Shutters Inc

The world's best-loved photography podcast

Bruce Williams

I have been a professional audio engineer since the mid 80's and am happy to do for free in my spare time what I get paid to do during the week. I created Shutters Inc in May 2005, and it is today (as best as I can tell) THE longest-running photography podcast in the world.

2 thoughts on “Not again…”

  • BOMAR
    November 12, 2009 at 0:35
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    Hey Bruce

    Before you completely switch to photography and forget about us audio freaks I just wanted to chime in and ask (if it has not been covered before) the best way to prepare and add art work and metadata so that whenever the song is played the artwork is displayed properly and how to avoid pifalls such as the chipmunk effect (never encoding above 44100 and etc)

    Second topic

    You may be interested in the way sound looks in real life more specifically a technique used to photograph shockwaves

    http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/high-speed-imaging-of-shock-waves-explosions-and-gunshots/1

    well that is it, if the artwork and metadata has been covered before could you please tell me what number on BTP or SL?

    keep up te art!
    bomar

  • Bruce WilliamsPost author
    November 12, 2009 at 6:22
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    Bomar,
    Don’t worry, I ain’t leavin’ yet!! 🙂
    As for artwork and metadata being displayed on playback, that depends a lot on what software you use for playback. I use Media Monkey, which can alter it’s artwork display state between “current selection” or “now playing”.
    But maybe that’s a story for another day.
    In terms of ADDING the artwork, iToons will allow you to browse for an image, as will Media Monkey, and I’d imagine so would most other media players.
    As for editing the metadata, again, any decent media management utility (iToons, MM, etc) should give you access to the various fields.
    The thing I like about Media Monkey is that you can select a whole bunch of files and aplpy the same field of metadata to all of those files in one go.
    There’s not a lot you can’t do in Media Monkey when it comes to ID3 tag editing, but when you need to do something MM CAN’T handle, that’s when you reach for the Swiss Army Knife of ID3 tag editors… the little-known, totally-indispenbile MP3 Tag Studio.
    What MP3TS can’t do with an ID3 tag ain’t worth doin’. 🙂
    It’s awesome.
    It’s freeware (with a banner graphic), but for US$19, you get a license which will give you lifetime upgrades. Best twenty bucks I EVER spent. Bar none.
    Will do my best to include this topic in the next ep of Sine Language.
    Cheers.

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