Chris Moyles Radio Archive (Discussion & Request Thread)

[bmstinton93]

Ah okay that's fine then. I'm used to audacity now anyway.

[Jay's E (not neilt0)]

If you're editing MP3s, try mp3directcut -- it does lossless editing. With Audacity and virtually every other sound editor, if you edit an MP3 and re-save it as an MP3, it recodes the MP3, losing quality. mp3directcut lets you edit and leave the audio as-is.

A recode of an encode is a bad idea.

This was an edit I did with mp3directcut: http://www.mediafire.com/?1lov7j1ut5abzbz it even has fades -- only the fade parts get recoded, everything else was left alone as per the original file. Clever stuff.

[ianpwilliams]

Yeah, I convert Jamie's ra files to wav, then edit them, then save as mp3. Takes a massive amount of HD space while they are wav's though.

Might give that mp3directcut a look as well though.

[ianpwilliams]

Wednesday 24th January 2007
Thursday 25th January 2007

[jamiec21]

If you're editing MP3s, try mp3directcut -- it does lossless editing. With Audacity and virtually every other sound editor, if you edit an MP3 and re-save it as an MP3, it recodes the MP3, losing quality. mp3directcut lets you edit and leave the audio as-is.

A recode of an encode is a bad idea.

Indeed. Most of my ra files up until September 2007 are only 32k in the first place - you really wouldn't want to be, for example, converting a 32k ra file to a 128k mp3 then re-encoding to another 128k mp3. Would sound truly dreadful, all those compression artefacts are very hard to listen to, especially on headphones.

Frrom September 2007, the ra streams were then encoded at 64k, this is the case for the majority of the files I have until around April 2010, when I began recording the direct Freeview radio stream which are 192k mp2 - they can also be edited losslessly with mp3directcut. I have been using that program for a number of years now, can thoroughly recommend it for editing, only a small program and is very easy to use. My personal preference is to convert ra to wav, edit the wav, then save as mp3, but I guess converting ra to mp3 directly and editing the mp3 and saving with without re-encoding is pretty much the same.

[bmstinton93]

I've downloaded mp3DirectCut. Its a lot more complicated than Audacity. May need some tips.

[Jay's E (not neilt0)]

I've downloaded mp3DirectCut. Its a lot more complicated than Audacity. May need some tips.

It has a short, but steep learning curve. Once you work out how to highlight stuff (left and right mouse buttons), you can edit stuff really quickly. Play around with some dummy files and read the help/docs.

[ianpwilliams]

Friday 26th January 2007
Monday 29th January 2007

[ianpwilliams]

Tuesday 30th January 2007
Wednesday 31st January 2007

That's January done. One down, eleven to go.

[Nicola_Red]

Ian, when you get to the show with the first Golden Hour, can you make a note please? Just so I know when to stop checking Friday shows for the Tedious. Thankyou

[ianpwilliams]

I'll make a note to remind myself when it comes up. I wonder if anyone might know what show it was?

[Nicola_Red]

I'm sure it's been mentioned somewhere on the forum before, but I can't find it from a search. I'm pretty sure it was in the summer of 2007 but that's as much as I remember.

[jamiec21]

From a quick listen, 21st September 2007 was the first one.

[Nicola_Red]

Cheers Jamie. So...many...tedious...links!

[ianpwilliams]

Thursday 1st February 2007
Friday 2nd February 2007

So many shows!

[bmstinton93]

I'm back at uni. Jamie and Ian, I've received both your DVD's so thank you. As soon as my hard drive comes which should be sometime this week then I can begin to get back into the flow of things.

[slaphead1982]

I'm getting close to completing January 2008 and have come across the birth of Deaf Jeff. I'm looking forward to the 2007 show when clumsey Westwood makes his appearances though.

[slaphead1982]

I have a slightly unusual request.
Can somebody delete my 2008 shows upload posts? They are well over the requested bit rate and I have finally found a way round it. Ianpwilliams advice was helpful (I thankyou) but not fullproof (I thankyou almost )so I have developed a way round it to come to the same conclusion. So I will upload all of Jan. 2008 in the next week (Please be understanding if it takes longer) at the requested file size.
P.S. I'm not sure if the 2008/01/07 show was properly edited (i.e music and not conversations taken out) so I have re-edited it. Apolagies for the sharp edit (not into silence) but my hardrive does not let me have the privalige of doing such a thing and keeping a near listanable sound quality.
Thankyou in advance if my request is acheavable.

[Ajayrious]

Can someone upload the show from the 19th March 2012 where Chris sat in for Greg James. I notice its in some peoples lists, but it doesn't seem to have been uploaded.

[DarroM]

I think it was uploaded to the sound vault by Nicola! Will get a link for you!

http://chrismoyles.net/soundvault/sound ... ileid=2630

[bmstinton93]

I have a slightly unusual request.
Can somebody delete my 2008 shows upload posts? They are well over the requested bit rate and I have finally found a way round it. Ianpwilliams advice was helpful (I thankyou) but not fullproof (I thankyou almost )so I have developed a way round it to come to the same conclusion. So I will upload all of Jan. 2008 in the next week (Please be understanding if it takes longer) at the requested file size.
P.S. I'm not sure if the 2008/01/07 show was properly edited (i.e music and not conversations taken out) so I have re-edited it. Apolagies for the sharp edit (not into silence) but my hardrive does not let me have the privalige of doing such a thing and keeping a near listanable sound quality.
Thankyou in advance if my request is acheavable.

Message Nicola just in case she misses this post. She can do it for you.

[ianpwilliams]

I have a slightly unusual request.
Can somebody delete my 2008 shows upload posts? They are well over the requested bit rate and I have finally found a way round it. Ianpwilliams advice was helpful (I thankyou) but not fullproof (I thankyou almost )so I have developed a way round it to come to the same conclusion. So I will upload all of Jan. 2008 in the next week (Please be understanding if it takes longer) at the requested file size.
P.S. I'm not sure if the 2008/01/07 show was properly edited (i.e music and not conversations taken out) so I have re-edited it. Apolagies for the sharp edit (not into silence) but my hardrive does not let me have the privalige of doing such a thing and keeping a near listanable sound quality.
Thankyou in advance if my request is acheavable.

Yeah I find that you can normally get down to around 192kHz or 128kHz and still retain good sound quality, although I'm guessing that would depend on the software used, and no doubt the sound card as well.

As for fades, Audacity (or whatever you're using) should be able to easily do fades to silence and fades from silence. It doesn't really bother me how it's done though anyway. The only thing I prefer (which I know other people don't) is to have the news edited out, a I listen to Moyles to make me laugh, and the news can be a bit depressing sometimes! It's up to you how you do it though. I'm planning on going through and editing any news out of other people's edits at some point, but that's just for my own benefit really.

And I'm sure you already know this, but you can upload multiple shows to the same page at once on IA, and then you can create separate hyperlinks on this forum thread, with each one referring to each mp3 link on the IA page. Just makes it a lot easier than uploading each mp3 one at a time.

[ianpwilliams]

I think it was uploaded to the sound vault by Nicola! Will get a link for you!

http://chrismoyles.net/soundvault/sound ... ileid=2630

Shall I upload it to the archive anyway? Or we could just add the link to the archive? Are we including shows where Moyles sits in for someone else?

[bmstinton93]

We may as well include it. This archive needs another update. Johnny?

[Nicola_Red]

I have a slightly unusual request.
Can somebody delete my 2008 shows upload posts? They are well over the requested bit rate and I have finally found a way round it. Ianpwilliams advice was helpful (I thankyou) but not fullproof (I thankyou almost )so I have developed a way round it to come to the same conclusion. So I will upload all of Jan. 2008 in the next week (Please be understanding if it takes longer) at the requested file size.
P.S. I'm not sure if the 2008/01/07 show was properly edited (i.e music and not conversations taken out) so I have re-edited it. Apolagies for the sharp edit (not into silence) but my hardrive does not let me have the privalige of doing such a thing and keeping a near listanable sound quality.
Thankyou in advance if my request is acheavable.

Done, I think - someone let me know if I missed any.