=remew05 Read me doc for audio input of Walia Collection, Walia Box W05 Steve Amdur, Campra, CH-6718 Olivone, Switzerland sa73122@yahoo.com www.geocities.com/sa73122 www.geocities.com/sa73122a www.geocities.com/sa73122b www.geocities.com/sa73122c Yahoo Briefcase: AdobetoZenith (Adobe , not Abode) Password: CarwashCharlie (case-sensitive) Primary Folder: PVsa0412 or something like that I might try to post some of the audio files to www.ourmedia.com if I can figure it out I am presently doing audio input under AUDACITY -- www.sourceforge.net At 44100 Hz, 32-bit, And saving in all 4 formats -- Audacity, WAV (Microsoft), MP3, and Ogg Vorbis (Ogg Vorbis is an opensource generic version of MP3, quality said to be similar, files are aboutr 2/3 the size. I'm entirely new to this field, so if anyone can suggest better parameters, please tell me. We do need to choose an "industry standard". ----------------------------------------------------------- Steve Amdur, Campra, CH-6718 Olivone, Switzerland 3 May '05 -- 24 NIsaN -- gvurah sh'b GVURaH -- 23 Rabi al awal A misty day at Campra, with the bushes bursting into leaf I hope all is well with all in the Abode__Zenith Family, and that everyone's work is going well, and that everyone is looking out that nobody is getting lost, and that all the bridges are maintained in passable condition. "I and my army are well." As you know, the 7 lower sfirot are, in descending order: Chesed, Gvurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malkut. So that gives a sequence of 49 combinations, descending from the day after the Passover Seder, to the day before the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Tradition says that the students of Rabbi Akiva died during the Omer period because they did not accord each other respect. There will be rooms to rent at Campra from 13 May. I take it as a priority to preserve all extant PVK teachings. A particular priority is to preserve all audio teachins in digital form. These must then be preserved as multiple complete collections in disperesed locations. The Zenith Master Tapes were first kept by Walia, but then most were taken by ZR to Suresnes. However, some Zenith Master tapes remained behind at Walia's house in Ligornetto. I have inventoried those, as of April '05, in =pvinvwa.txt I have started to input the PVK tapes in this Walia Collection. Most of those tapes are in boxes of 10 Masters to a box. This doc introduces my input of Walia Box 05 That Box is PVK 1990 Leaders' Week, Firt Half of the Week Only. That is 10 tapes, Pir1L 1990 through Pir10L 1990. This CS 13 holds the input of those tapes, but in Ogg Vorbis format only. Off Vorbis can be imported into AUDACITY, and can, I think, be played using WINAMP. I usually send out DVDRW's -- plus format I think -- but at the moment I'm out of both DVDs and money. I live on a fixed income of about $2200 a month, so anyone who lives on 10 times that or more is welcome to send me up to 10% of it; Accounting etc. available. I am inputting from a Phillips 2-cassette Shtetl-Blaser (a smaller less expensive and more decorous version of the Ghetto Blaster -- Afro-American ghettos, not ours) I make a copy of each Master than I input. I make the copy on a namebrand Type I. So far I have used TDK Type I, which have a bit more than 47 minutes per side. These are all 90-minute tapes, that is, 45 minutes per side. But namebrand, especially namebrand Type II, which were used almost without exception for the Zenith Masters, give you at least 47 minutes. Unfortnately, the Sound Desk often, and I think usually, recorded on those extra 2 minutes. That's unfortunate because many if not most of the customer copies at Zenith were made, at least when I made them, on El Cheapo tapes, which give you no more than 45 minutes per side. So the last 2 minutes of each side of each tape may be missing from the customer copies. So that means that the Masters become very important. As I say, when I input a Master I simultaneouly make a backup copy of the tape on a namebrand Type I, using the 2nd deck of the cassette-player or sounddeck. I then put away the Master. If I need an original for any reason, I use the G2, the copy that I just made, not the Master. I plan to return these Masters to ZR to take back to Suresnes, since I think Walia and Devi no longer have room to keep them. It would be be better to input from a 2-cassette tape-deck; the store in Olivone sells one for about SF 500. I have input Boxes 37, 10, 03, and now 05 from the Walia Collection. I give details of the contents of the 10 Tapes in Box 05 in documents =pvLz05L.txt and =pvLa05i.txt , both included on this CDRW, and to be posted to one of my Websites, most likely www.geocities.com/sa73122b I send out DVDs with copies of what I have input to the following: The Abode (att: D. Tide, hopefully to input on an Abode/SO computer and then to cc: to S. Gebel, USA National Secretary, who lives in those hills), to ZR at Suresnes (non-registered mail), to Aziz Dikeleous, and to Alev. I can send copies to others upon appropriate request. As far as I know, copyright to all PVK tapes has been claimed since they were first made by the SO. I make no claim to any material I have worked on. And now for the information you all have been waiting for: Who was Ogg Vorbis: Everyone knows from the Bible (DVaRIM Dvarim, Deuteronomy 3) that Ogg of Bashan was a giant who lived on the Golan Heights until the Israelis came, in the aftermath of a dispute over work conditions on a major construction project in the Nile Valley. So one Shabat at Moshav MeVOA MODI'IN my next-door neighbors the AvrahamHai's had a guest and Judy said, R. Shlomo Carlebach used to study with him, and Judy said, he told stories about Ogg of Bashan. As Judy told them to me, best's I recollect, they were: Ogg was on Noah's Ark, but he made a lot of noise stomping around the decks. Ogg befriend Sarah Imenu, our Foremother Sarah, and that is why he was rescued by Noah, because he was going to befriend her. So to this I add: Ogg was still in the land of Israel when it was occupied by the Romans. So the Romans took him to Rome. And in Rome everyone was afraid of him, because he was a giant. But they tried not to show it. And all the young guys would come up to sort of slap him on the back, if they could reach, and to say something like, "Hey Ogg, old buddy, Pax Vobiscum." But they were so scared that all they could say was "Ogg -- Vorbis__" ---------------------------------------------------------------- sa, Campra, 5 May '05 -- 24 NIsaN -- gvurah sh'b GVURaH 23 Rabi al awal -- mist on the snow-touched heights, bushes bursting into leaf ===============================================================