[linux-audio-user] Old tracks finaly recorded and mastered

Hi! [Sorry for posting to lad before, tab-completion without checking back ...] Finaly got around to record a number of old tracks that I created using nothing but a GEM S3 keyboard in 1997/98 (well, and my brother's PC for selecting samples and putting them on a floppy for importing). Previoulsy they only existed on floppy and tape and one floppy is corrupted already ... Still in the process of loading them up to archive.org, but some are there by now: In order of my own rating, best at the top: http://www.archive.org/download/s3_07_the_darkness_surrounding_me/thorwil_s… http://www.archive.org/download/s3_06_multibeatmode/thorwil_s3_06_multibeat… http://www.archive.org/download/s3_05_leaving_it_all_behind/thorwil_s3_05_l… http://www.archive.org/download/s3_04_red_sun/thorwil_s3_04_red_sun.ogg http://www.archive.org/download/s3_02_rave_scales/thorwil_s3_02_rave_scales… http://www.archive.org/download/s3_03_blue_beat/thorwil_s3_03_blue_beat.ogg http://www.archive.org/download/s3_08_where_do_i_want_to_go_today/thorwil_s… The detail pages can be reached from here: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thorsten%20Wilms%22 I wouldn't mind people writing reviews there ;) All recorded using the focused Timemachine. Cutting and normalizing with the most enjoyable Sweep. Mastering with the amazing Jamin. Need to practice that some more :). I wasn't aware of how much details can be brought to light using compression. The only problem was having to convert the 32bit float WAVs to 16 bit for lame, as it doesn't recognize that format. I used sndfile-convert for that. Too bad it doesn't take a flag for the output format, but requires filenames for that. But thanks to the nice folks at #lad, it didn't take long to arrive at a bash oneliner for converting a whole directoy. --- Thorsten Wilms