. What could that be? What settings should be checked?