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Is there any alternative meanwhile? It is silly when you have files in 16kHz.

I have a recorded mp3 in 44.1khz, and it plays fine on my home system, and it plays fine in Loudblog administration after uploading, but on the main page it chipmunks.  Why would it play fine in Loudblog admin but not on the front page?

My encoder defaults to 128 bitrate for the mp3 - will that affect anything?

Edit:  I figured out the problem (I think - it works now anyway!): My recording program was recording in "32-bit float", changing this to 16-bit fixed it!

Last edited by johndmann (Mar 12th 2006 17:11)

The reason it plays correctly in the admin page, but not on the front page is because your browser is caching the mp3 file. Empty your cache and reload the page and it should work again. This is the only reason you would be getting two different results.

pbarney,
You said >>>
For those of you using Audacity with the Lame plug-in:
The simplest way to have the frequency set properly for normal playback when encoding at a lower bit rate is to use 48kpbs in the preferences
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I believe this has to do with a bug (or feature) in Audacity -- if it detects stereo content of any kind it will ignore your preferences and write out a file at the frequency IT wants rather than what YOU said you want...

pbarney,
Yeah, I think that is what is happening. Audacity is overriding the user's frequency selection based on the bitrate. I have also ended up using 48k for most speech content. You seem to have found the best compromise.

I've been thinking that a new version of Audacity is about due but so far, nothing....

pbarney wrote:

Thanks for the update, Raymer. But I've found that Audacity will pay attention to the bitrate you specify, but it will choose the frequency on its own. The only low-quality (for a small file size) bitrate I've found that will produce one of the flash-acceptable frequencies is 48kpbs.

I have compiled a table (Excel spreadsheet) for both WavePad and Audacity, showing the frequency at which each makes an mp3 file in different circumstances. You can find it here. Both of them will reduce the frequency at lower bit rates, but they do so in different ways. WavePad has possibilities for recording at a flash-compliant frequency at 64kbps, which is useful for good quality speech files. I hope you find the comparisons useful.
Actually, there are other advantages to WavePad over Audacity as well. It generates ID3 tags which Loudblog can read and edit - Audacity doesn't. It has a facility which you can use to upload the audio file on which you are working direct to the upload folder of your Loudblog site. Audacity argues with my anti-virus software (ZoneAlarm) which makes it very slow to create an mp3 file. I generally turn the anti-virus off when using Audacity to avoid this. There is no similar problem with WavePad. WavePad is to my mind rather easier to use, and is certainly a bit quicker. The downside is that you have to pay for it, although a free trial version is available with most features switched on and (apparently) no built in time limit.