It does not currently support MP3 format, GigaVox CTO Doug Kaye doesn’t appear to have plans to ever support MP3 due to the inherent loss of quality when you decode and encode MP3 files. It will process Wave or AIFF files, both of which are uncompressed formats. Reading between the lines of a forum post by GigaVox Chief Technology Officer Doug Kaye, the next version of The Levelator will not require Java, and the website indicates that Linux will be supported in the near future. Windows users will need to ensure that they have Sun Java 5 (not the crummy version that comes with Windows CDs produced before mid-2003) installed, you can verify that you have the latest version of Java on Sun’s website. The Levelator is produced by GigaVox Media and is currently available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista & Mac OS 10.4 on Intel or PowerPC. There are a few reasons why you would want the volume to be consistent, basically people are used to television and radio where, for the most part, the volume is a “set and forget” routine, this is possible because audio on television and radio (and even to some extent music) has a relatively consistent volume, acheived through audio compression, as a result, people are used to consistent volumes, and are easily annoyed by having to adjust the volume during playback. This tool is excellent for podcasters, audio engineers, and anybody who produces audio for public consumption…in my case as a podcaster, I am constantly battling to produce audio with relatively consistent volumes…I do my best, but I’m only human, and the volume does vary a bit too much…that being said, I pay more attention to the quality of my audio than a lot of podcasters, so the variations in my podcast aren’t too noticeable. As the name suggests, it “levels out” the volume of the podcast, in much the same way that radio is compressed. The Levelator is an audio post-production application, still in development to some extent, but quite excellent. This week the series kicks off with The Levelator. Welcome to a new weekly feature on Samuel’s Blog, Samuel’s Download Of The Week. Samuel’s Download Of The Week: The Levelator 1by1 is a nice little application which fills a niche, and I’m happy to be able to recommend it. Whilst I think it is quite a good application, I do have some reservations about the interface, which is a tad cumbersome and you do have to rely on the tooltips to workout what some of the buttons do, but seeing as it is more or less a “start playback and minimise” application, the interface is only a minor setback.īasically it is a nifty little application (100KB) which I prefer over a lot of the larger, more mainstream, media players which are invariably bloated and quirky. Download of the week? Yep, I just missed a few weeks…Īnyway, my download of the week is a rather nifty little application called “1by1”.ġby1 is a handy little MP3 (and other formats) player which plays all the MP3 files in a folder, or with a touch of tweaking, a set of folders, I personally love its smart crossfading ability which rarely ever seems to get a crossfade wrong, as long as you don’t fiddle with the settings too much.
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