Tag Archives: audio
Lossless Editing
This feature of Rogue Amoeba’s Fission makes me happy: Fission, however, losslessly edits audio files in its native formats (AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, and AIFF). When editing a file in these formats with Fission, the resultant file will have no … Continue reading
Soundcloud’s “Share Your Sound” in the Mac App
It literally records your audio inputs from your mac. How about a being able to upload an audio file?
USB Speakers Are A Bad Idea
The speakers on my iMac at work died a weird death,1 so rather than put in a request for a repair I decided to get cheap speakers that would probably sound better than internal speakers anyway. Since they were only … Continue reading
Mastering for iTunes
Digital Music News interviewed Vlado Meller, the mastering engineer on the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, which has three masters: one for CD, one for vinyl, and one for iTunes. Digital Music News: What specific considerations play into the … Continue reading
“It’s Hardly A Scam.”
Antiquiet interviews mixing engineer Sean Beavan. Beavan explains how 24-bit audio could be beneficial. In the intro: 24-bit audio, as even Jimmy Iovine seems to see it, could represent a small revolt against the “Loudness War,” and a refocus on … Continue reading
Rdio blocked at work?
Get one of these things: Plug one end into your iPhone and the other into the back of your Mac. No, you won’t get sound yet. You need one more thing: Rogue Amoeba’s free LineIn software. It lets you pass … Continue reading
Ghost Audio Codec
Xiph details what they hope will be their codec to supersede Vorbis. Ghost intends to improve and expand upon the Vorbis feature set in the following ways: Near-headerless operation Elimination of pre-echo Inherently bit-exact decode Lossless encoding ability Reduced/bounded resource … Continue reading
20 Seconds: Twitter For Audio
To try to get the creative juices flowing I’ve started a new Tumblr blog. I call it 20 Seconds. The goal is this: every day post at least 20 seconds of audio. It doesn’t have to be great. It just … Continue reading