Audacity Forum

when MP3 was invented, they did not consider encoder/decoder delay, or did not think it was important, so the delay is not defined. Waste of effort. Timing is built in to the associated video. I have friends who tell of sharing movies in MPEG1 as a pile of CDs, not DVDs. If the pile was old enough,...

Was it the second interview?

Never mind. You said so.

Koz

Was it the second interview?

Koz

using Voice Memo to record the sound. On a what? Voice Memo is available on several different devices. Unfortunately one of the two sound files doesn't play. Do we know what happened? Did the device run out of battery? Did the memory fill up? file is missing moov atom From fuzzy memory that's the Q...

And yes I would not be shocked if Apple had original licenses from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and in Mac/iTunes you are using "the real thing" software.

Koz

Audacity doesn't encode MP3. It turns the work over to the Lame software that you had to install as a separate tool. Lame, in turn, is a simulacrum of the until now licensed software from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Anyone could play an MP3, but you needed a license to make one. Couple all that with MP...

It's not an actual multi-track when you deliver, right? Audacity smashes everything together into one mono track? Could this be the MP3 timing problem? MP3 can add some time to the length of the show. If it does that at the beginning, the show is actually longer than you think it is because it didn'...

Since you're not reading for audiobooks, I would probably apply mastering and that's enough. This is what that sounds like. sample22Mastered-NoNR.wav If you listen carefully, there's a gentle hum in the first two seconds (and behind your whole voice). That's the motor noise. The submission does pass...

You should not let the mastering publication scare you. The page is exhaustive description of only three tools. "The captain will notify us if she requires babies and small children scream loudly for the entire trip. Thank you for flying British Airways." I was visiting friends and we were...

That wasn't hard. sample22Mastered.wav Screen Shot 2019-03-02 at 15.32.14.png First three readings and sentence 2/3 down. You could easily read for audiobooks. If I apply plain Audiobook Mastering... https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering The performance passes audiobook specificatio...