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<p>> From: John K Muir <jkmuir at trentu.ca>
> Subject: Help in finding a native Ogg trim, fade & nomalise tool
> 
> My specific interest lies in a project which involves the digital ingest of about
> 13,000 CDs, 8000 LPs and various and sundry other tape and disc formats
> into a online intranet resource for programmers at non profit community radio
> facility.
> 
> The tests of the codec were very satisfying, and for all the reasons spelled out
> on the http://www.vorbis.com site. We are excited at the prospect of using a
> non-proprietary codec in our non-profit organisation.
> 
> Our problem is that we really want to get it as good as we can the first time
> around.
> While we do plan on keeping all the audio materials, once an item is digitised,
> we hope it will be a long time before the original is dug up and re-encoded.
> And we believe it would be wise for us to avoid "transcoding" if at all possible.
> 
> The rough outline of the plan is to use Win98SE with Audiograbber and the Ogg
> codec
> system to make analogue recordings and rip the CDs .
> 
> The resulting ogg and associated files (meta date, such as  text & graphics) will
> reside on a network attached server, with perhaps a SQL application running
> on an independent  cpu to handle searches from other workstations on the LAN.
> 
> The one tool which doesn't seem to exist yet for the Ogg format is the equivalent
> of something like MP3Trim,  http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
> which provides a convenient method of trimming,  normalising and fading MP3 files
> with the need to decode and reencode.  I have tried VCut, but it behaved in a way
> which I did not understand, and did not seem to work at all with a Variable Bit
> Rate
> Ogg file.
> 
> I would very much appreciate finding out if there is such a tool which can be used
> 
> like MP3Trim, or if someone is working on one.
> 
> I know there are number methods to trim and normalise a wav file prior to it being
> encoded, but
> its would be better to be able to manipulate audio once it is the ogg format as
> well.
> 
> Without this tool or some hope that some method to provide these functions will
> come into
> being in the next few months, we will not be able to commit to the Ogg format.
> 
> Would it be any incentive to announce that we would we would make a donation
> ($100)
> to the Xiph.org Foundation and tell our listeners to to do the same, while
> producing and
> airing radio programmes about the work of the foundation?
> 
> All the best // John
> 
> http://www.trentradio.ca
> 
> 
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