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Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2005 05:04:42 -0000

trying this increased sampling method will probably cause a decrease in quality more than a real time conversion. the problem is a too technically advanced for this forum, but it has to do with the behavior of signals after sampling and how sampling affects the spectrum. if you speed up the playback, you're already loosing quality since it's not an analog file to begin with. speeding up playback is much different in the digital world than it is with a tape or record player. you skip bytes rather than increase the speed in which the bytes are read. also, by increasing the sampling rate, you're more likely to increase the amount of noise in the audio track. it's a great theory, but unfortunately would only work if the source was pure analog.

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Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2005 12:12:19 -0000

This is an intriguing possibility. I think I have the basic recipe for how to do this, can someone look this recipe over and make corrections please? Since I don't currently have one of the sound cards that support a 192khz sampling rate I just assume my current option of 48khz max would increase to 192 max if one were installed. Correct?

I'm going to use the examples of Windows Media Player as the player and TotalRecorder as the capture program because that's what I have but this should work with other programs that have similar capabilities. Anyway as I see it the recipe would be:

1. Open WMP and Rack up all the songs you want to play as a playlist in WMP (drag them all to the playlist window from their folder).
2. Go to the WMP View menu, point to Enhancements, and then click Play Speed Settings, then in the Enhancements pane, move the Play Speed slider to right to 4.0
3. Open Total Recorder and go to "recording source and parameters" and set the recording rate to the type of file you want WMA, MP3 whatever and the kbps to what you normally would (say 128 or 192) and THEN make sure the khz is set to 4 times the usual rate you would have used (if normally 48, set to 192).
4. Set the recording speed in Total Recorder to a rate of 4 times normal speed.
5. Set the recording program to record
6. Play the playlist in WMP

Is this right? I know I left out some of the usual setup steps but I'm trying to focus on the specific steps necessary to increase the speed.

Thanks.

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Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:16:34 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>[quote]
However, most sound cards cannot sample above 48kHz, and good quality digital files are usually 44.1kHz or so. So unless you have a sound card that can sample at least 88kHz, you are SOL.

Good idea though.</ul>For $100 bucks you can get an Emu 121m or one of the Creative Labs cards that support 192khz sampling rate.

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Ya Boy — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:13:29 -0000

Should of read the last posts and I've would've known not to try the conversion!!! Anyway, I cant unistall or play mmjb. The error I get when trying to start is "The prodecure entry point aac_codec_register could not be located in the dynamic link library xaudio.dll" and when trying to unistall I get uninst.isu is not valid or data is corrupt. I've tried re-installing and uninstalling, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?

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Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:35:56 -0000

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just a thought.....if i played a song 4x faster than normal and increased my sampling rate 4x, would i still lose audio quality?
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You would not lost quality. However, most sound cards cannot sample above 48kHz, and good quality digital files are usually 44.1kHz or so. So unless you have a sound card that can sample at least 88kHz, you are SOL.

Good idea though.

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naps — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:58:18 -0000

it seems like the only way to do it now is through the sound card. this is too time consuming.

just a thought.....if i played a song 4x faster than normal and increased my sampling rate 4x, would i still lose audio quality?

any comments?

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naps — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:42:18 -0000

now that mmjb is out of the question.....any new tricks?

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mor_f — Thu, 12 May 2005 07:09:18 -0000

i think what bothers me the most about this whole DRM thing is....

the RIAA is taking away our ownership of the music even if it is BOUGHT
the last time i checked i thought once I bought something, i paid all of the fees necessary to do whatever the hell I wanted with the material. give me a user code on all of my devices that gets burned into the firmware...whatever it takes. BUT when i purchase a song, I want to be able to put it on all of my media players. i do not like the idea of having to logon to the internet to regain permission to play a damn song.

it sucks... the musicians make the music, sell the music to the music industry, in return make a dime for every dollar earned by the industry

hell, the musicians ought to sell their own music online directly to the consumer and squeeze the fat-cats out of the deal entirely.

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Lance — Thu, 12 May 2005 04:57:35 -0000

sucks, this method no longer works. napster fixed this problem and now whenever you try to convert them with this method it just locks up and doesn't do anything :(

hopefully there is another way 8)

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Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 01:52:40 -0000

i don't think that it's a change in the program itself. i believe that it's an MS update to the registry or operating system files. I unplugged my computer from the net, uninstalled the software and made sure to delete everything manually that wasn't removed. i reinstalled the software following the directiongs. Still locks up....

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Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 01:10:21 -0000

www.muvaudio.com

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Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 00:45:43 -0000

Tunebite is still an Analog Solution and the last time I tried it you couldn't save in WMA format so you had to save it in MP3 format and then convert it again - losing even more quality.

There's been comments from other people about how Tunebite handles the beginning and ending of files. Apparently there's either some overlap of tracks and incorrect truncation at the end of tracks.

A much better (albeit still analog) solution is Total Recorder (Professional Version). The Pro verse retains all the tagging from the original WMA or MP3 file in most players (comes with a special visualization plug-in for Windows Media Player that you must use to capture the tag info if using that player). Total Recorder records to a variety of formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and a few others I've never heard of.

It allows you to set a user defined amount of time from the previous file when recording several tracks in a row and automatically pend that snippet to the current file, which eliminates the problem Tunebites has with beginning of files. And it has a sound editor that allows you to cut any overlap off at the end of tracks. Which solves the end of file recognition problem some people report they had with Tunebite.

If you take 5 to 10 minutes to check out the options and skim the help files you will get good results everytime. But it is still a slow process and if you make sure the ends of tracks stop where they should after doing a batch of recording it will take you a half minute or so per track.

And it may not work with all sound cards (there's a trial so you can check it out) but neither does Tunebite.

Till the next digital solution comes along Total Recorder is the best alternative I've seen.

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guest — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:51:12 -0000

just use tune bite, download all the freaking music, start tunebite to convert all in real time go to work, come back and they will all be converted, of course those that dont have jobs, go play basketball,go to the mall or do something, just have patience

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holla — Tue, 10 May 2005 21:26:28 -0000

i did what was told of me and it still wont convert it just sit there no bar bee up on the file conversion progess screen

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Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2005 13:37:40 -0000

ITS NOT WORKING, I FOLLOWED THE STEPS LIKE 8 TIMES, DELETING AND INSTALLING OVER AND OVER. ANYBODY HAVE ANYMORE IDEAS. IT JUST FREEZES. IVE TRYED EVERY TRICK HERE AND NOTHING WORKS. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE

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zeric — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:12:46 -0000

About a month ago I burned nearly 2000 drm protected songs onto cd as data with no problem. They all still play since ive started paying for napster, since they are bunred, the drm shouldnt be able to be converted, correct? Ive tried converting them with the latest method but no such luck...Should I disconnect from the net? Thanks a lot

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Anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:08:04 -0000

Howdy chefs!

VERY frustrated like us all. I have bought enough hard disc music to send somebody to retirement. I am in love with this N#$st&r trial thing and did the Virtuoso trick a couple months ago.

Looking through, the consensus seems to be looking for free conversion techniques. Answer me this....is there a pay service that can strip the DRM or do the conversion of the N#$st&r files that I acquired during the trial period? At this point, I'll pay, fuck it. The alternative is to go back to Kazaa..(sigh)......

Anybody?

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Anonymous — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:01:14 -0000

It ain't working unless you downloaded the songs last week and haven't been online since. The files have all been updated. Time for the next trick.

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guest — Mon, 09 May 2005 15:12:13 -0000

I did all the steps, but the machine locks up when I try and convert them. I am running Windows XP Pro with service pack 2. I used to have musicmatch 10, but deleted it when I insatlled this. I worked for about 2000 files, now it will nort work anymore. Did they find a patch to make it quit working? Please help I still have about 150 files left to convert.

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gman — Mon, 09 May 2005 10:29:14 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>monkeysHAHAHA wrote:</h6>It still works for me...</ul>

What method are u using?

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Eddie — Mon, 09 May 2005 08:17:41 -0000

original 6.0 still workin for me, slow but works.

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monkeysHAHAHA — Mon, 09 May 2005 06:58:27 -0000

It still works for me...

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BDW725 — Mon, 09 May 2005 02:47:38 -0000

Can someone tell me if this trick is still working. I had tried this and it worked great for a day or two. Now however it seems to just hang when I try and convert a song. Is anyone else having this problem too? Or does anyone know of a way I can solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

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Saxy Nate — Sun, 08 May 2005 21:20:13 -0000

I've been converting over the last few days, today I'm still going and now my musicmatch just keeps freezing up. Can't convert anymore...

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Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2005 13:21:09 -0000

plug me :lol: