"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
k...
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incidentally, how did you record the playing stream into Cool Edit? Did
you take a lead from the sound card output and back into the line input of
your PC or did you use some feature of CE that I didn't know about similar
to Total Recorder? From memory CEP ACTUALLY records in PCM and saves to
MP3 (or whatever you chose) when you exit.

When Cool Edit Pro/Audition works with MP3s, they first decode them into
PCM files in the temp folder then when you've finished working, they
re-encode them to MP3.


Hello. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

To record, I just let the radio programme play in Real Player and opened a
new file in CoolEdit and pressed record. When it came to the end of the
show, I stopped it and pressed 'save as', choosing mp3 and it saved.

This is probably not what you are supposed to do, but I have done it before
and since to record a radio show and it worked, but for some reason, the
files I promised to someone else have been messed up. It works perfectly for
unimportant stuff.

The radio show was almost two hours long, so I'm afraid it's a very large
file (over 1GB). I recorded the show for three days running, but only
checked the files when I came to transfer it to CD for her. I presumed that
there would be no problem, as there never has been before.

What is driving me mad is I KNOW the digital information to recreate the
sounds I heard are in my huge big files, but I can't get it out.

I have not changed the original files I saved to in any way, as any of my
attempts to do something have been done by working on a copy of the original
files.

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Trish

Dublin


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Trish wrote:
"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
k...
snip

incidentally, how did you record the playing stream into Cool Edit? Did
you take a lead from the sound card output and back into the
line input of your PC or did you use some feature of CE that I
didn't know about similar to Total Recorder? From memory CEP
ACTUALLY records in PCM and saves to MP3 (or whatever you chose)
when you exit. When Cool Edit Pro/Audition works with MP3s, they first
decode them
into PCM files in the temp folder then when you've finished working,
they re-encode them to MP3.


Hello. Thank you for taking the time to reply.

To record, I just let the radio programme play in Real Player and
opened a new file in CoolEdit and pressed record. When it came to the
end of the show, I stopped it and pressed 'save as', choosing mp3 and
it saved.
This is probably not what you are supposed to do, but I have done it
before and since to record a radio show and it worked, but for some
reason, the files I promised to someone else have been messed up. It
works perfectly for unimportant stuff.

The radio show was almost two hours long, so I'm afraid it's a very
large file (over 1GB). I recorded the show for three days running,
but only checked the files when I came to transfer it to CD for her.
I presumed that there would be no problem, as there never has been
before.
What is driving me mad is I KNOW the digital information to recreate
the sounds I heard are in my huge big files, but I can't get it out.

I have not changed the original files I saved to in any way, as any
of my attempts to do something have been done by working on a copy of
the original files.

--
Trish

Dublin

Hmm,

I'm surprised that CoolEdit allowed you to make successful recordings in the
past - perhaps it uses the Windows sound manager to route audio to it's
inputs and you had/have the record part of your soundcard set to look at the
stereo mix - that'd work.

This might not help but could you higlight the first 20 seconds of your
file, copy it, create a new file, past the data in and save as Raw PCM -
then you might have something email-able.

Problem is, finding a way to play that 30 seconds might not solve your 2
hours problem but it'd be a start.

Rolo

"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
. uk...
snip

This might not help but could you higlight the first 20 seconds of your
file, copy it, create a new file, past the data in and save as Raw PCM -
then you might have something email-able.

Problem is, finding a way to play that 30 seconds might not solve your 2
hours problem but it'd be a start.


Thanks.
I've sent you that file...imaginatively titled first30secs.

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Trish

Dublin


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Trish wrote:
"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
. uk...
snip

This might not help but could you higlight the first 20 seconds of
your file, copy it, create a new file, past the data in and save as
Raw PCM - then you might have something email-able.

Problem is, finding a way to play that 30 seconds might not solve
your 2 hours problem but it'd be a start.


Thanks.
I've sent you that file...imaginatively titled first30secs.

--
Trish

Dublin

Problem sorted and file on it's way back to you.

For the rest of the group - the file was named with an mp3 extension but was
actually Linear PCM 44.1KHz, 16bit and the 16bit Motorola PCM setting
worked - all others returned white noise like the OP experienced.

Adobe Audition struggled until I noticed that CEP had defaulted to the
Motorola setting whereas Audition had defaulted to the Intel one which
DIDN'T work.

Rolo

"Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
.uk...
snip
Problem sorted and file on it's way back to you.

For the rest of the group - the file was named with an mp3 extension but
was actually Linear PCM 44.1KHz, 16bit and the 16bit Motorola PCM setting
worked - all others returned white noise like the OP experienced.

Adobe Audition struggled until I noticed that CEP had defaulted to the
Motorola setting whereas Audition had defaulted to the Intel one which
DIDN'T work.


Much public thanks to Rolo for this.

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Trish

Dublin


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"Trish" wrote in message
.. .
:
: "Rolo Tomassi" wrote in message
: .uk...
: snip
: Problem sorted and file on it's way back to you.
:
: For the rest of the group - the file was named with an
mp3 extension but
: was actually Linear PCM 44.1KHz, 16bit and the 16bit
Motorola PCM setting
: worked - all others returned white noise like the OP
experienced.
:
: Adobe Audition struggled until I noticed that CEP had
defaulted to the
: Motorola setting whereas Audition had defaulted to the
Intel one which
: DIDN'T work.
:
:
: Much public thanks to Rolo for this.
:
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: Trish
:
: Dublin
:
BTW I actually said this was probably the problem in my
first post to you ;-) And yes I have done similar things
myself.

Regards TT