Handy tip, thanks! ... View more

Just reporting back after a while of things running OK... So once again started to get the "cannot save xmp" error when trying to save a file. Then, not straight away, but today I have the same problem: An area selected in middle of one file "moves" itself back to the beginning of the file if I open another file in the files panel and then go back to the original file.   So... I looked at the applicationPrefs file to see if the afore-mentioned namespaces had reappered. No, not this time!   So that wasn't the problem before, just a "fluke" fix. Today, what worked was to replace my application prefs file with a default version (which i had the presence of mind to save after a clean install). That did the job, but still has me pondering the root cause of this phenomenon. A possibly related issue is that I seem to have difficulties with an external drive in that sometimes audition says the location is not accessible (when trying to save to a pre-defined path, i.e. the one from last save), but actually saves fine when i open the browser and point it to that location.  This seems to only occur when recording new material. Subsequent saves after edits are always fine. So, from now on I will try saving all newly recorded material to my main C drive and move it later.   I'm only burbling on here in case anyone has similar problems and finds my ramblings somehow useful! ... View more

Late to the party I know, but absolutely - a perfect solution, all you need do is hit "+", "-" in quick succession and the zoom level will remain the same. If you use an editing controller, simply program a macro to do the same, or if you really need one key to do it, use a program like autohotkey. ... View more

Thanks for the answer, you're confirming what I already knew really - although I would say in practice my results with mp3 have been entirely acceptable especially since nobody (or very few people) are looking for an audiophile experience when it comes to audiobooks. That said, it feels better to stick to convention and use lossless format all the way to final mastering, a standard I would never dream of deviating from when working with music production. I would hope, however that there would be no problem using flac rather than wav, just for a bit of space saving, my hard drives fill up pretty quickly! ... View more

Awesome! Just what I was looking for 🙂 ... View more

Same problem, Wacom Art Pen with PS 21.0.1   Advanced mode, etc all turned on in graphics settings.   Brush outline rotates when hovering, locks in position on starting stroke.   Can't believe I'm only the second person to notice this or be bothered by it! ... View more

Hi Steve, thanks for that...   I'm well aware of the ACX -60 noise floor requirements - this brings up an interesting observation, something I hadn't really noticed before - downsampling seems to bring up the noise floor:   Here's a bit of the sample as it was submitted to ACX (192kbps mp3) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-UQVZhYXvRMWbczYjrplrxKc5PRtcKLz/view?usp=sharing   Measuring the long gap just before the end, the noise floor on this is -59.94 / -60.21 (left and right channels)   The "original" sample in my opening post was downsampled to 64kbps (22050khz), which is something I do to "get an idea" how my masters will sound streaming on Audible. The same gap measured on this file comes out at around -55, it's still 16 bit, but presumably the lower sample rate and bitrate are bringing up the noise floor?   Then, the same gap in the recorded Audible stream of my file measures -44.3   If there has been no resampling by Audible, then this would mean that some form of compression/signal boost + limiting must have been added at some point.   As it happens, I also took a recording from the stream via Audible's mobile app to compare it with their browser-based stream. Interestingly, the noise floor of the same "gap" on that comes out around -50   I have pet theory that Audible are adding more signal boost to their browser-based app because they imagine the user to be listening through computer speakers, whereas a mobile listener is more likely using headphones! Probably not true though - I think actually it's a different process on the mobile app, rather than streaming it actually starts downloading the entire chapter to the device when you tap play, then after a little while says "ready to play", while it continues downloading in the background... this is likely to be an aax format download rather than .aa stream. Rather annoying I imagine for anyone who's concerned about storage space on their device.   Anyway, the upshot of all this is (referring to my 192kbps original submission): I am within the correct specificaton as regards noise floor. I could certainly reduce the noise floor to around -70 or so and see if that helps. The trouble is, I won't have a way of checking the results of that until my next production has been published. A very long-winded process of trial and error...   At the moment, I'm trying to track down what codecs and/or processes Audible use for their streaming platforms by emailing various people at Audible/ACX. If I knew this for sure, I could possibly adjust my mastering process accordingly. However I'm not holding my breath as I wouldn't be surprised if they regard this as "sensitive" information... plus I doubt if I'll ever get them to admit that they have a heirarchy of streaming quality for different titles!       ... View more

just thought of a description of the unwanted artifact... it's like "static" from a radio signal! ... View more

By the way, thanks Steve for the link - brilliant article - I've read it before but enjoyed a refresher!   The tale-tale sign over over-limiting I've noticed more an more over the years is that tracks just don't fade down like they used to... you turn the volume down but everything remains clearly audible until you hit zero, whereas it used to be that different frequencies/elements of the track would disappear at different levels. The vast majority of music I listen to is pre-1995 or so anyway!   What worries me a bit with Amazon music is that although they offer a download of the music, are they just giving a dowload of their "streaming" track which has been standardized to a pre-set LUFS level, even though it's "HD"? What with HD being more aimed at audiophiles I would hope this isn't the case, but I wouldn't be surprised!   I've experimented with some "quiter" tracks like acoustic music featuring just a couple of instruments and vocal and the dynamics are very good with an overall lower LUFS than, say, Led Zeppelin in full-on rock mode... so am hoping the audio is fairly unmolested on Amazon HD. ... View more

Thanks Steve. Back in the old days, if a friend had a nice album on vinyl or CD, I'd take a tape recording of it - setting the levels and bias to achieve the best, cleanest recording I could. In a way this is a similar idea but in the digital domain... and certainly I've no complaints audio quality wise in what I've recorded. The resulting recording goes into my Musicbee library in flac - my preferred library software app. As it happens, I did try an alternative method using my in-built Realtek sound device in Audacity. For that, I used audacity's loopback driver which is a direct full signal transfer and changing the playback volume in the amazon app has no effect. The resulting file was also showing clipping. However, as I said in my post this is not audible clipping, just "on paper" so to speak. I do have a Focusrite Forte which I use for voice-over work and I know it to be very tolerant of high signal levels, but I don't have a "what U hear" driver for that to my knowledge and besides I don't feel inclined to drag that out of my recording booth! I do have an ancient Edirol 2 channel inteface.. I could always give that a whirl, but again from memory there was no way to record the computer stream. In the end I'm quite happy with the reults and will continue adding to my flac music collection... Amazon are giving a 3 month free trial so it's happy days! 🙂 ... View more

Thanks, sound advice! What I'm really looking for is a pdf reader for tablet that allows me to change background and text colour, since adobe's mobile reader doesn't allow this in the way that the desktop app does. This was intended as a workaround if i could change the colours in the pdf itself, but point taken, and also having a background colour is not good for highlights (which i use a lot) since they dont show up on anything except a white background. ... View more

Thanks Bill, that works! What I was doing wrong it seems was changing the margins through File>Document Setup. Interestingly, when I follow your instructions, changing the margins via Layout>Margins and Columns, the old margin setting remains in File>Document Setup, and I get a grey line where that margin is defined. So it seems these are two different types of margins within the one document. ... View more

Hi, thanks again for your help. Now I get how it all works... They're a series of panels "glued" to the right-hand side of the workspace and can basically be detatched and closed, or opened then re-attached by clicking and dragging. Simple really! ... View more

Brilliant! Thanks very much, that makes sense now and worked a treat. ... View more

Thanks Uwe, I have added a comment on UserVoice.   **EDIT** and a vote of course!     ... View more

Thank you! I actually managed to figure it out... but I didn't know about not using numbers - I was actaully going along naming them 1, 2, 3, etc - so will try E1, E2, etc instead.   I'm going to mark this as a correct answer so hopefully it will help others - it's a clearer answer to the issue than other posts on here.   ... View more

Here's the thing though....   If I uncheck the Create Tagged PDF option, the hyperlinks don't work!   ... View more

I will definitely request that as a feature... thanks!   Right now I'm looking at manually back-linking the endnotes via a text anchor and hyperlink, but I have a major problem in actually defining a text anchor... the hyperlink panel gives the option to hyperlink to existing anchors, but I have no clue how to create one in the first place. Maybe this would be a subject for a separate post...    ... View more

Excellent point... at first I did use "interactive pdf" but that didn't seem to work. Then, when I tried "pdf print" export instead, I noticed it had the option for including hyperlinks and thought that was my problem, since that option doesn't show in the interactive pdf export panel. Mystery solved: the important factor is the "create tagged pdf" option, which appears in both the interactive and print export panels. So, my interactive pdf export panel looks like this:   ... View more