"Pops" During Playback
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"Pops" During Playback
I recently used Audacity to get a concert I had recorded with my jazz band at Miami (OH) onto a CD but found that no matter how slowly I burned the CD, there were loud "pops" in spots. I did not crop it into individual song tracks and wonder if this makes a difference (i.e., I was given a CD with the whole thing in one WAV file with no stops). Thanks.
Re: "Pops" During Playback
Does the recording play in Audacity without pops?
Does the Exported wav/Aiff file play without pops?
Does the Exported wav/Aiff file play without pops?
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kozikowski
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Re: "Pops" During Playback
Audacity defaults to 32-bit floating for one of its sound file specifications. That makes a dandy editing quality, but many music CD authoring programs have no idea what that is.
Open up the show in QuickTime Player and press Apple-I to get the INFO panel. A good pre-burn panel will say 44100, 16-bit AIFF or WAV. You can even have an MP3 file and have it work OK, but 32-bit floating may not work so well.
If you have QuickTime Pro ($30-US), you may be able to just export the show to AIFF 44100 16 bit right there and I bet the pops go away. I'm not sure you can do that directly in Audacity, but that maybe possible, too.
You do know you need a CD Authoring Program, right? You can't just drag the sound file over to a blank CD on the desktop. Open the show in iTunes, make a playlist with the show in it and burn by following the instructions.
I personally would break the show up into songs with Audacity, but I may be getting ahead of the game.
Koz
Open up the show in QuickTime Player and press Apple-I to get the INFO panel. A good pre-burn panel will say 44100, 16-bit AIFF or WAV. You can even have an MP3 file and have it work OK, but 32-bit floating may not work so well.
If you have QuickTime Pro ($30-US), you may be able to just export the show to AIFF 44100 16 bit right there and I bet the pops go away. I'm not sure you can do that directly in Audacity, but that maybe possible, too.
You do know you need a CD Authoring Program, right? You can't just drag the sound file over to a blank CD on the desktop. Open the show in iTunes, make a playlist with the show in it and burn by following the instructions.
I personally would break the show up into songs with Audacity, but I may be getting ahead of the game.
Koz
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waxcylinder
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Re: "Pops" During Playback
Sure you can - I have Audacity set at 32-bit floating 44.1kHz for capture and editing - and then when I export I use Audacity to downsample to 16-bit 44.1kHz (just select the right export option). Audacity downsamples to 16-bit - you can even specift which type of dithering you want applied in the downsampling process (accesed via Edit>Preferences>Quality).kozikowski wrote:Audacity defaults to 32-bit floating for one of its sound file specifications. ....
If you have QuickTime Pro ($30-US), you may be able to just export the show to AIFF 44100 16 bit right there and I bet the pops go away. I'm not sure you can do that directly in Audacity, but that maybe possible, too.
Koz
These settings produce very good quality CDs for me.
WC
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