Trimming silence from start and end of mp3

The presence of 3 to 7 seconds of silence at the
beginning and end of mp3 files makes it all but
impossible to achieve consistant crossovers in my
internet radio station. I'd like to find a utility
that would automatically trim the silence from the
beginning and end of a group of mp3 files. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all for your replies. I have MP3 Trimmer, but I am not looking forward to hand trimming thousands of mp3 files. I was hoping to find something similar to IVolume, that could automatically analyze and trim a group of files.
I have multiple computers running ITunes with an Applescript that controls the timing; inserting station ids, announcements etc. I'd like to be able to program my automation with tight cuts and crossfades where I want them. The wide variety of silent periods at the beginning and end of the mp3s makes this impossible.
A utility that could strip out the silence automatically would make me quite happy.

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Triggering a 6024E into data acquisition from start and end number of finite pulse generator from a 6602

My motion control system is driven by a 6602 I wanted to acquire analog current (to a voltage via I/V converter) from a 6024 AI when:
(1) At the start of the pulse generation
(2) Stop at the end of the pulse generation
(3) Read every possible data between and stream it on the harddisk
(4) Option to skip at regular intervals to reduce amount of data accumulation
Anyone have some suggestions? What I did try and attempted was to "loop an AI from a triggered intermediate Analog Input VIs" this is rather erratic!My question for the analog input software are:
(1)Can you trigger an AI to start a continuous acquisition?
(2) How do you do AI from a "start" p
ulse train to "end" pulse train?
(3) How do you manage time for File I/O meanwhile doing (1) and (2) above?
Bernardino Jerez Buenaobra
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"(1)Can you trigger an AI to start a continuous acquisition?
(2) How do you do AI from a "start" pulse train to "end" pulse train?
(3) How do you manage time for File I/O meanwhile doing (1) and (2) above?"
Answer 1 and 2)
Yes you can, This VI is part of the search examples that ships with LV:
"Continuous Acquisition & Graph Using Digital Triggering and External Scan Clock
Demonstrates how to continuously retrieve data from one or more analog input channels using an external scan clock when a digital start trigger occurs."
Go to Search Examples in the Help/Contents of LV. Then pick I/O Interfaces/Data Acquisition (DAQ)/Analog Input/Triggering an Acquisition/Triggering a Continuous Acquistion.
This VI is appropriate ifs you want to clock the DAQ with some clock (external scan clock) other than the on board clock.
The start trigger required by the DAQ card will be a TTL signal attached to the PFI0/TRIG1 pin of you DAQ card (via whatever signal conditioning you have).
The external clock also needs to be TTL and is attached to the PFI7/STARTSCAN pin.
You tell it which AI channel to use and wire that up appropriately.
All of this stuff is in the context help for the VI.
Answer 3)
You have a misconception of how the acquisition makes its way into a file on the hard disk. You don't really "stream to disk." The VI above will run a buffered acquisition. The DAQ card sets up a buffer that fills with the data continously. When you use the VI you set up how the buffer is configured, you will see controls for buffer size, number of scans to read at a time, etc. The acquisition runs data into the buffer continously and reads from the buffer are a parallel process where chuncks of the buffer are extracted serially. You can end up with a scan backlog where the reads are falling behind the data. Making the buffer bigger helps. All of this is limited by the sampling capability of the DAQ card. 200kSamples/second is for one channel of AI. Divide by 2 for 2 channels. etc.
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The VI above writes the scan out to the waveform chart on the front panel. You will want to wire that data out from the AI Read Sub VI to a spreadsheet file in tab delimited form or similar.
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"Continously" is usually reserved for screen writes as in the VI above. The computer is not required to continually allocate space for an ever expanding array to be written as a file later. Each time this VI runs the While Loop the data goes to the waveforn chart. Each new AI read overwrites the previous one. Sort of like if you turn the Auto Indexing off. When the VI stops, the waveform chart on screen would show the same data as was written to the spreadsheet.
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Calculate Start and End date in Connect By -- When Hirerchy Changes

/* Formatted on 5/20/2013 9:53:00 AM (QP5 v5.115.810.9015) */
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
Hello , Can some one Please help me or Guide me in calculating Start and End dates for the below logic
I want to calculate the Manager Hirerchy for the given Agent.
Then Below Query is working fine and its giving me the desired results
But when there is a change in the Manager Hirerchy or Manager gets Promoted
Then i need to calculate the start date and end date.
CREATE TABLE PERSON_DTL
SID                 VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
EMP_MGRS_ID         VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
START_EFFECTIVE_DT DATE,
END_EFFECTIVE_DT    DATE
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
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   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M101', 'M102', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('05/18/2013 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('A100', 'M100', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M100', 'M101', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('05/18/2013 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M107', 'M102', TO_DATE('05/20/2013 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M102', 'M103', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M103', 'M104', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('A101', 'M105', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
Insert into PERSON_DTL
   (SID, EMP_MGRS_ID, START_EFFECTIVE_DT, END_EFFECTIVE_DT)
Values
   ('M105', 'M106', TO_DATE('01/01/2010 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), TO_DATE('12/31/9999 00:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
COMMIT;
SELECT   CONNECT_BY_ROOT (b.sid) agent_sid,
             TRIM (
                LEADING ',' FROM    SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (b.sid, ',')
                                 || ','
                                 || b.emp_mgrs_id
                PATH,
             START_EFFECTIVE_DT Start_dt,
             END_EFFECTIVE_DT End_dt
      FROM   PERSON_DTL b
     WHERE   CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF = 1
START WITH   sid IN ('A101', 'A100')
CONNECT BY   PRIOR b.emp_mgrs_id = b.sid
This is the results that i am getting now.
AGENT_SID    PATH                       START_DT    END_DT
A100    A100,M100,M101,M102,M103,M104    1/1/2010    12/31/9999
A100    A100,M100,M107,M102,M103,M104    1/1/2010    12/31/9999
A101    A101,M105,M106                   1/1/2010    12/31/9999
Results Required
A100    A100,M100,M101,M102,M103,M104    1/1/2010    5/18/2013
A100    A100,M100,M107,M102,M103,M104    5/20/2013   12/31/9999
A101    A101,M105,M106                   1/1/2010    12/31/9999

May be this..
SQL> select agent_sid,max(path) path,max(start_dt) start_dt,
2         min(end_dt) end_dt
3 from
4 (
5    select agent_sid,path,start_dt,end_dt,
6           sum(flg) over(order by rn) sm
7    from
8    (
9      select agent_sid,
10             path,
11             start_dt,
12             end_dt,rn,
13             case when path like lag(path) over(order by rn)||'%' then 0 else 1 end flg
14      from
15      (
16        SELECT   CONNECT_BY_ROOT (b.sid) agent_sid,
17                 TRIM (
18                    LEADING ',' FROM    SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (b.sid, ',')
19                                     || ','
20                                     || b.emp_mgrs_id
21                 )
22                  PATH,
23                 START_EFFECTIVE_DT Start_dt,
24                 END_EFFECTIVE_DT End_dt,rownum rn
25        FROM   PERSON_DTL b
26        START WITH   sid IN ('A101', 'A100')
27        CONNECT BY   PRIOR b.emp_mgrs_id = b.sid
28      )
29    )
30 )
31 group by agent_sid,sm
32 order by agent_sid;
AGENT_SID PATH                                     START_DT END_DT
A100       A100,M100,M101,M102,M103,M104            01-JAN-10 18-MAY-13
A100       A100,M100,M107,M102,M103,M104            20-MAY-13 31-DEC-99
A101       A101,M105,M106                           01-JAN-10 31-DEC-99Edited by: jeneesh on May 20, 2013 7:54 PM
Not thoroughly tested.And not sure whether an easy way exists..

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Setup:
I have a gif image that I have on video 1 for say 2 minutes.
I have my real video on video 2. It is a person talking.
First I start with my video full size on top of video 1.
Though the motion and cropping keyframe management I slowly reduce the scale and crop my video image so that it is reduced to the lower left bottom of the screen, on top of the gif, which is now revealed.
My problem is at the start and end of the transition from full video to small box on lower left on top of my gif I often get 1-2 frames where the video goes blank and/or I get a bunch of random red bars on black background appearing on the video - Or I get the gif from video 1 without the video 2 at all (it disappears).
I've tried moving my start of end of the transition to skip the bad spots - but these new transition starts or ends not get their own bad spots in the same way. Its only a couple of frames but it's really unacceptable for the finished video.
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Bill,
Here is more detail and screen captures.
Concept:
I have 3 minutes of video. It contains a person making a speech. During parts of the speech I want to reveal a graphic image that will be discussed. The speech will begin with the speaker full screen. Half way in, the speaker will shrink down to 45% in the lower left corner of the screen. While the animation occurs (the shrink, move and cropping) it will reveal the graphic below. The graphic will take up the full screen with the speaker at 45%.
Technique:
I put the video in Video 2 and the graphic, a GIF image in Video 1. The scene begins with the speaker talking at full screen. After a minute, I animate the move of the speaker using Motion: Scale and Position and Effect: Crop changing Top, Bottom, Left and Right sides. The animation occurs over approximately 8 seconds.
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Problem:
At the beginning and end of the animation – usually 1-3 frames from the start and 1-3 frames from the end, where the change has barely begun or almost ended, I get these problems. On some frames, the video (in Video 2) completely disappears only showing the Video 1 GIF image below. On other frames, the video image turns black with horizontal red bands half way across.
Troublshooting:
I’ve tried deleting all start and end keyframes and moving the start and end earlier or later to see if I can fix this, but the problem continues to show up in these new locations.
I have added a few screen shots.
1:32:15 is the start of the animation change and 1:40:22 is the end of increasing from the mini video speaker to full size (on top of the GIF).
At 1:40:16 the video image completely disappears only showing the GIF below.
At 1:40:17 its back and slowly increases in size through the interpolation until it is full size at 1:40:22.
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Thanks!
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I have the graph start and end points set and scaling by month as I would like but each bar is a day instead of aggregating to a month level. My issue I hope to find a workaround for is if I go to Category Groups and define the grouping
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Hi cybertosis,
If I understand correctly, you want to display all month category label in the X-Axis. You have configure the Scalar Axis, however, it cannot display the requirement format.
In your case, if we want the specific data format, we can configure Number property to set the corresponding Category data format. Please refer to the following steps:
Right click the X-Axis, select Horizontal Axis Properties.
Click Number in the left pane. Click Date option in the Category dialog box.
Then, select Jan 2000 option.
Please refer to the following screenshot below:
If there are any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.
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How to get start and end time of an ESB instance in SOA 10.1.3.4

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Hi Satish
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I have a situation where a service item is bundled with a deliverable item. The order is as follows
Line Item    Mat                                                                 Qty            Higher Level Item
10              Item No.1 (Physical Item)                                  1
20              Item No.2 (Service Item)                                    1               10
For the deliverable item 10 , Revenue is recognized immediately. For the Service item no.20 , revenue needs to be recognized over a period of 1 Year (It is a 1 year service contract).
The whole order is created via BAPI from an external 3rd party order capture system.
In order to do revenue recognition properly for service items , SAP I believe has 2 options
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2. Based on contract start dates
Since order with both the line items need to produce 1 invoice, I cannot use billing plan . The only other option is to use contract start and end dates. I have enabled contract data at the sales order level. So when I enter the contract start and end dates manually at the line item level and set the item category to recognize revenue based on contract start and end dates based on time-based revenue recognition it is working fine.
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How can I make a brush that starts and ends in a thin line?

I am looking to make a brush that I can use for cartooning in CS6 that starts out thin, gets thicker with pressure (I have a cintiq), and ends in a thin line. Does anyone have the expertise to make one?
Thank you.

I watched the first half of the tutorial from your link and some parts of the rest. It is a good tutorial. He is using an art brush which profile was created from an elliptical shape with sharp corners which gives that ink kind of appearance which is good for this kind of style. Most of the time though I prefer the appearance of the rounded ends of the calligraphic brushes. Also one advantage of the calligraphic brushes is that it can change its size or the size of the selected strokes with the [ and ] keys on the keyboard while with the art brushes this is done by changing the stroke weight which also can change the weight of calligraphic brushes in addition to the [ and ] keys.
Like in the tutorial I often use a similar workflow ending up with the brush strokes converted to filled paths but I simply use expand appearance then remove the unwanted parts with the Eraser brush which can be made pressure sensitive in the options that you get when double clicking the Eraser tool. This is less precise than the technique the guy is using in the video tutorial but it is quick, I like the hand touch appearance of the imperfections, and it also allows me to paint the white (transparent) highlights like for example the highlights on the booths of my cowboy. The Blob brush is the tool above the Eraser in the Tool panel and works basically the same like the Eraser but it adds to the fill of a path and it also has these and more options when you double click it. I use it most of the time in a combination with the Eraser to add or remove final details of illustrations started initially with brush strokes and then expanded. And like in the video tutorial I also like to keep a copy with the stage before expanding the brush strokes in case I need some changes on brush stroke level.
I also use a different technique for adding new color fills on the illustrations instead of cutting paths with the knife. I don't like the knife because I often do not like the first cut which I may realize later when undo is not the best workflow. What I do is copy paste in front the path and use the pencil tool set to edit the selected paths and change the shape of the selected path similar to using the knife but the pencil has to start and end on the path. The advantage of this for me is that the new fill with the different color is overlapping the original fill behind and when later I decide to change its shape I don't get gaps between the two colors which is what will happen if the knife was used.

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