Day 2 - A Bit Of Background (Sound Samples)
January 25, 2008 – 3:36 pmI know some of you may be interested in how I created all the soundclips to go with each listing, so here is how I did it. Nothing magic or particularly easy I’m afraid … and overall it was very timeconsuming!!
I’ve been ripping all my vinyl for years now. I think my first rips were done back in 2001 on an old Citronic deck fed through some cheapo Amp and into a pretty rubbish soundcard. These days I try an do a proper job using my 1210’s combined with a quality amp/soundcard. Anyway, I’ve always used Adobe Audition for the ripping process and it does a blinding job. Everything is ripped at @192 with the occasional one @320.
Every record I have up for sale I have ripped in the past so I have the original mp3’s. These are way to big to make available for download as sound samples (averaging I suppose around 7Mb a track). Six months of looking drew a blank and then totally by chance I stumbled across GoldWave and it did exactly what I needed it do. It has a built in batch processor/converter so I could just point the program to all my mp3’s and tell it to trim and re-encode at a lower bit-rate (64kbps Mono) which created much smaller files at only 712Kb. Result. It was still time consuming, but much quicker than doing it by hand one at a time.
Job done. I created 1080 sound clips for these auctions and my only concern now is that my monthly server bandwidth allocation will not be enough. Fingers crossed!!