Rocksalt playlist 2/3 (download available)

Playlist for 2/3/08:
Blood-n-fire - South of the City
Jeremy Camp - Take My Life
Candlefuse - Hungry
Catalyst - You Can't Please Everyone
Greg Chaisson - Too Late To Pray
Chalice - Victim of the Night
Charizma - The Knights
Chase - Have You Got Some Time
Chozen - Will You Be Ready
Chryztyne - For You
Collective Soul - Shine
Common Yet Forbidden - The Prodigal
Consecrator - Messiah Calls
Contagious - Turn
Conviction - Slow Down
Cornerstone - When I Get To Heaven
Cradle - Tombstone Leapfrog
Creation of Death - Purify Your Soul
Crashdog - Distorted View
Creed - Sign of Victory
Cronic - I Feel the Warmth
The Cross - The Cross
Crossection - River's Edge
Crosseyed - Forever
Crosswired - No Compromise
Crown of Mercy - The Fall
Valid - Battle Cry
Shining Force - Demon Hunter


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7PZZYNEA

Caught the bottom 1/4 of the show Michael. We were at a SS class Super Bowl Party (came home early to get the kids in bed).

Really liked The Cross and Valid.

What a great sound has " Too Late To Pray".

I was just comparing last week's file (which was done at a higher mp3 bitrate than I normally would have) and this week's ogg file and I think the OGG format has a lot less artifacts on material I know is recorded well. Even just me talking sounds much better. Is it just my ears?

I was playing around with more settings and I think last week's just wasn't done very well. I'm learning not to trust Audacity with it's mp3 export's in general. If I export to FLAC and then use Foobar to go to mp3, it sounds much better and I can get the filesize smaller at the same time.

I think the highly compressed VBR mp3 setting also reduces some of the brightness that the stream introduces so while OGG does a better job of reproducing what is heard at the settings I'm using, the mp3 sounds a little more natural so I'll go back to doing the double conversion for now.

Hopefully Audacity will get the external encoder support working soon so I can do it direct from there using the settings I want.

Here is the mp3 version. See what you think. It's 11 MB smaller!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7PZZYNEA

So I downloaded and listened to the first few songs from each one. Yes I do notice a marked improvement in sound for both (but that might be because I am listening to speakers instead of headphones).

For some reason the ogg format seemed a little stronger (if that makes any sense). But other than that I didn't notice a serious difference. Something I might be picky about if I had purchased an e-file of some music, but certainly nothing I would be even mildly upset over while listening to a broadcast.

Maybe your voice sounds better because you have gotten over you cold?

Oh, no. If you listen to last week's that was done at 64kbit CBR with whatever other settings Audacity uses, there are tons of very noticeable artifacts while I'm talking (and during songs) that you don't hear in either of this week's versions. It's clearly something in the settings Audactiy is using because I made another snippet from Audacity from this week's stream and it had the same effect.

I've only listened to the first half. Kinda thought it almost sounded like and 80's retro hair-metal show until Common Yet Forbidden started.

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Candlefuse - Hungry

Never heard of these guys, is all their stuff really hard rockin P&W/CCM or is this kind of a one-off type song?

The sound of the show of yesterday has a much better sound than the show of last week.

Candlefuse is basic modern rock.

Cool!! You are playing the new Shining Force song Demon Hunter... Can`t wait for the new album!!

Welcome, Dale, to our board!

alldatndensum wrote:

Welcome, Dale, to our board!

Thanks!!!

I think I will stop more!!

Fishingd, welcome to Christian Hard Music.

avdb11 wrote:

Fishingd, welcome to Christian Hard Music.

Thanks!! i like it here

We like it too here.