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[Geeky] Utility for automatically overlaying sounds on mp3s? i.e. - radio call sign
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| david.michael |
Maybe one of the COR geeks can help me out on this one.
I'm looking for a utility which will take an mp3 file, and combine it with another, automatically, at intervals.
So, a good example of this in practice would be to have an hour-long DJ set for a radio show, and I want a utility which will go through and "watermark" it with "you are listening to COR Love Sessions with Armin van Dykestodoorn" every 5 minutes.
Requirements:
- Must be command-line
- Must be Unix/Linux flavored
- Must be able to add in intervals (every X minutes)
Does such a utility exist? I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what to search for. |
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| jpisani |
| You won't want it to go every 5 minutes, you'll want to pick and chose where it goes, it might work @ the 5 minute mark, but at the 40 minute mark it might be an "important" part of the song. Just use acidpro or something like that to drop it when it fits. |
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| coroknight |
| You might want to just do this yourself. Since a program will not always pick a good place to overlay the audio. Also, doing it manually lets you control volume, etc. I don't think you would have to do this too many times. For my radio show we only have 4-5 overlays per 2 hours |
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| Tony Morello |
i agree with doing it yourself with a sequencing program
call signs only need to be 1 or 2 times per hour (i know by law the station call letters need to be played at least once an hour, i worked in radio for years)
obviously the more the better (long story, i'm going to get into the logistics of radio right now) but for a dj set, 2 per hour should suffice |
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| Lira |
Thread semi-hijack:
Is there a program that merges different mp3's on top of one another? It need not beatmatch the files or anything, I just want it to mix some background music on top of an audio book.
And I can't be arsed to do that manually to hundreds of files :p |
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| david.michael |
| The "call sign" thing was just an example, and is not what I'll actually be using this for. (I'm looking for a utility, not suggestions on how to handle the given example). That being said, does anyone know of such a utility? |
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| coroknight |
| The only way i can think of is to use a DAW of somesort. I know you could do it in ableton. However ableton is not command line so :confused: |
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| elFreak |
in the time you have already wasted looking for an answer, you could have already done it with a sequencer.:p
this to my knowledge does not exist. |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
in the time you have already wasted looking for an answer, you could have already done it with a sequencer.:p |
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| quote: | | The "call sign" thing was just an example, and is not what I'll actually be using this for. |
:)
I need something I can automate. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
I need something I can automate. |
Well, I know this sounds dumb (and, because I didn't understand what exactly you want, I'm going to work on the given example :p) but it may help you waste no more time:
What if you just added 7 minutes of silence to the sound you want to play? You could loop it endlessly in a different channel and you'd achieve the same result.
Then, you could just do some minor adjustments to do whatever it is that you're trying to do :conf: |
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