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Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:32:22 -0800

Sound junkies, I need your help: it's a two-parter. 1. Can anyone recommend a good, (preferably) open source cue cutter?

2. What's the best freeware available for converting .tta files to .mp3 or .wav?

Where can I get my pool cue retipped in Boston?

swerve — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:53:57 -0800

Where can I get my pool cue retipped in Boston? I need a new tip put on my cue. When I played in tournaments, I either retipped it myself (with a borrowed Willard's tipper) or had it done by a pro with a lathe. I am not comfortable dropping it off at Boston Billiards or similar. I'm looking for someone who knows what he (or she) is doing. I'm in the city but can travel into the burbs if necessary. Thanks!

What is the diameter and taper of the butt section of a pool cue?

BeaverTerror — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:28:29 -0800

What is the diameter and taper of the butt section of a pool cue? I'm detailing a custom pool cue stand at work and I need to know the correct width of the slot in the stand such that the cue will be suspended as pictured here:

http://mocoloco.com/archives/o8o_pt2_cue_stand_nov_04.jpg

Thanks.

Theatre Sound Cue Software?

Alabaster — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:20:49 -0800

Media Player / DJ / Theatre Sound Cueing software which allows looping a segment of the file indefinitely and then continuing playback? Details inside... I'm creating musical backing tracks for a theatre production. I need to "vamp" certain sections -- that is, loop a small portion of the track until the actors are ready to move on, and then continue playback. Can anyone recommend a fairly simple, stable program which:

-Plays wav/mp3 files
-Allows looping of small segments of the file (not the entire file) indefinitely, and then continuing on with a hotkey or some other trigger
-Allows multiple loop-points within the playback
-Preferably, has playlist capability

I have seen some dedicated programs for theatre sound cueing, but they tend to be more involved/expensive than I need (this will be installed on a low-budget community theatre PC and I would like it to be simple enough that once I set up the cues, the performance could be run by a monkey). MIDI Maestro looks like it does what I need, except I'll be looping AUDIO files, not MIDI data.

A simple winamp-style mp3 jukebox with segment-looping capability would be idea. Free or cheap is best.

Any ideas?

How does Google Video let you jump to any part of a video?

ssmith — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:23:24 -0800

How does Google/YouTube manage to allow a user to jump to any part of a video without having it preloaded first? Is it the player they use or maybe how the video file is hosted? I've got a client with a fairly standard 4-minute demo video they want to put up on their site. They'd like to be able to let a user click on some tabs across the top to jump to various sections. I've got this all working as long as the video has already finished preloading past that point in the video.

I'm not really sure how much it will help, but here's a link to the project.

I'd love to be able to have the same ability that, say, Google video uses where you can link directly to a specific point in the video without needing to have the video preloaded up to that point.

Is there a tutorial or some other resource out there with a good explanation of how to do this?

how can I convert monolithic flac or ape disc images into tracks?

Grod — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:01:35 -0800

I'm fed up with monolithic flac and ape files with cue sheets that winamp can't use. I like 1 track to 1 file. Is there no relatively automatic way to split these files into individual, per track, files? It goes without saying, I hope, that the individual lossless files produced would be conveniently labeled (e.g. composer-work-movement) and properly tagged. Thanks.

What are good examples of sound used as a cue in cinematic history?

Lockeownzj00 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:56:49 -0800

What are good examples of sound used as a cue in cinematic history? I'm looking for specific (ideally well-known) scenes and moments in movies that really accentuate the niceties that can be achieved with sound.

For example, some scene involving a woman walking down a hallway in high heels, their click-clacking reverberating throughout its empty halls menacingly (that scene from The Godfather is a tad similar to this).

Again, looking for relatively well-known and immediately recognisable examples.

How do I burn copies of an audio CD with a .cue file on OS 10.4.8 using either Burn or Firestarter?

jack_mo — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:26:46 -0800

How do I burn copies of an audio CD with a .cue file on OS 10.4.8 using either Burn or Firestarter? I've downloaded a losslessly compressed copy of a music CD, and decoded the .flac files to .wav.

Now I want to burn an audio CD using the supplied .cue file. I've got Burn and FireStarter, the only two free applications I could find that seem to support doing this, but neither have any documentation that I could find.

I've tried everything I can think of - my best guess seemed to be using Firestarter to turn my folder of .wav files into a .bin image, then trying to burn a CD using that .bin and the .cue supplied, but it doesn't work, it just says 'error: illegal'. Burn is more cryptic still - it just fails silently if I give it the .cue file.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this? Am I misunderstanding what a .cue file is for?

What is the best pool cue I can get for under 100 dollars?

petah — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:43:09 -0800

What is the best pool cue I can get for under 100 dollars? Where is the best place online to get one? I'm thinking about getting one for a friend.

Cue sheet generation

ObscureReferenceMan — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:17:33 -0800

I'm looking for a way to generate bike "cue sheets". Currently I'm doing this by hand, either with a hard copy of map, or using Mapquest and a ruler. Not very exact, but close. It also takes a looong time. I'm hoping there's some kind of software (preferably on-line) that would 1) be more accurate, and 2) allow for semi-interactive "tweeking". Meaning I could, say, change a "leg" of the route without having to re-calculate all subsequent points. I don't necessarily need special software to print - MS Word seems to do that fine. Just creation and modification/tweeking. I hope I'm getting my meaning across.

BikeThisWay.com is nice, but it's more of a clearing house of existing routes. (Plus, I just checked it recently, and seems to be having problems.)

A search resulted in this AskMe thread which came close to the question, but still not quite on the nose. Thanks!

How do I normalize wavs using a CUE file before burning to CDR?

PinkStainlessTail — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:02:36 -0800

I've got a bunch of wavs. I've got a CUE file that references said wavs. Is there a program that will take that CUE sheet and normalize the volume across all tracks before I burn them to a cdr? Nero can supposedly do it as part of the burn process, but I'd rather not waste the disc if I don't like the results. I could use a rewriteable disc I suppose, but I'm curious about finding a better way.