10.4.7 and SonicStudio•DDP

If you are using this combination of software and are having problems booting DDP visit Sonic Studio’s Downloads page. 10.4.7 requires a specific version of the Sentinel driver.

soundBlade to use iZotope dither and SRC

iZotope, Inc. is pleased to announce that SonicStudio, LLC of San Anselmo, CA is licensing iZotope’s MBIT+ dither and 64-bit SRC sample rate conversion algorithms for inclusion in Sonic Studio’s soundBlade native.

More developments from Sonic Studio. Press release pdf

The iPod Blog: Of lossless and libraries

Thanks to iTunes 7’s support for multiple iTunes Libraries, Jason Snell may never have to rip his CD collection again.

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A good idea

First Look at Rogue Amoeba Fission

You don’t always need a table saw; sometimes a pocket knife will do. I just finished editing audio with Rogue Amoeba’s Fission, and it did exactly what I needed: no more, no less.

This just-released Universal Binary sound editor focuses on cutting audio. Sounds simple, and you probably already have a tool to handle that. But with Fission, I can open a MP3 file, snip out an offending segment, then save the edited file without recompressing it. Hmmm…. that is really handy.

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iTunes vs. DVD movie quality

Hacking Netflix has posted screen shots of the Life Aquatic from both the iTunes Movie Store version and the DVD version. Steve Jobs claimed “near” DVD quality but I think it is closer to “farther” rather than “near”. You can obviously see the iTunes movie is blurrier and lacking sharp detail.

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Don’t you wish it were just as easy to illustrate the compromises made when listening to AAC at 128 kpbs versus compact disc? Take this illustration with a grain of salt. It’s certainly not the definitive comparison.

Warner to send videos through YouTube

Warner to send videos through YouTube  —  SAN FRANCISCO – Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry’s migration to the Internet.

Source:   Associated Press

Author:   Michael Liedtke

Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_on_hi_te…

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AES Survival Guide Home

• Getting around the city, from maps to weather to public transit
• Finding Moscone, navigating the booth maze
• Dining near Moscone and around town
• Need some fresh air? Mix editors’ favorite places to play hooky
• What to do when the sun goes down
• You know about the Summer of Love. You know about Rice-A-Roni. But did you know…

Link to Feature

Mix has gotten into the travel guide business? In any case, this should be handy for those of us heading to San Francisco for the upcoming AES Convention.

Burn music with CD Text in iTunes 7

Not so much a hint as pointing out a new feature that isn’t listed on the iTunes overview page:

iTunes 7 supports burning CD text (only about five years too late). On the Burning tab in iTunes’ preferences, there is now an option to ‘Inlcude CD Text’ when burning a music CD. I don’t remember this option being there in iTunes 6.

This option is not enabled by default — you need to go and turn it on (at least I did after upgrading to iTunes 7).

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Interesting. But read the comments. It may not be the CD Text you are expecting.

DTS Offers Content Providers Complete Audio Solutions for Next Generation Optical Disc Formats

Designed to provide flexibility for content providers and immediate audio improvement with existing home theater equipment, the solution entails a series of new logos that communicate the varying quality levels to consumers: DTS-HD Master Audio, for sound bit-for-bit identical to the master soundtrack, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, for audio that is nearly identical to the master soundtrack, and DTS Encore, which delivers 5.1 channels of audio at twice the resolution found on most standard DVDs.

This is a press release from the recent IBC in Amsterdam. It includes a brief explanation of the three levels of quality: DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Encore.

News: Apple previews iTV home theater playback box

The set-top box code-named iTV — which won’t ship until early 2007 — allows iTunes customers to view movie and TV shows flat-screen TVs.

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As on most of Apple’s other products there is an optical digital audio output, in this case in the form of a Toslink connector.