1880  mp3 stuff (was Cortinas)

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:29:05 +0200
From: andy Ungureanu <andy.ungureanu@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject: Re: mp3 stuff (was Cortinas)

Kohlhaas, Bernhard schrieb:

>
> No doubt about that. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, is that the sound level
> of most classic tango recording is much softer than modern music.
> With most of the cortinas I used, I actually had to use a sound editor to
> shrink the music amplitude by about 50%. If you don't, even the softest
> cortina might be a rude awakening after a tanda of Fresedo or Caló.

for directly editing mp3 try mp3DirectCut :
https://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/

For normalization try this one:
https://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
(does not work with every player)

robin wrote:

> i am the least techy dj you will ever meet! and maybe
>> one of ther poorest. $600 is a lot of money for me!

you may find a used laptop (about 3 years old) running WinME under 600$.
Minimum 800 Mhz, USB port, CD Drive with Digital Audio Extraction if
you want to produce the mp3 on the laptop. Hard disk as large as
possible, but if you know the songs you really need, you could restrict
them to 1000 (4-6 GB).
You also need an external soundcard (Soundblaster mp3+ for 60$),
software for djing (www.mp3tunes.nl for 15$),
software for extracting mp3, and a lot, lot of time!

Andy

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:35:21 +0200
From: "Kohlhaas, Bernhard" <bernhard.kohlhaas@SAP.COM>
Subject: Re: mp3 stuff (was Cortinas)

> From: andy Ungureanu [mailto:andy.ungureanu@t-online.de]
>
> > for directly editing mp3 try mp3DirectCut :
> https://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
>
> For normalization try this one:
> https://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
> (does not work with every player)

Thanks for the info, especially the normalization program looks interesting.

I use Audacity (Freeware at https://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ).
Generally I can only advise AGAINST using mp3 files as a base for sound editing.
As said elsewhere, it is a lossy format, so every time you edit the file and save it
again you get more "noise". So if you need to edit it, take a wav-file as a base,
do all editing and then encode the result as mp3 file. This way you will only
have one step of mp3-encoding.

For normalization I actually use a plugin for Winamp 2, which adjusts the volume
"on the fly". It can be found at https://tomstdenis.home.dhs.org/ under "Winamp DSP Plugins".
But it's of course only of use with Winamp 2.

> You also need an external soundcard (Soundblaster mp3+ for 60$),
> software for djing (www.mp3tunes.nl for 15$),

I use Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 in parallel (https://classic.winamp.com/ ) and they're free.

> [...]
> and a lot, lot of time!

Definitely!

Bernhard

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:18:07 EDT
From: Mallpasso@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: mp3 stuff (was Cortinas)

You might want to check out this webpage. They sell rebuilt laptops for very
reasonable prices:

https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=17">https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.a=
sp?CatId=17</A>

El Bandito de Tango



In a message dated 10/8/03 11:29:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
andy.ungureanu@T-ONLINE.DE writes:

> Subj: Re: [TANGO-L] mp3 stuff (was Cortinas)
> Date: 10/8/03 11:29:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time
> From: <A HREF="mailto:andy.ungureanu@T-ONLINE.DE">andy.ungureanu@T-ONLINE.DE</A>
> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:andy.ungureanu@t-online.de">andy.ungureanu@t-online.de</A>
> To: <A HREF="mailto:TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU">TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU</A>
> Sent from the Internet
>
>
>
> Kohlhaas, Bernhard schrieb:
> >
> >No doubt about that. One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet, is that the
> sound level
> >of most classic tango recording is much softer than modern music.
> >With most of the cortinas I used, I actually had to use a sound editor to
> >shrink the music amplitude by about 50%. If you don't, even the softest
> >cortina might be a rude awakening after a tanda of Fresedo or Caló.
>
> for directly editing mp3 try mp3DirectCut :
> https://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
>
> For normalization try this one:
> https://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
> (does not work with every player)
>
> robin wrote:
>
> >i am the least techy dj you will ever meet! and maybe
> >>one of ther poorest. $600 is a lot of money for me!
>
> you may find a used laptop (about 3 years old) running WinME under 600$.
> Minimum 800 Mhz, USB port, CD Drive with Digital Audio Extraction if
> you want to produce the mp3 on the laptop. Hard disk as large as
> possible, but if you know the songs you really need, you could restrict
> them to 1000 (4-6 GB).
> You also need an external soundcard (Soundblaster mp3+ for 60$),
> software for djing (www.mp3tunes.nl for 15$),
> software for extracting mp3, and a lot, lot of time!
>
> Andy
>