Festive Fifty help

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--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "andthezmore" <andthezmore@...> wrote:
>
> > 
> > There are a couple of news bulletins at the end of some of the 
> 
> ??? I always thought it was interesteing to hear the news 'of
> the day' as well as the music, so I've always left it in.

I prefer them with news too, but in this case some of them are quite 
long (Radio 2 after midnight). 

Also, the timesignal in these recordings can be very useful for 
adjusting an incorrect recording speed, if you zoom in on a 
timesignal with audacity you can figure out the adjustment that you 
need to change it back to the original speed.  The time difference 
between the beebs should be exactly one second.

Another tip for fixing an incorrect recording speed: if you encode 
with "lame" you can specify a different sample rate.  You only have 
to make sure it doesn't read the .wav header, you can do this with 
the -r option, then you can use the -s option to specify a different 
sample rate, the -x option may also be necessary for a correct byte 
order.

So for example:

  lame -x -s 41.5 -r recording.wav recording.mp3

slows down the speed with about 6%, this is what I used for the 70's 
and 80's shows posted by Andrew.

BTW, if anyone is interested in a copy of these shows with adjusted 
speed, here is a torrent for the ones that I managed to download:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/jpdl/Julian_tapes.torrent

I think I got most of them, but I wasn't able to download "810407 
Peel Programme 7th April 1981 Sessions from B-Movies & Positive 
Noise".

B.