How do you check tech specs on others' recordings?

JayKitty76 · Post by **JayKitty76** » October 16th, 2018, 12:43 pm

I was wondering, since I am considering giving feedback on the Listeners/Editors Wanted forum (for 1-Minute tests and that sort of thing), how do you check tech specs on other volunteers' recordings (e.g., whether Constant/128 kbps is turned on right, if the kbps rate is something other than 128, etc etc)? Also, since I am going into BCing in a few days, I may get a new volunteer who needs their 1-Minute test checked over. Any replies will be appreciated. Thanks!

moniaqua · Post by **moniaqua** » October 16th, 2018, 1:13 pm

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑October 16th, 2018, 12:43 pm how do you check tech specs on other volunteers' recordings (e.g., whether Constant/128 kbps is turned on right, if the kbps rate is something other than 128, etc etc)?

With Checker, like I do mine.

How do you check your's?

If you can check your own recordings, you can check the ones of others as well.

JayKitty76 wrote: ↑October 16th, 2018, 12:43 pm since I am considering giving feedback on the Listeners/Editors Wanted forum

Post by **TriciaG** » October 16th, 2018, 1:43 pm

Yep, Checker: http://cgjennings.ca/checker/

Don't trust it fully for background noise, since a reader could have appended absolute silence to the end, skewing the results. A human to check things like background noise and clipping works much better than an algorithm.

JayKitty76 · Post by **JayKitty76** » October 16th, 2018, 2:12 pm

Oh! Thank you guys, currently I do not have Checker so I'll be sure to download it! Thanks Tricia and Monika!

JayKitty76 · Post by **JayKitty76** » October 16th, 2018, 2:13 pm

moniaqua wrote: ↑October 16th, 2018, 1:13 pm How do you check your's? If you can check your own recordings, you can check the ones of others as well.

I check mine in Audacity, going under File>Export and then at the bottom of the little window that pops up there are all these different options for saving, but the ones that are suggested (auto-chosen) for me are the ones I always save them as.

JayKitty76 · Post by **JayKitty76** » October 16th, 2018, 2:30 pm

Ah, okay...got Checker and I think I've figured it out. In order to check tech specs for others, however, I just gotta right-click on the .mp3 file and choose Save Target As on my desktop, because so far as I know, I can only choose files that are already saved in my computer folder. (Whew! Does that make sense, or am I talking gibberish?

) Thanks again for your help!

tovarisch · Post by **tovarisch** » October 16th, 2018, 3:56 pm

Yes, only local files, so, right-click, Save link as... (or whatever the choice is in your browser to download the file). Some operating systems have built-in properties where you can see the bitrate, mono/stereo and length, but they won't calculate the volume, so Checker is our best bet for now. Perhaps eventually there will be a version of Checker which can be fed a link to a file, but not yet...

JayKitty76 · Post by **JayKitty76** » October 16th, 2018, 6:21 pm

Oh, okay, thank you Tovarisch. I'll remember that!