email audio embedding & sound effects formats

[bgravato]

I completely agree on the mp3 vs wma... I hate wma and I'd never use it unless I didn't have any other option...
I don't like mp3's that much either hehe But unfortunately really free and open formats such as ogg vorbis and flac keep being ignore by the makers of the standard media playing software on the OSes you mentioned... I wonder if the fact that the makers of those media playing software are the some makers of proprietary formats have anything to do with it....

Sorry I won't comment on that other post of yours... I don't use windows, don't know that much about it and (believe it or not) I've never seen windows 7 in my life

[digiday]

I had only used Windows before October in an as necessary capacity in some work places... but in my industry and at home, Mac has always been the standard... then I helped a family member fix their PC that had a Vista/RAM meltdown and I installed Windows 7 for them and discovered that it is by far the most stable and reliable (Windows) OS ever... so I decided to add a Windows 7 machine to my arsenal of Macs so I'd have the best of two worlds, Mac and PC... this is a very nice OS that hasn't crashed even one time in over 3 months now... so it has a place along with my Macs.

I have WinFF that handles conversions from formats like ogg to MP3 and most anything, and now with the TiMidity to convert MIDIs to WAV, that steve was so invaluable in helping me install, I'm almost covered for anything... might just install Winamp and VLC, though I had a dumb experience with VLC messing up when converting WMV video files to MPG format, so I have a little thing about VLC now... WinFF does an amazing job in batch conversions and one to one conversions in a quick, effortless transition... plus Audacity is so great... I just started getting in to the effects, running sound effects clips in reverse, etc., etc... I made a great 3.5 minute compilation of opening song clips and sound effects that just comes across as insane.

I was considering going back to that old Beatles album in Audacity to try to run that part about Paul backwards to see if it really said he is dead (silly)... people only wished they had something like Audacity on a home computer back when that album came out... which song was that?

But I'm just experiencing this problem with whatever is keeping this PC from doing streaming desktop audio recording and now this problem with the mic... one of the deals with installing Audacity on this PC was supposed to be because it would handle things like streaming desktop audio recording better than Mac handles it.

Thanks,

digiday

[steve]

My preferred method of sending media via e-mail is just to include a link. For example:



"Hi Flossy, turn on your computer sound then click HERE"

[bgravato]

so I decided to add a Windows 7 machine to my arsenal of Macs so I'd have the best of two worlds, Mac and PC...

I beg to disagree... best of two worlds would be Mac and Linux

[digiday]

steve and bgravato,

Ideally, it would be the best of 3 worlds, Mac, Windows and Linux... and even that doesn't cover all of the worlds... there's also GNU, Unix, Solaris, Umbuntu, Debian, BeOS, OS2, MS-DOS, OpenBSD, Really aBFD and Really aBMFD... I think those last two are still in development... plus just a few others at the link below... I think I'd run out of space for computers if I were to try to have one of each... studio apartments just aren't built for this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems

And as for steve's trick to get unwilling friends to click on his links, that would be like handing someone a chunk of unidentifiable brown stuff and saying "here, eat this"... I don't know anyone around anymore who likes to just blindly click on links that say "click HERE"... except me of course, and I did laugh very hard at your link... I like the funky disco backbeat that accompanies the barnyard singers... when I laughed I went "baaaa".

Is Flossy a dentist or a rancher?

PS: That's a pretty nifty trick with "audacity.easyspacepro.com"... is that only for important people?

digiday

[steve]

that would be like handing someone a chunk of unidentifiable brown stuff and saying "here, eat this"...

Making something "auto-play" is like saying "here eat this" but denying the recipient the opportunity to refuse.

I think I'd run out of space for computers if I were to try to have one of each...

On my laptop I can run Ubuntu (main OS), Vista, XP, Ubuntu (experimental).
Vista is set up as a "dual boot" option (it was pre-installed on the laptop and I've retained it for testing purposes).
XP and an experimental build of Ubuntu are installed as "virtual machines" (using VirtualBox) and run inside my main Ubuntu OS.
Many modern processors include support for "hardware virtualization" which enables virtual machines to run at full speed (as if they were the only operating system installed). My laptop's processor does not support hardware virtualization, so there is a slight performance hit, but both XP and the experimental Ubuntu build still run well enough to be usable (I use them mostly for testing Audacity).

[digiday]

Hey stevo,

steve wrote:
On my laptop I can run Ubuntu (main OS), Vista, XP, Ubuntu (experimental).
Vista is set up as a "dual boot" option (it was pre-installed on the laptop and I've retained it for testing purposes).
XP and an experimental build of Ubuntu are installed as "virtual machines" (using VirtualBox) and run inside my main Ubuntu OS.

Talk about multiple personalities... is your computer named "Sybil ?"...
click here for unidentifiable chunks of brown stuff/Sybil info

steve wrote:

digiday wrote:
that would be like handing someone a chunk of unidentifiable brown stuff and saying "here, eat this"...

steve wrote:
Making something "auto-play" is like saying "here eat this" but denying the recipient the opportunity to refuse.

Personally, I'm forced to eat very identifiable, undesirable chunks of brown stuff and denied the opportunity to refuse every day... it's called "my life".

And speaking of multiple personalities, that other digiday posted this thread under "Audio Processing"... not sure if you already saw it...
click here to go to an unidentifiable chunky brown place on this forum

digiday

[steve]

I've replied by PM (see link to "messages" at top of page).