[geeks] Tape hiss

[Frank Van Damme]

On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:53, Rob Fielding wrote:
> I have been posed a problem to show off my SGI's to my friends. They
> have a bunch of old tapes they want to convert to mp3, however we'd be
> interested 'cleaning up' the sound a little. I'm currently searching the
> web and reading about the denoising of audio using lifted interpolated
> wavelets ( a final project from Winter 1996 term at Dartmouth College)
> but I'd thought I'd ask here in the mean time if anyone had any
> suggestions.
>
> It doesn't have to IRIX specific. Linux would work for me to - really
> just trying to avoid crapy hacked copies of soundforge on windblows.

Don't encode to mp3! Encode to ogg vorbis. Mp3 is not an open standard (it's
patented). Ogg has wide support on various platforms.

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