My feeds record everything in the usual half hour segments. I've noticed that a couple of other feed archives remove the dead air time. How is this done? I can't seem to find the place to turn on this option.
Joe
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Removing dead air in archive recordings
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Feeds which have very little radio traffic may have the dead air in the archive purged by the system. It seems to be an automatic function of Broadcastify - there's no way to turn it on or off that I'm aware of.
Audacity can do that, load up the mp3 file and go to effects --->Truncate Silence.
I guess it's not a user option for Broadcasity to truncate silent times.
Thanks for the tip on Audacity. I'll try it out.
Thanks for the tip on Audacity. I'll try it out.
iMONITOR
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What scanner are you using? Some scanner's can do that, some software can do that.
majoco
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I use a programme called "ScanRec" - you can set an audio squelch which stops recording when there's no input. Stereo too, so I record the output from two scanners. You can choose to keep all the audio as one, or split it up into separate sections.
Scanrec Scanner Recorder
Scanrec Scanner Recorder
iMONITOR
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Possibly the best ever! It was developed by Dave Jacobs. He used to have a website www.davee.com I donated to the cause a few times, it was well worth it and I wanted to support it buy he just dropped out of site one day. I wish he'd make a comeback and see what else he could do with it today!
I'm using an Icom R-7000 on one of my feeds and a Radio Shack Pro2006 on the other one. The problem is not the scanner, but how Broadcastify records the audio.
I've used ScanRec and ScanRec Plus in the past for locally recording audio. ScanRec Plus was a limited Beta product that recorded time and frequency (if I remember correctly). It was a paid version (donation) of his software. As someone said, Dave just seemed to loose interest and vanished from the product. I don't think it runs on the newer OS like WIN10.
Audacity also has a feature to eliminate dead air time. It's called "Sound activated recording". Look under Edit->Preferences->Recording.
I use this now instead of ScanRec Pro, but it doesn't record time and frequency like ScanRec Pro did.
I've used ScanRec and ScanRec Plus in the past for locally recording audio. ScanRec Plus was a limited Beta product that recorded time and frequency (if I remember correctly). It was a paid version (donation) of his software. As someone said, Dave just seemed to loose interest and vanished from the product. I don't think it runs on the newer OS like WIN10.
Audacity also has a feature to eliminate dead air time. It's called "Sound activated recording". Look under Edit->Preferences->Recording.
I use this now instead of ScanRec Pro, but it doesn't record time and frequency like ScanRec Pro did.
It's a function that we can enable on our side. I went ahead and enabled it for your feeds
OK, Thanks. It saves time listening to the file.
I just discovered something else nice when silence is removed from the archive files. When you use the online audio player, it will automatically play files in time sequence from the date/time you start at. Neat. For example, I can pick a time yesterday to start playing files and it will play all the files in sequence until it reaches the newest file. I can listen to a 24 hour period of recordings in a few minutes (my feed is lightly used) with a single click of the mouse. Very nice feature that I didn't know existed.
Is there a list of features like this somewhere? I've never seen this particular feature documented.
Is there a list of features like this somewhere? I've never seen this particular feature documented.
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