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3-Dec-14 22:57

My daughters are doing a little playette for a party we're attending at the weekend. As part of it, they have some music that they want played in the background.
I have the music but I want to be able to edit it so that the volume drops. Is there anything anyone can recommend, beyond me standing beside the 'puter and manually changing the machine's volume.

* i.e. free

den2k883-Dec-14 22:59

den2k88

3-Dec-14 22:59

Audacity

And if you have a Linux Box there is an exceptional command line tool: mp3gain. Used it quite a lot back in the days...

Nagy Vilmos3-Dec-14 23:00

3-Dec-14 23:00

Why the wink? Makes me suspicious

den2k883-Dec-14 23:01

den2k88

3-Dec-14 23:01

Sorry, it was a random-emoticon kind of moment, like "hey, a question for which I know the answer, yay!"

Nagy Vilmos4-Dec-14 3:29

4-Dec-14 3:29

Downloaded, installed and file created. tvm

Rage3-Dec-14 23:33

3-Dec-14 23:33

den2k88 wrote:
Audacity

Probably one of the best piece of free SW in the world.

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GuyThiebaut3-Dec-14 23:26

GuyThiebaut

3-Dec-14 23:26

I second Audacity Wink | ;)

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OriginalGriff3-Dec-14 23:26

OriginalGriff

3-Dec-14 23:26

I'd ~~second~~ third Audacity - it's not the most obvious UI in the world, but it does the job (with the help of Mrs Google).

[edit]Grumble, grumble, damn kids getting in first, grumble, grumble...[/edit]

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

den2k883-Dec-14 23:32

den2k88

3-Dec-14 23:32

OriginalGriff wrote:
Mrs Google

Google knows everything, so must be a she - and a married one. Wink | ;)

OriginalGriff3-Dec-14 23:34

OriginalGriff

3-Dec-14 23:34

I never used any of those words. :InnocentWhistleSmiley:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Re: Low Cost* MP3 Editor SQOTD

Worried Brown Eyes4-Dec-14 0:43

Worried Brown Eyes

4-Dec-14 0:43

Audacity from me too - I use it regularly for snipping bits for charity quizzes - excellent tool.

Regards, Stewart

V.4-Dec-14 2:08

4-Dec-14 2:08

Stupid Question Of The Day

What´s wrong with the volume button? I know this is tedious, but my guess is that you want to "normalize" the volume accross mp3´s? In that case you´re in for one hell of a job to get all songs fixed.

If it´s crossfading between songs you want try a DJ program like Virtual DJ[^] which I found fun to work with. Chances are the application can even normalize the volume for you...

Hope this helps.

V.

(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)

GenJerDan4-Dec-14 3:24

GenJerDan

4-Dec-14 3:24

You mean lower the volume for speaking parts?

If so, not necessaily a good idea to pre-duck it. You really can't anticipate when it would be needed...pauses for applause, missed cues, temporary actor blanking will totally mess things up.

(I was the "sound engineer" on too many plays to trust actors.)

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Nagy Vilmos4-Dec-14 3:28

4-Dec-14 3:28

It /shouldn't/ be a problem. There's a silly intro mime of getting ready with the music full on, then it fades down and that's the prompt to start actificating.

GenJerDan4-Dec-14 3:33

GenJerDan

4-Dec-14 3:33

Well, I'm sure you'll have a dress rehearsal, too, so....ok. Yeah, Audacity would be the simplest solution.

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We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

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PIEBALDconsult4-Dec-14 3:58

PIEBALDconsult

4-Dec-14 3:58

+1 for Audacity, I use it for ripping vinyl, cassettes, etc.

But, if I recall correctly, you have to get the MP3 DLL separately.

Wastedtalent4-Dec-14 5:14

Wastedtalent

4-Dec-14 5:14

Is this not what remote controls are for Sniff | :^)

New TV

Rage3-Dec-14 22:57

3-Dec-14 22:57

So after browsing review sites, and going into shops in the last couple of months (!), I finally settle for a ue55h6400 by Samsung[^] for €770.

They are currently making a lot of fuss about UltraHD (aka "4K"), but this is waaaaay too early IMO, as the sources are mostly lacking (FullHD is hardly a standard on French TV, so they haven't started to talk about UHD yet) and the downsizing algorithm terrible (who knew this would be so complicated to SW duplicate pixels?) so there is absolutely no point in investing in that technology for the moment.

The OLED technology looks great, but $3000 for a TV is definitely not worth it (especially with kids playing soccer in the living-room Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

).

The only drawback of the Samsung above is the edge LED lighting instead of direct LED, but then, it is not as if I would spend a lot of time in front of the TV. For the record, my old TV was a 40" CRC Thomson from ... 2003 Big Grin | :-D

and it is still working flawlessly. No fix required in 10years+, not sure the new one will hold that long...

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P0mpeyBoy3-Dec-14 23:15

P0mpeyBoy

3-Dec-14 23:15

Rage wrote:
kids playing soccer in the living-room

You have American kids? Your food bill must be unbelievable still at least your TV will get used a lot.

Rage3-Dec-14 23:30

3-Dec-14 23:30

Did not get the joke. Or was it no joke ?

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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Tom Deketelaere3-Dec-14 23:18

Tom Deketelaere

3-Dec-14 23:18

I have 3 samsung's, one is even located in the bathroom (something the tv wasn't made for), 1 I use all the time (mostly as a pc screen but...) and 1 I almost never use.
All are between 6 (= the one I use all the time) and 4 years old and none have failed me yet (granted the one in the bathroom does seem to not like it, some weird nose comming from it when I turn it on but it still works so...)

So you might get that 10years out off it aswell Smile | :)

I'v always been happy with samsung tv's / screens (but only for that tho Smile | :)

)

Tom

Rage3-Dec-14 23:31

3-Dec-14 23:31

Tom Deketelaere wrote:
in the bathroom

May I ask "what for ?" without being too intrusive ?

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Tom Deketelaere3-Dec-14 23:39

Tom Deketelaere

3-Dec-14 23:39

To watch of course Smile | :)

Kidding aside.
I have a lower back injury (and neck injury) so I bought a bath with jets.
But I get bored extremely fast (really fast, 1 min of not doing anything and I'm bored out of my mind) so when I take a bath I watch a movie and that way I can stand sitting there for an hour or more (depending on the length of the movie), otherwise the maximum I would last is about 5 min and that doesn't do me any good and is just a waste of water and energy to heat the water.

And before anyone asks, yes it helps with the back pains (not the neck tho but...).

Tom