If you’ve been following our humble church for some time, you may have realized that we’ve been a little slow lately in updating the mp3s from the our weekly sermons, specifically from the services on November 12th and 19th - which were the first two in our four-week series in Romans 8:28-30. The reason is that somewhere between saving the file and converting it to mp3 (we use Audacity) the files are inexplicably lost. We are doing whatever we can to fix this problem…unfortunately, it would seem that those two sermons - which I am obliged to say were the two finest sermons ever given - are lost to us forever.
Hopefully we’ve got the gremlins licked now and can get back to sharing with you a part of the ministry at Oikos.
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We may need to invest in a mac.
tru dat
I feel your pain. When I was trying to move our church’s recording from the archane low quality and annoyingness of recording to tape and them re-importing to a computer, I had the challenge of finding something super stable and as close to free as possible (we’re a small congregation with a very low budget).
While I would have loved to get a mac, we just didn’t have the budget. Also, additional software (like protools LE) would have likely been necessary to allow us to easily mark sections and break it up into tracks for export since Garage band simply doesn’t have marker functionality, plus it only allows exporting to compressed formats (not wav or aiff).
We ended up resurrecting an old Klunker PC and installing windows 98 along with Protools Free (an 8 track limited copy of version 5.0). Windows 98 isn’t 100% stable, but Protools 5.0 is, and it hasn’t failed on us yet since early this year.
We then wrote a python script along with some other stuff to convert it to an mp3 and burn everything with notes to a CD for backup automagically. Like I said, it’s rather old fashioned and it has an old ugly feel to it, but it has worked well, and it was basically free.
Let me know if you’d like some additional info on how we put it together, and good luck.