Well, using Audacity, I found silence at the end of the sample, and using Rubberband I found a small chunk of silence around 10ms in from the start of my sample. That was a wav which was reduced in time from around 3 seconds to 2.666 using cl. Would you like me to make the samples available? On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Chris Cannam wrote: > On 03/01/2008, J M Needham <J.M.Needham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The audacity time stretcher is great, rubberband is even better but they > > both put chunks of silence into the samples when I use them. > > Do you mean silence within the sample somewhere, or do you mean that > the duration of the resulting sample isn't exactly correct and so > there is silence at the end? > > The former would be very strange and quite wrong, particularly if it > happened with both Audacity (which uses SoundTouch) and Rubber Band, > as the two use completely different algorithms. Since both run the > stretcher offline, they also shouldn't depend on any realtime > processing constraints. > > The latter effect would be expected using Audacity, as SoundTouch > isn't sample-accurate, but it shouldn't happen when using the Rubber > Band command-line utility. > > > Chris > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user