[CI] recording audio rounds

[Jim Slotek]

Limewire's what I used, but it's dead now. It was shut down by the courts and the RIAA was recently turned down in its request to seek a trillion dollars in damages from the service (yes, a trillion - a ba-zillion being a non-legal number I guess)

> From: patimac at fastmail.fm
> To: inquisition at cfaj.ca; dronach at rogers.com; excursion at sympatico.ca; ralphandsue at teksavvy.com; bobward90 at hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:34:45 -0400
> Subject: [CI] recording audio rounds
> 
> Thanks for the info everyone .
> 
> 
> I've used Audacity and I have a Mac so I'm glad that works. I'm pretty
> sure some free software exists to convert (if necessary) to MP3s to
> accommodate the players. I expected that would be the case.
> 
> I'm wondering about sources of music -- some of you used your own
> collections  - which limits music rounds to those on the team with a big
> collection and none among us has a big enough collection to sustain a
> variety of rounds.
> 
> Tony gave some tips for apps and sites -- Wiretap, Limewire (a file
> sharing app), Vuse, Fussion.
> 
> Feel free to comment or add. But thanks for the advice so far --
> something to build on.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:18 -0400, "Ed Piwowarczyk" <edp.alpha at rogers.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, Tim!
> > I stand corrected on using Audacity on a Mac. But remember, when it comes 
> > time to load audio clips onto MP3 players the league has, those clips
> > will 
> > have to be MP3 or WAV files, or whatever other format the players can 
> > handle. That information will be with the package instructions for the 
> > players, which I passed on to the Suspects and which I assume they will
> > be 
> > passing on to you.
> > Cheers, Ed
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Ed Piwowarczyk
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:28 AM
> > To: Toronto's co-operative quiz league
> > Subject: Re: [CI] question about hi-tech
> > 
> > Hi, Tim!
> > In doing our audio rounds, we ripped tracks from our own personal CDs
> > onto
> > our personal laptops or PCs and edited snippets using a free program
> > called
> > Audacity, downloadable from the Internet. Very easy to use. However,
> > Audacity will not work with Macs.
> > Note that the MP3 players the league has won't play Mac-formatted clips.
> > Clips will have to be MP3 or WAV files. Those were what worked and what
> > played when we were setting the questions.
> > Good luck with your question-setting.
> > Cheers, Ed (Five Guys Named Moe)
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: tim & pat
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:56 PM
> > To: inquisition at cfaj.ca
> > Subject: [CI] question about hi-tech
> > 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > we, the Mods, are setting Qs for the upcoming season.
> > 
> > Can any of you who have set questions recently and are more familiar
> > with this interweb highway thing advise on how to get downloadable music
> > files for the audio round? Did you all just copy from your personal
> > collection of CDs and downloaded tunes? Is there a reliable way of
> > getting snippets without paying the 99 cents?
> > 
> > Advice appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   patimac at fastmail.fm
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inquisition mailing list
> > Inquisition at cfaj.ca
> > http://cfaj.ca/mailman/listinfo/inquisition_cfaj.ca
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inquisition mailing list
> > Inquisition at cfaj.ca
> > http://cfaj.ca/mailman/listinfo/inquisition_cfaj.ca 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Inquisition mailing list
> > Inquisition at cfaj.ca
> > http://cfaj.ca/mailman/listinfo/inquisition_cfaj.ca
> > 
> 
>  
>   patimac at fastmail.fm
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Inquisition mailing list
> Inquisition at cfaj.ca
> http://cfaj.ca/mailman/listinfo/inquisition_cfaj.ca
 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cfaj.ca/pipermail/inquisition_cfaj.ca/attachments/20110331/c27172a0/attachment-0003.html>