On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 15:39 -0800, AndrewRT wrote:
Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a go
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> Try Audacity for the conversion.
>
> Load up MP3, if needed do noise removal, compress to peaks, export as
> OGG and fill in the metadata.
Noise removal is the slightly confusing one. What you want to do is
select a second or two of quiet/background noise in the recording; pick
the noise removal option from the menu; click the "sample" button to
build a noise profile; then pick from menu again and apply the noise
profile to the full recording.
> Never had a file done that way fail to upload.
Plus Audacity is Free
> software.
The folks that do Wikivoices (featuring myself, Mike Peel, Skenmy, and
Jimmy Wales on Wikinews this evening 8pm) have a lot of experience
cleaning up and editing recordings. Once you've done a couple of clean
and uploads they can probably offer some really good advanced tips.
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
Wikinewsie.org