Solve : Convert Old Audio?

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Answer» I was asked to do this from another tech down at where I partially worked at. Thing is that they had backed up there music up to these SCSI Disks BASICALLY a flopped CD thats 3.5 I have the reader an everything cause, his seemed to have trouble. Any rate it was used with something called like the Wizard Audimation that was down there. Thing is there AC2 format which doesnt exsist anymore, I do have the sound card but, it uses IRQ's. Is there an app that will let me convert it out to like a wav or something?If you can play audible sound why not rerecord the sound with a modern device which you can then record to the computer's HDD? truenorththe codex is on the sound card. I am looking for potentially a player to record them in real timeLet me come at it another way because i suspect we have a different language issue here (you and I). If i read your issue correctly you currently have some old storage media of music. You also have the ability to "play" (and listen) to that music because you have the necessary hardware that will play it. However you want to take that music and be able to put it on your computer then transcribe it to a a recorder (such as a modern CD burner ) that will produce a disc that can be played and listened to on current "players". But because the current audio format is not recognized by any modern day devices you cannot do that. Is this correct so far?If not correct where is it not correct? So believing that you do have the ability to play the current stored audio tracks that at least at the moment allows you to "listen"(hear) to them in their current file format. Then again i say play them /listen to them/and at the same time using a modern day audio recorder record them and then transcribe them to the computer HDD. From which you can then burn them to a CD after which you can play/listen to them on modern day cd players readily available.Have i defined your issue correctly and your objective? truenorth Quote from: truenorth on January 08, 2012, 12:46:04 PM Let me come at it another way because i suspect we have a different language issue here (you and I). If i read your issue correctly you currently have some old storage media of music. You also have the ability to "play" (and listen) to that music because you have the necessary hardware that will play it. However you want to take that music and be able to put it on your computer then transcribe it to a a recorder (such as a modern CD burner ) that will produce a disc that can be played and listened to on current "players". But because the current audio format is not recognized by any modern day devices you cannot do that. Is this correct so far?If not correct where is it not correct? So believing that you do have the ability to play the current stored audio tracks that at least at the moment allows you to "listen"(hear) to them in their current file format. Then again i say play them /listen to them/and at the same time using a modern day audio recorder record them and then transcribe them to the computer HDD. From which you can then burn them to a CD after which you can play/listen to them on modern day cd players readily available.Have i defined your issue correctly and your objective? truenorth I have the music that was backed up by the station to retrieve it. I didnt say that I could listen too it. I only have the sound card an disks that there on. Quote Thing is there AC2 format which doesnt exsist anymore AC2 is one of the old Dolby Digital formats. It came before AC3. You may need a special board to do the conversion. Best to consult an experienced (older!) broadcast or studio audio engineer. This may not be the place to find them. AH HA! So then your dilemma is to find something that WILL allow you to be able to play/listen/hear/record them. I have absolutely NO knowledge that would allow me to say that the solution is contained in the linked web site below. It is all gibberish to me but it does appear to deal with your issue . Whether there is an element of guidance for you i don't know. Maybe reading it will point you in a direction of possible ability to do what you desire. http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_MAKEDEV.htm good luck,truenorthI have the sound card, this is the thrid time I mentioned that I had. I just need to play them or have them converted via an app. Thats all dealing with some fourm of linux commands. The issue is I dont not what I need to do in order to get it to work with the sound card then if nothing else.From your post before your last one i DO understand what you have. My impression was that from the link if a linux O/S was available there was a possibility from within it to be able to "program" the linux O/S to recognize your SCSC card and access them. I cannot be sure that is what is being stated because as i said i am NOT knowledgeable regarding some of the technologies you are trying to USE. Unless you can find some old useable hardware capable of using your recorded media i don't see how you can accomplish what you want. truenorthSo something like knoppix or something should be able too load the card rightThere are several radio automation programs that used Dolby AC2 encoding in the early to mid '90s and have since gone to PCM WAV or MP3 format. One such software is supplied by ENCO, which offers a direct software conversion from Dolby AC2 to either newer format. See here: http://www.enco.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=3572&DisplayType=nested&setCookie=1 We have about 5600 of these "legacy" Dolby AC2 files in our station's library, which would take about a year for one person to "re-record" all of them, so that is not a viable solution. Problem is, the conversion software seems to be "closely held" and only made available to those who purchase the company's software. Our AS16xxxx sound cards can still read and decode the files to play them, but we cannot edit the "Cart" information files to modify the intro and fade trip points for the station. The files also will not manually "fade" in our poorly conceived Pristine software. We are seriously considering dumping Pristine for a BETTER solution (likely ENCO DAD or Presenter), so we may eventually have the conversion software to achieve what you are trying to do. Pristine stubbornly refuses to offer any conversion path, along with their other poor support habits. We ordered and paid for a custom genre library from Pristine over 18 months ago and haven't received it yet !! If we elect to go with ENCO, I will post here. I sent one of our Dolby AC2 encoded files to the sales rep at ENCO and they returned me an excellent quality PCM WAV file conversion. -- Spike out.... I'll look at it once, I get the chance Im stuck on dial up at the moment. This should still be a big help. Alot of the stuff that is gone that had most of the backups on it. We still have probably around a few hundred left. I also, want to use the SCSI Optical Drive for my old stuff. We still have all the cards that they used as well but, I dont know how to set it up on a machine. Let alone it has too be a very old copy of windows. Wait, so this isnt software that can convert these? Rather a company that would?

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I was asked to do this from another tech down at where I partially worked at. Thing is that they had backed up there music up to these SCSI Disks BASICALLY a flopped CD thats 3.5 I have the reader an everything cause, his seemed to have trouble. Any rate it was used with something called like the Wizard Audimation that was down there. Thing is there AC2 format which doesnt exsist anymore, I do have the sound card but, it uses IRQ's. Is there an app that will let me convert it out to like a wav or something?If you can play audible sound why not rerecord the sound with a modern device which you can then record to the computer's HDD? truenorththe codex is on the sound card. I am looking for potentially a player to record them in real timeLet me come at it another way because i suspect we have a different language issue here (you and I). If i read your issue correctly you currently have some old storage media of music. You also have the ability to "play" (and listen) to that music because you have the necessary hardware that will play it. However you want to take that music and be able to put it on your computer then transcribe it to a a recorder (such as a modern CD burner ) that will produce a disc that can be played and listened to on current "players". But because the current audio format is not recognized by any modern day devices you cannot do that. Is this correct so far?If not correct where is it not correct? So believing that you do have the ability to play the current stored audio tracks that at least at the moment allows you to "listen"(hear) to them in their current file format. Then again i say play them /listen to them/and at the same time using a modern day audio recorder record them and then transcribe them to the computer HDD. From which you can then burn them to a CD after which you can play/listen to them on modern day cd players readily available.Have i defined your issue correctly and your objective? truenorth Quote from: truenorth on January 08, 2012, 12:46:04 PM

Let me come at it another way because i suspect we have a different language issue here (you and I). If i read your issue correctly you currently have some old storage media of music. You also have the ability to "play" (and listen) to that music because you have the necessary hardware that will play it. However you want to take that music and be able to put it on your computer then transcribe it to a a recorder (such as a modern CD burner ) that will produce a disc that can be played and listened to on current "players". But because the current audio format is not recognized by any modern day devices you cannot do that. Is this correct so far?If not correct where is it not correct? So believing that you do have the ability to play the current stored audio tracks that at least at the moment allows you to "listen"(hear) to them in their current file format. Then again i say play them /listen to them/and at the same time using a modern day audio recorder record them and then transcribe them to the computer HDD. From which you can then burn them to a CD after which you can play/listen to them on modern day cd players readily available.Have i defined your issue correctly and your objective? truenorth

I have the music that was backed up by the station to retrieve it. I didnt say that I could listen too it. I only have the sound card an disks that there on. Quote

Thing is there AC2 format which doesnt exsist anymore

AC2 is one of the old Dolby Digital formats. It came before AC3. You may need a special board to do the conversion. Best to consult an experienced (older!) broadcast or studio audio engineer. This may not be the place to find them.

AH HA! So then your dilemma is to find something that WILL allow you to be able to play/listen/hear/record them. I have absolutely NO knowledge that would allow me to say that the solution is contained in the linked web site below. It is all gibberish to me but it does appear to deal with your issue . Whether there is an element of guidance for you i don't know. Maybe reading it will point you in a direction of possible ability to do what you desire.
http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_MAKEDEV.htm
good luck,truenorthI have the sound card, this is the thrid time I mentioned that I had. I just need to play them or have them converted via an app. Thats all dealing with some fourm of linux commands. The issue is I dont not what I need to do in order to get it to work with the sound card then if nothing else.From your post before your last one i DO understand what you have. My impression was that from the link if a linux O/S was available there was a possibility from within it to be able to "program" the linux O/S to recognize your SCSC card and access them. I cannot be sure that is what is being stated because as i said i am NOT knowledgeable regarding some of the technologies you are trying to USE. Unless you can find some old useable hardware capable of using your recorded media i don't see how you can accomplish what you want. truenorthSo something like knoppix or something should be able too load the card rightThere are several radio automation programs that used Dolby AC2 encoding in the early to mid '90s and have since gone to PCM WAV or MP3 format. One such software is supplied by ENCO, which offers a direct software conversion from Dolby AC2 to either newer format.

See here: http://www.enco.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=3572&DisplayType=nested&setCookie=1

We have about 5600 of these "legacy" Dolby AC2 files in our station's library, which would take about a year for one person to "re-record" all of them, so that is not a viable solution. Problem is, the conversion software seems to be "closely held" and only made available to those who purchase the company's software.

Our AS16xxxx sound cards can still read and decode the files to play them, but we cannot edit the "Cart" information files to modify the intro and fade trip points for the station. The files also will not manually "fade" in our poorly conceived Pristine software. We are seriously considering dumping Pristine for a BETTER solution (likely ENCO DAD or Presenter), so we may eventually have the conversion software to achieve what you are trying to do. Pristine stubbornly refuses to offer any conversion path, along with their other poor support habits. We ordered and paid for a custom genre library from Pristine over 18 months ago and haven't received it yet !!

If we elect to go with ENCO, I will post here. I sent one of our Dolby AC2 encoded files to the sales rep at ENCO and they returned me an excellent quality PCM WAV file conversion.

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Spike out....

I'll look at it once, I get the chance Im stuck on dial up at the moment.

This should still be a big help. Alot of the stuff that is gone that had most of the backups on it. We still have probably around a few
hundred left. I also, want to use the SCSI Optical Drive for my old stuff. We still have all the cards that they used as well but, I dont
know how to set it up on a machine. Let alone it has too be a very old copy of windows.

Wait, so this isnt software that can convert these? Rather a company that would?

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