VeeDubb Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 I have an mp3 of an old audio book. It was originaly released as a set of LP's and the only copy I have is a digital recording made from the LP's in mp3 format. As you can imagine the quality leaves something to be desired. What I am looking for is some sort of program to clean up the static and pops. If the old needle pops from the vinyl con't be removed, that's okay, but I'd like to clean it up as much as possible. Note*** I've never done this before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrake_alf Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 uummm... I have no idea either, but you might look at sweep. I read somewhere it is supposed to be a very good sound file editor. Maybe it can do what your looking for.. Good Luck.. http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 Audacity has a function that removes some of the noise. I haven't used it that much, so I don't know how effective it is, but it is fun to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 21, 2003 Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 (edited) I have an mp3 of an old audio book. It was originaly released as a set of LP's and the only copy I have is a digital recording made from the LP's in mp3 format. As you can imagine the quality leaves something to be desired. What I am looking for is some sort of program to clean up the static and pops. If the old needle pops from the vinyl con't be removed, that's okay, but I'd like to clean it up as much as possible. Note*** I've never done this before Audacity which was mentioned. I've used it to cleanup and split to individual songs, streaming media that I have captured with xms. Gramophile *might* work, I've used it to record from old vinyl and cassette tapes to ogg/mp3. I'm not sure if it has a cleanup mode for existing digital media, but it works great for recording from the original media. Or if you still have the original LPs, it is what you want to use and make new mp3 recording. Tim Edited November 21, 2003 by kuchwas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted November 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2003 No, I don't have accessto the original lp's. they are extremely rare and expensive now. It's a version of the Hobbit that was recorded in the 70's, but it's not that cfrappy BBC radio version. This one was read by actor Nicol Williamson. He did a different voice for eevery character and it is just fantastic. Before this, the last thing I had was a 4th generation tape copy, but it's getting REALY old. The mp3's are already better than my tapes, so if none of this works, it's not that big of a deal. I just figured it would be easier to clean up now. As for making a copy of the tapes and cleaning it as it's captured, no, they are REALLY bad, almost unusable now after a few thousand listens and 10 years in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 No, I don't have accessto the original lp's. they are extremely rare and expensive now. It's a version of the Hobbit that was recorded in the 70's, but it's not that cfrappy BBC radio version. This one was read by actor Nicol Williamson. He did a different voice for eevery character and it is just fantastic. would you be allowed to put this up for public download? ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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