Record Broadcast Quality Audio on Your Mobile Devices

HiFiCorder.com has a free and a paid version ($5 for the paid version) that will allow you to choose up to 44,100MHz sampling (that is broadcast-quality) in your recordings. It can be installed on an Android phone or tablet or an iPhone or iPad. http://hificorder.com/ When it's selected you get a nice big red button to push and the recording starts. Also RecForge free audio recorder software - only for Android GooglePlay (PlayStore). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dje073.android.audiorecorderlite&hl=en RecForge can show you the wave form after it's recorded and let you choose the playback speed. Richard Vickery has tried both of them. Try them out and see what you think.

Audio reference samples online

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2010/10/hearing-loss-test/

This is not only a hearing test, I think it would be a useful reference for helping you determine the frequency of a background noise you mahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gify be trying to Equalize out.

If you take the test, you may realize that other people could be hearing noises you don't (or vice versa).

Planning Interview Times Across Time Zones

If you are interviewing someone in another country or time zone for World Radio Day, you'll have to figure out reasonable times for both of you. This web site, the World Clock Meeting Planner, can be very helpful.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

The pull-down menus for location have some country names and after that major city names (some countries have more than one time zone). Choose for each location and click.

CJSF on Telus HD TV

You can listen to CJSF through your TV if you have Telus HD TV. We're on channel 3706.

Convert audio and video between formats

Free software: Format Factory: http://www.formatoz.com/

This will allow you to do batch conversions - even of a collection of audio in different formats, all to a single format. (Thanks to Magnus for the tip.)

Investigative Reporter Manual

http://www.storybasedinquiry.com/?mid=53 You can download the Storybased Inquiry Benchmark Investigation Manual (Free!). Let me know what you think.

Ripping audio from videos

'Easy YouTube Video Downloader' for firefox seems to work for ripping audio from online videos. There's 96 kbps and 128 kbps mp3 settings. You can get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/ Here are other utilities that have been suggested: If the video you want to rip is on YouTube or hosted on the YouTube server, Julie Ngo suggests http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ She says the audio quality is better on this one than on some of the other rippers. I was able to use it onc

Here's one that works with Vimeo online video: http://www.convertfiles.com/