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[hhtmp88]

Dear all,

I have done some voice recording using my mobile phone, and the sound files are in *.amr format, so how can I edit them directly?

-> which plugin should I download?


Thanks for any kind of help!

Rgds,
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[poivre]

i was not able to open amr files

you can convert it to wav before editing wih Wavosaur

cheers

[hhtmp88]

This would make the file size much much bigger!

-> so will Wavosaur add this feature later?
-> here is the related info:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec

Rgds,
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JMY(晉明夷)
http://mfYoga.org -- Mindfulness Yoga Association /瑜伽 /瑜伽班 /靜坐班
http://TimYoga.net -- Yoga, Body &Mind /Yoga class /Meditation Class

[xpander]

I can't see the point of bigger filesizes at all. Any computer from or near this century is able to work with most uncompressed audio files, not to even mention smaller compressed ones like mp3s easy enough. AMR files are so much smaller again that the slight (?) decrease in size after the conversion should be no problem at all?

After all, how would you think Wavosaur would handle the files size wise, if it would do the conversion?

As for native editing, 3GPP has some licensing fees for their codecs. I don't know how they would apply for applications like Wavosaur, but since free conversion software is already available, why not give them a try?
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Misc__Sound_Tools/Mobile_AMR_converter.html

[hhtmp88]

Thanks Xpander for your comment!

My thought is that:
-> if something that is small, why make it big?
-> bigger file means more shared power consumptions and hence bigger CARBON FOOTPRINT

and users should be more happier if they can edit and save something directly, and no conversion back & forth.

Thanks &Rgds,
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JMY(晉明夷)
http://mfYoga.org -- Mindfulness Yoga Association /瑜伽 /瑜伽班 /靜坐班
http://TimYoga.net -- Yoga, Body &Mind /Yoga class /Meditation Class

[xpander]

I'm well impressed about the level of your commitment to the enviromental issues! However, at this stage I think it's quite hard to pinpoint the real problems and hence solutions, without possibly missing some bigger issues.

My phone doesn't have camera, record audio nor play it. I use it sparingly and only when really needed anyway. I quess that alone entitles me to occasionally indulge for example in 24-bit 44.1kHz audio, which I can edit and play with systems already developed, gear already made. That in and of itself doesn't take anything more out of the current reserves, but just hangs it in equilibrium, as far as I'm considered...no matter how delicate that balance really is.

Point often missed nowadays seems to be, that many of the supposed ways (especially technological advances) of bettering conditions in our lovely blue planet can actually be by far worse to the nature than some which are currently ran. One real solution, dead fast and easy as such, would be to have less of everything, right now. Somehow that is also the hardest thing to do. We live interesting times. Thanks for the inspiration, hhtmp88.

[FordMustang]

uncompressed formats kill the planet

[xpander]

Hmm, no wonder common music is so flat but heavy, compressed to the max...nature conscious people all around.

Still, audio as it exists in nature and live is about the only form where it's not compressed in any way and by no means (even though the audio sources themselves might well already be). So going by our latest axiom, the planet will kill itself by way of sound. That is, if clever people won't succeed innit first.