What's with this choppy audio?

[BPatubo]

I've been having a lot of trouble with audio that I record that ends up choppy when I listen to it later.

http://www.dormd.net/podcast/audio/misc/choppy.mp3

I'm conferencing using Skype with up to 5 other people. I'm using an iBook G4 running WireTap Pro to record both Mac audio (out) and my mic (in).

Any ideas on how I can prevent this from happening in the future (or why it's happening in the first place), or any ideas on any simple way to edit it the way it is?

[kickasspodcast]

You may have other problems... but everyone has issues with skype. The more people, the more I see it messing up.


Jack

[Big Mike]

Crazy. Don't know what that can be. It almost sounds like a soundfile on forward cue or something.

If it were me, I'd go in and toss my preferences to the Wiretap Pro and Skype. Then relaunch with a new session and see if it'll do it again.

[ovation]

Is it happening to the file "After" you've uploaded?

If so, check to make sure you did a "Binary" transfer and not ASCII"

That'll make it skip.

[BPatubo]

It doesn't happen after I upload. I play the raw recording from WireTap Pro and that's how it is. It's not consistent through the audio though, just in some parts.

And I thought I would also add that sometimes when speaking live, we hear each other fine, but then when I play the raw recording, there's a bit of a delay or often enough, our voices merge together so the question and response are heard at the same time...

There were a few reasons I thought of for why it might be happening, maybe someone else can shed some light:
- too many people on the Skype conference
- too slow of a machine to host the conference and keep a consistent recording (1.07 GHz with 256 MB RAM... does that even matter?)
- poor Internet connection? downstream: ~251 Kb/s, upstream: ~129 Kb/s

[Chuck_Justice]

I'm experiencing something similar (although to a much lesser degree, the audio "skips" about every 5-10 seconds) on certain podcasts i download to listen to... a few episodes of "Barefoot Radio", and "The Signal" and a few of the "Tipsy Chicks" podcasts have been doing it. Any insight as to why would be appreciated.


Chuck Justice