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Wag

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Hah! The ending to this series totally pissed me off! But it was funny as hell.

One of the few radio shows I'd actually buy on CD.

Did Douglas Adams write the radioplay for this or did someone else adapt it? The first book was for radio first.
 
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Originally posted by: Mark R
OK guys. The wavefinder is being dusted off, so hopefully I'll have pure off-air MP2 files for you all.

Bit rate will probably 128 kbps. But whatever, it's got to be better than the 32kbps realaudio that they put on the website.
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I'm hooking up my Wavefinder (providing it wants to make a connection to the PC :roll: ) and I'll also be recording from Sky Digital, as it's much higher bit-rate coming through Sky :)


Garry
 
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Originally posted by: Wag
Hah! The ending to this series totally pissed me off! But it was funny as hell.

One of the few radio shows I'd actually buy on CD.

Did Douglas Adams write the radioplay for this or did someone else adapt it? The first book was for radio first.
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Douglas Adams wrote it as a radio play first, doing 6 episodes. At Christmas there was a seventh episode, which in later plays/releases was put in with the first series.

He then wrote another 5 episodes which made up a second series on the Radio.

Two books were then written based on these radio plays.

A TV series was then made from the first 6 radio episodes.

Then DA wrote the last three books over the next few years.

Now they are creating two radio series from the last three books.
 
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10 minutes!

PC is set up ready to record, i'll be converting to MP3 and upload as soon as it's finished :)


I would stream live, but my 256kbps upstream is crap :(


Garry
 
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Originally posted by: Confused
10 minutes!

PC is set up ready to record, i'll be converting to MP3 and upload as soon as it's finished :)


I would stream live, but my 256kbps upstream is crap :(


Garry
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Update?
 
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Mark R

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Well, guess what - my wavefinder crashed, again and didn't make it through the recording.
 
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Wag

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Confused, thank you very much! You'll hopefully be hosting the next 5 parts?

How do you have access to such high-bitrate sound? Is this an analog capture?

 
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Yeah, I will be recording/hosting the rest of them.

I'm getting it through my Sky Digital dish/box, and recording it via Line In on my SB Audigy as wav then compressing to MP3.

I think the Sky Digital is pumping it out at pretty high rates, quite possibly a lot higher than 256k ;)


Garry
 
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Wag

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I'm getting it through my Sky Digital dish/box, and recording it via Line In on my SB Audigy as wav then compressing to MP3.

I think the Sky Digital is pumping it out at pretty high rates, quite possibly a lot higher than 256k
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Can you do a direct digital capture? Making an analog capture of a lossy digital broadcast and then compressing it again defeats the purpose a bit.

If it's just digital audio they're probably using 128k like most of the American cable companies do. 128k seems to be the standard.
 
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Mark R

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Well, I've finally got my wavefinder working - replaced the stock PSU with a better one, and used a 'crack' on the drivers to improve stability and now it seems to work. Anyway, incase anyone doesn't know the Psion wavefinder is a USB digital radio receiver, and yes it can do direct digital off-air capture - you can also stream the audio on demand via HTTP, although I doubt that my DSL would cope with the ATOT effect.

Radio 4 is broadcast as 128 kbps MPEG (mp2). While winamp will play such files as is, not a lot else will.

I've been experimenting with LAME, and set to the highest-but-one quality VBR mode I get approx 128 kbps MP3 which is not audibly different to the original MP2. Presumably, this works because the lossy stages are very similar for the 2 algrorithms, so the files recompress into MP3 very easily.
 
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