1 SpecWeb Web Interface and Command Line Stereo to Surround Converter Version 1.3 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Requirements .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 What’s New In This Version ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Known Issues .............................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Installation: ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Quickstart.................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Going a Little Deeper ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Live Playback ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Album Conversion Workflow ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 A Note about Sample Rates .................................................................................................................................................. 22 Workflow .............................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Using EAC to Rip Songs and Create Cue Files ........................................................................................................................ 20 Starting with individual or album length files ....................................................................................................................... 21 How To Win With ArcTan (a mini guide from a contributor)..................................................................................................... 22 ArcTan Controls ......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 During Playback .................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Command Line ...................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Ini File .................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Width Controls (and Speaker Angles) ................................................................................................................................... 25 Adjacent Speaker and Blend Controls ................................................................................................................................... 28 Slice Controls ............................................................................................................................................................................. 29 During Playback .................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Command Line ...................................................................................................................................................................... 29 INI File Options ...................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Stage Humidity Controls ....................................................................................................................................................... 30 LFE ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 During Playback .................................................................................................................................................................... 31 2 LFE Command Line Options .................................................................................................................................................. 31 LFE INI File Options ............................................................................................................................................................... 32 ZAutomatic Gain Controls (Zag) ................................................................................................................................................ 33 Zag Command line Options ................................................................................................................................................... 34 Zag INI Options ...................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Misc. Controls ........................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Command line ....................................................................................................................................................................... 36 INI File Controls ..................................................................................................................................................................... 36 INI Files ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Making a Cue File, for SpecWeb, using ImgBurn ...................................................................................................................... 37 Using Audiomuxer to Join Tracks and Make Monos for Encoding ............................................................................................ 39 Stereo to 5.1 “On The Fly” ........................................................................................................................................................ 46 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Methods ................................................................................................................................................................................ 46 Software Stereo Sources with Two Audio Cards ................................................................................................................... 46 Using a “Virtual” Audio Device ............................................................................................................................................. 47 Syncing Video to SpecWeb Audio ......................................................................................................................................... 51 SpecWeb as a converter for foobar2000 (foobar v1.1.11 or higher) ........................................................................................ 53 Converting from stereo directly to a six channel flac file ....................................................................................................... 53 Converting from stereo directly to six mono files .................................................................................................................. 60 Using the foobar converter to play back via SpecWeb ......................................................................................................... 62 Windows Command Window (cmd) Tricks and Tips ................................................................................................................. 65 1. Open the Command Prompt From Any Location ............................................................................................................. 65 2. Drag and Drop For Easy Path Name Entry......................................................................................................................... 65 3. Quick Edit Mode ................................................................................................................................................................ 66 4. Cut and Paste on the Edit menu........................................................................................................................................ 68