[Kzyxtalk] MOTA: Good Night Radio live from Franklin St. all night tonight! (and I reply to a question about audio editing)

[Marco McClean]

Subject: MOTA: Good Night Radio live from Franklin St. all night tonight!

Hi, there. Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's 
(Friday night's) MOTA show is about 5:30pm. Or send it whenever it's 
done and I'll read it on the radio next week. Text-only, in the body of 
an email, please; I'm on dialup today. Also I'll try to remember to 
check email sometime during the show, so if something occurs to you and 
you wanta squirt it in, that might actually work.

Plus you can call during the show and read your work in your own voice. 
I'll be in the clean, well-lighted back room of KNYO's storefront studio 
at 325 N. Franklin, where the number is 1-(707) 962-3022. If you swear 
like a sailor, please wait until after 10pm, or risk agitating the weasels.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via 
http://airtime.knyo.org:8040/128
(That's the regular link to listen to KNYO in real time.)

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night the recording of tonight's 
show will also be there.

Besides all that, there you'll find a whole crapload of valuable tips 
for living life to the full, to mull over until showtime, or any time, 
such as:

How to play the guitar intro to Crazy On You, with closeup video of the 
author's fingers.
https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2022/03/02/hearts-nancy-wilson-and-crazy-on-you-intro/

"A closeup of a clock on the wall. When the fire of the sun, that is 
like a ghost, falls to strike the heart of the center of the ground..." 
(A.I. poetically interprets photographs.)
https://rossgoodwin.com/narratedreality/

And an essay on how our inflated monkey brains read words at at all. (17 
min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/how-brain-processes-reading/

IN OTHER NEWS: knotsure at gmx.com wrote: "Audacity is spyware now, and all 
the alternatives I find listed are not available.  Darkaudacity, 
tenacity, sneedacity are all not available.  Not in ubuntu repositories 
and web sites don't work if they are there at all. So what are you using 
and where do I find it?"

I answered: I use CoolEdit for comprehensive editing and multitracking, 
CoolEdit Pro for when I need more than four tracks, MP3DirectCut for 
recording very long audio (it will run trouble-free in the background 
for days) and for fast simple edits (cut time, fade, all-file gain, 
auto-find-and-remove-silence; and all without decoding/re-encoding MP3), 
and I use Audacity when CoolEdit, being 25 years old, won't open a weird 
file, to open and save a file as something CoolEdit can open. I use 
Streambox Ripper to fast-convert between MP3 and WAV and change 
quality/bitrate/streaming-rate. (Streambox Ripper has a batch mode that 
can do whole folders of files at once and leave the originals 
unchanged.) And MP3Gain converts/copies whole folders of files to new 
folders of the same files but compressed upward (with look-ahead) for 
use at work or in the car, anywhere there's a lot of environment 
background noise to overcome.

All these things are available dozens of places by lsearching for /Old 
Versions of Audio Software/ (look for reputable vetting of any source 
you find), and with a little fiddling they all work well in all versions 
of Windows back through Win98, so you can use any old computer for your 
recording studio. (MP3DirectCut and the 1By1 folder player by the same 
maker (M. Pesch) work in Linux and Android too.)

Also maybe it's not Audacity that's your spyware problem but where 
you're getting it from.

--
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com