High Resoulution Audio Files

Hi everybody,
I figured out that it is possible to playback FLAC and WAV Files up to 24bit / 96KHz resolution on Z1, Z1 Compact, Z Ultra and Z2 devices. Even multi-channel FLAC files are decoded properly.
The question is whether the WALKMAN is playing back these files in their native resolution or if they are downscaled on the fly to 16bit/44.1KHz ?
Sound quality is great. But could be better - and LOUDER. Come on SONY, you promised us to give the very best of SONY to us in the Z series. But it isn't :
* The image sensor and lens are great, but the software could be improved for real compact camera level images and thus it's not the best of SONY
* The WALKMAN audio quality is not on par with the ZX Walkman or the F series (we need an S Master Amplifier !) and thus it's not the best of SONY

Contact Sony directly
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

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The following audio files were created by Virginia (Stasik) Zarow at the request of Laura (Stasik) Schmidt and Carrie (Stasik) Kot. There were a total of five cassette tapes, ranging from 1 hour to a 1 1/2 halfs in length. Scott Freeson converted each tape to digital format and then they were broken down into various segments for a total of 7 audio files. It is recommended that you listen to each tape in the order presented to maintain the proper timeline and context.<br /><br /></p>
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- The 1936 flood<br />
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- The final demise<br /><br /></span>
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<span class="standardparagraph">Summer of 1944 to December of 1945<br />
- Meeting of Frank Zarow<br />
- New Years Eve - 1944<br />
- Prom Night - May 1945<br />
- First boyfriend, Eddie Yesh<br />
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- Meeting of Ted Zaroff<br />
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- Break-up with Eddie Yesh<br />
- Frank Zarow passes away<br />
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- New Years Eve 1946<br />
- John courts Virginia<br />
- First date with John<br />
- John's father passes away<br />
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It is 1 am Tuesday morning and I'd do a primal scream if my family weren't all sleeping upstairs.
Somewhere along the way, I either read or was given the advice to just skip AME, load my videos as timelines in Encore, and just do the transcoding there.
I spent almost a day trying to figure out how to get "buttons" for my menus I was building (they weren't appearing in Encore's library like they should) and eventually found a simply workaround.
So I then spent the last 24 hours or so building all my menus, creating small clips for my "motion menu" buttons, getting all that straightened away.
Got really excited earlier tonight since it seemed like I was nearly finished and coming down the home stretch.
I hit "build" in Encore, went away for a couple hours, and came back to find a big error message awaiting me telling me that "Encoding Failed."
I have read a lot of posts, and the outlook is not good, or at least the possible solution not simple or short from a time perspective.
I have a 100 families awaiting their DVD they've paid for that they initially were told they'd have by mid-February. I've been telling everybody that they would have it - guaranteed - by this weekend when there's a band festival that would be ideal for distribution. The DVD duplication company says they have to have it by Wed morning at the absolute latest. Meaning I've got about 24 hours to figure this out and burn my dual-layer masters of the two DVDs or once again tell people "I know I guaranteed you'd have it by this weekend, but I don't have it ready yet."
Almost as importantly, I can't afford to keep spending the hours and hours and hours on this that I have. It's impacting my personal and professional life.
Thus the primal scream.
The posts I read about the encoding failure all pretty much advise that I use AME to do all the transcoding work. Which of course brings me squarely back to my original problem: I cannot get a video file out of AME.
I'm embedding a screenshot of what I see when I click on the pull-down menu in the AME dialogue window. The problem: there is no MPEG2-DVD option listed to be chosen.
Although I'm relatively new to forums, I've read enough posts by now that it seems like most people are in crisis mode when they post. So I realize my situation is not all that unique. But from a newbie rookie in the field to you experts, I REALLY could use some assistance right now, because between this and the long, cold winter we've had, I'm about to lose it. :-)
P.S. Mark, in answer to your question about frame rates, I have 18 different videos/films/projects that I'm including in my two DVD-set. There have probably been nearly 6-7 different cameras that have contributed footage to one or more of those films by borrowing camcorders of different brands and types and quality levels from people. Nearly every one of those 18 films have multi-camera sequences in them. And many films are collections of sequences which themselves are "nested sequences" sometimes three deep. In otherwords, there is no way I can tell you all the various frame rates that may be represented among these 18 separate projects and I certainly can't go back and hope to change them all to the same one.
Help. Please. :-)

HOW TO MAKE A HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO DVD WITH PREMIERE CS2

I have been working with my CS2 Premiere to create some auto play high definition, audio-only DVDs that are autoplay. To clear the air, yes I know that CS4 will permit 24bit-96 kHz. For the time being 16 bit-48 kHz, is still better (marginally) than CD, but it permits greater playing times. Yes, I know that the autoplay without menues "feature" is bogus, and was never corrected by Adobe. So much for their interest in their customers.
I found a simple workaround for the autoplay/no menues feature. Just make a DVD-RW with menues. Then use DVD-DeCryper/Shrink/Nero - whatever to make an autoplay DVD onto a permanent disc. It works well.
Here is my latest crazy problem: How to get really long playing time. I know I can make high qualitye DVD-A's up to 3 hours using Minatonka Bronze. Unfortunately, DVD-A discs are worthless as they cannot play in 90% of DVD players, but they prove the time point.
I have three 48 kHz files that I created in Adobe Audion. The were 1.599, 0.911, and 0.974 GBs in size. That added up to 3.480. The playing time is about 2:30 Hours; quite a bit less than 3 hours.   I tried burning a DVD with these, audio-files-only. I checked lowest quality video, used no video, and got an Export To DVD error that I had "insufficient" space on the 4.7 GB disc! So, I used the two latter files, which added to only 1.884 GB. Premiere did not baulk, and it successfully burned a DVD that played. Then I added the 1.599 GB file, and, once again, it produced an error. This was clearly not going to work.
At this point, I realized that Audition had done what it liked to do: It had saved the 16 bit-48 kHz files as 32 bit-48 kHz! So, I went back to Audition and used EDIT to change the files to genuine 16 bit-48 kHz files. When I opened them in Premiere, Premiere reported 16 bit-48 kHz files. Their sizes were now, 0.799, 0.456, and 0.487 GB. Please note that this totals 1.742 GB. This is less than the 1.884 GB I had successfully used before.   Once again, I was getting the "inssufficient" space error. This is nuts. The disc can hold 4.3+ GB, but won't fit 1.742.GB.
So, anybody got some ideas?
Mike

Jim,
I cannot believe you are wasting my time and the space of this forum with your irrelevances. It would have been better had you just tried to answer my question, which is the purpose of these forums. Why engage in useless chatter?
I said nothing about any great sonic difference betweein 16/48 and 16/44 digital audio; I said "marginally."   In English that means very little difference. I'm not going to prove to you with distortion and frequency response plots that there is some minor difference, it is a fact of life. You, in fact, just stated a difference. The difference between a 24 kHz cutoff and a 22 kHz custoff is a difference which you give, to back up your absurd statement that there is no difference. This can actually translate to a minor, difference in THD at higher audio frequencies, but who cares?   Well, you apparently care, because your beligerant non-reply to my question was that "fewer...would notice ." In English that means that some would notice.
What my question had to do with MP3 junk, or multichannel sound, I don't know. Why should I do, as you suggest, and make DVD-A's when one needs only stereo? This is a Premier forum, not a DVD-A forum. Why not bother DVD-A junkies on Minatonka fourms? DVDs can handle stereo PCM very nicely. Classic Audio has marketed their 24/96 DADs for many years and so have a few other companies.   They have been well received by some "golden eared" types. I hope they don't upset you. There is a good possibility that DVD may only be around as a "legacy" feature on BLU RAY in future years. DVD-A was DOA years ago and SACD may go just away; DVD-A is almost that. So, PCM stereo sound DVD's are a good bet that the resultant disc will be playable on many people's players as well as future players. The longer playing time that may be available would make listening to concerts easier, rather than breaking them up into segments.
If you want to argue my motives, or tastes, I suggest you go to another forum and discuss you theories. If you actually have something productive to say about the problem I pointed out, that would be welcome.
Mike

Sequence Panel and CTI lock-up - Solved, problem due to 48kHz .wav audio files

Answering my own issue here, but maybe someone else will benefit as well...
PC, Windows 7
Upon opening an ongoing project I found the sequence panel and CTI were immediately unresponsive. The PC was also showing a high amount of background processing on the PrPro processes. I went back to a previous project version and everything was normal.
In the latest (problem) version I had added some VO to the sequence - audio .wav files encoded as 48kHz, 16bit.
I then renamed the audio file folder and reopened the newest project, causing PrPro to not find them and placed them offline. Everything returned to normal.
I then converted the 48kHz audio files to 44.1, 16bit and reopened the project, designating the new files to replace the old. Again, opeing the newest project, everything was OK and I was able to continue on.
It seems that the 48kHz files were causing PrPro to hard-loop in a background process in the indexing, conforming and peak file generation phase. I found when using the problematic project that the sequence panle adn CTI were actually responding, but only after a very long delay. An example would be to try to reposition the CTI with no response, then clicking play and stop in the playback window, then the CTI would update.

That is odd
When I do DV project with video that is digitized by my old Pinnacle DV500 card, the audio inside the DV AVI is always 48khz 16bit stereo... and I do, of course, create a project to match the files

Resolution of album arts associated with audio files - downscaled?

The iPod can display album art with a maximum resolution of 240 by 240 pixels. What happens if a picture file of higher resolution is associated with some audio tracks?
Is it being downscaled and then, with far less space required, transfered to the device?
And another question unrelated to the one above: I saw the font size changing between audio files, although their file name or description isn't longer than the ones being displayed regularly. Is this a bug?
Is there a way to change the font size? It'd be very handy since titles of tracks that are longer than the screen can display, it's a mess to wait until it scrolled all the way through...
Thanks!
Message was edited by: dr. orange

Hello dr. orange,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Is it being downscaled and then, with far less space required, transfered to the device?
That is correct. During the syncing process, a smaller scaled down version of each track's artwork is created and then transferred to the iPod.
I'm not entirely sure about the font size issue you are seeing, but there is no way to adjust this on the Nano.
If you wish to, you can provide feedback to Apple on it through this link.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodnano.html
Hope this helps.
B-rock

How does Airplay transfer audio file format to an Airport Express?

Hi, everyone
How does Airplay transfer audio file format to an Airport Express?
Many from the Internet claim that iTunes encodes an AIFF file format into an Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) file format before sending signal to an Airport Express.
Is that true?
If so, would it still make sense for me to have AIFF files on my music server
or should I have ALAC files instead?
Please advise.
Thank you.
BR,
George Lien

Many from the Internet claim that iTunes encodes an AIFF file format into an Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) file format before sending signal to an Airport Express.
Is that true?
Yes. The AirPort Express Base Station (AX) works only with iTunes v4.6+ and is limited to music files that iTunes can read; ie, 16-bit data only. These data, though, can be in any file format that iTunes recognizes, from lossy MP3s at the low-quality end of the spectrum to Apple Lossless and lossless AIFF or WAV files at the high end. It is also important to note that the AX functions only at a 44.1kHz sample rate. When you play 32kHz or 48kHz data, iTunes sample-rate-converts the data in real time before sending it to the AX.
iTunes uses a QuickTime CODEC to convert audio files to Apple Lossless, and then, uses AirPlay to send them to the AX. In turn, the AX uses built-in software that converts the Apple Lossless to an Encoded Digital Audio format. From there, digital audio is sent to a optical transceiver to convert the electrical signal to an optical one before sending it to the innermost part of the audio port. For analog, the AX has a built-in DAC to convert the Encoded Digital Audio to Analog which is sent to the same audio port.
If so, would it still make sense for me to have AIFF files on my music server
or should I have ALAC files instead?
If you have audio files in both formats, I would elect just to keep the ALAC (.m4a) files on the music server.

PSE 9 Organizer error codec trying to add an Elements audio file to slide show

I am using PSE 9 to build a slide show. When I add audio, I can use mp3's from my music library in the slide show without any issues ...
but I am getting the following error when I try to add an Elements audio file (example " A _Taste_Of_Sicily.mp3)
This is the Organizer error message:
"Unable to add the audio file (C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ElementsOrganizer\8.0\Music\A_Taste_Of_Sicily.mp3).
The selected file cannot be played because your system does not have the required compresser/decompresser(codec) installed."
I had PSE 8 and upgraded to PSE 9 - I noticed the error file detail shows 8.0 - Is this my problem - maybe an incomplete upgrade ? (I've made several slideshows mixing photos and music, on an older computer using PSE 8 and never ran into this issue.)
Below is my system info in case that helps:
OS=Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on an HP Pavillion dv7
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-430M Dual Core processor (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 Cache) with Turbo Boost up to 2.53GHz
8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
512MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) HD 5470 switchable graphics
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
Thanks for any help !

beccarie1 wrote:
This is the Organizer error message:
"Unable to add the audio file (C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ElementsOrganizer\8.0\Music\A_Taste_Of_Sicily.m p3).
The selected file cannot be played because your system does not have the required compresser/decompresser(codec) installed."
Does that file extension really have a space in it? If so, remove the space.
Ken

FLAC audio files in iTunes - How should I convert?

I want to put some FLAC recordings/audio/songs I have in my iTunes. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, iTunes will not accept that format. Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to re-format those files to something iTunes will accept (like WAV, AIFF, .mp3, etc.)??
Also, as a side note, I would rather convert higher to something like WAV files as to not compress further and take down the higher-quality audio that a FLAC file provides.
Any and all thoughts/suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!!

Give this a whirl:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23430/x-lossless-decoder
For a substitute format, Apple Lossless is supported in all Apple software and on all Apple devices, or you can use WAV or AIFF if you wish, though Apple Lossless will have smaller file sizes (than AIFF, at least). MP3, AAC and other "lossy" compressed formats will lose quality.
Regards.

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