Help with Audio conversion
grahamwegner
I don't post often and rarely ask on technical matters but the
collective wisdom of this network might be able to help me out. I have
a Skype recording downloaded from Podomatic from another teacher in
Canada recorded on a Mac so the audio file is in .mov format and I'm
not sure how to convert it to a handier mp3 format,
Any advice really appreciated,
Graham Wegner
http://gwegner.edublogs.org
Leigh Blackall
- get audacity
- set audacity to record from speakers (or similar option - is a little drop down menu based on the sound card you have)
- Hit record in audacity...
- Play the mov in the default player
- Audacity will pick up the signal
- Export to mp3 afterwards (will need to download LAME MP3 encoder at the same time you get audcaity
Michael Coghlan
Another option is to use Super C - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
I just tried it and it will do a fine job of converting your .mov file > mp3. In fact it seems to convert just about anything to just about anything!
- Michael
peter allen
anyway how come leigh the champion of all things open source didnt
suggest that you REALY want to convert it to Ogg vorbis the codec
that is open source and royalty free?
Mp3 is free to use for a player but if you create an Mp3 your
supposed to pay sombody - thats why audacity doesnt come standard
with the ability to create mp3s.
Leigh Blackall
grahamwegner
that the file is available as an .ogg will baffle 98% of them but an
mp3 they can all understand. Thanks for all of the tips - your first
piece of advice worked a treat, Leigh. Cheers,
Graham.
On Jul 13, 7:51 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <leighblack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> good point Peter :) yeah G!? how come you're not creating Ogg? :)
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> On 7/13/07, peter allen <pgp...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > or just learn to love quicktime - I know I do :)
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> > anyway how come leigh the champion of all things open source didnt
> > suggest that you REALY want to convert it to Ogg vorbis the codec
> > that is open source and royalty free?
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> > Mp3 is free to use for a player but if you create an Mp3 your
> > supposed to pay sombody - thats why audacity doesnt come standard
> > with the ability to create mp3s.
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> > On 7/12/07, Michael Coghlan <micha...@chariot.net.au> wrote:
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> > > Hi Graham,
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> > > Another option is to use Super C -
> > >http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
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> > > I just tried it and it will do a fine job of converting your .mov file
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> > > mp3. In fact it seems to convert just about anything to just about
> > anything!
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> > > - Michael
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> > > At 06:33 PM 7/12/2007, you wrote:
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> > > Hi Fellow TALOnians,
> > > I don't post often and rarely ask on technical matters but the
> > > collective wisdom of this network might be able to help me out. I have
> > > a Skype recording downloaded from Podomatic from another teacher in
> > > Canada recorded on a Mac so the audio file is in .mov format and I'm
> > > not sure how to convert it to a handier mp3 format,
> > > Any advice really appreciated,
> > > Graham Wegner
> > > http://gwegner.edublogs.org
>
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> skype - leigh_blackallhttp://learnonline.wordpress.com
alexanderhayes
I like Leigh's suggestion and Michael's and Pete's. As for the purist
reference then i refer to the an online joke I saw the other day...
Q. What does a GNU utter ?
A. .ogg
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craig bottomley
there are a bumch of tools you can use to do the sort of conversions you need. unfortumately i haven't come across too many foss ones. audacity might do it for you but i'm not sure of its support for .mov files. the best paid alternative (imho) would be the imtoo suite of programs which has a mov to mp3 converter. http://www.imtoo.com
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craig bottomley
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Patrick Davis
peter allen
export the audio stream of video to MP3.
well on the mac version anyway. but I bet the PC version would be the same.