shfr26 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Did some tweaking the other day and changed the audio to WAV, it now seems that those sequences take a lot longer to load than the MP3 ones. So I am assuming, and we all know what that does, that it would be better to change them back to MP3 format for the show. So WAV for sequencing and MP3 for the show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 shfr26 wrote: Did some tweaking the other day and changed the audio to WAV, it now seems that those sequences take a lot longer to load than the MP3 ones. So I am assuming, and we all know what that does, that it would be better to change them back to MP3 format for the show. So WAV for sequencing and MP3 for the show?Pete I use a little of both (only because I was too lazy to change them all to a wav file) and I haven't had any trouble (crossing my fingers and knocking on wood right now) so I have no idea why it would load slow for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Thinking it has to do with the compression of the file. Don't know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultamitking73 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I have seen that to some of the stuff i see is wav form some is mp3 let me know if it really does make a difference please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 shfr26 wrote: Thinking it has to do with the compression of the file. Don't know for sure.When you say it loads slow what exactly do you mean? does your show not run smoothly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Will be changing the WAV to MP3 for tonights show, will let you know if that is the problem. I hope so! Never had this problem before I changed them. I think either bobo of jbullard said Wav for sequencing and then change back to MP3 for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Don Gillespie wrote: shfr26 wrote: Thinking it has to do with the compression of the file. Don't know for sure.When you say it loads slow what exactly do you mean? does your show not run smoothly?After a MP3 song plays and a WAV song is next, there is a 4-7 second delay. From WAV to MP3 or MP3 to MP3, there is only about a 1 second delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullard Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 shfr26 wrote: Will be changing the WAV to MP3 for tonights show, will let you know if that is the problem. I hope so! Never had this problem before I changed them. I think either bobo of jbullard said Wav for sequencing and then change back to MP3 for the show.Yes, I said that. But I use the MP3 Director to run my shows so I have to. If I was using the computer, I would select the "Preload option" and still leave everything as WAV.A MP3 is a highly compressed file format, where the WAV is not.Just look at the difference in file sizes for the same song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Will try that for tonight, thank you sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhitePlainsNY Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I use a mix of mp3 and wav files. Last year I had to preload and it took several minutes. I'm taking advantage of the compressed files files since they load lightning quick and I don't have to preload. That made it a lot easier to start the show at the right time without having to back it off for the preload to finish.Back to your question - I haven't noticed any difference between the file type taking any longer than the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Call me Stupid! Last night I did the preload thing, no difference, this A.M., changed from WAV back to MP3, no difference. So what was the problem?? It was the 5 or 6 seconds of dead time at the end of the song causing the delay. Cut total time of sequence down and it works fine. Note to self "check the obvious first". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullard Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Glad you found the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 shfr26 wrote:Call me Stupid! Last night I did the preload thing, no difference, this A.M., changed from WAV back to MP3, no difference. So what was the problem?? It was the 5 or 6 seconds of dead time at the end of the song causing the delay. Cut total time of sequence down and it works fine. Note to self "check the obvious first".Pete if I remember correctly last year there was a thread about dumb and dumber and if memory serves me I believe you and I were the president and vice president of this prestigious club glad you are keeping it alive and well it shouldn't be long before I join you for a quick meeting Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shfr26 Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Don Gillespie wrote: shfr26 wrote:Call me Stupid! Last night I did the preload thing, no difference, this A.M., changed from WAV back to MP3, no difference. So what was the problem?? It was the 5 or 6 seconds of dead time at the end of the song causing the delay. Cut total time of sequence down and it works fine. Note to self "check the obvious first".Pete if I remember correctly last year there was a thread about dumb and dumber and if memory serves me I believe you and I were the president and vice president of this prestigious club glad you are keeping it alive and well it shouldn't be long before I join you for a quick meeting LolCan we have Jim for our secretary? Never mind, he would just fall over all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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