mrpon wrote:I did this after last Xmas. Best present my wife has ever bought me btw, but by god it was a pain in the tits. The shitey software that came with it couldn't recognise all the gaps between songs or made gaps where there was just a short pause. I then had to try to edit them in iTunes, since that was all it would export it to. I did a lot of swearing and it took a loong time, but by god it was worth it. Sadly, her ploy to get me to bin my vinyl as I would have it all on mp3 led to me buying more vinyl, since I had something to play it on again and archive it all.  N.B. She had previously tried giving away my scabby old stacking stereo without me knowing. |
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Vortex808 15,603 posts
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mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDon't get me wrong, I love a good dabble. Perhaps one for when I'm retired!
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chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMy wife decided to rip all our CDs once. So for a couple of weeks, whatever she was doing, there was a stack of CDs and a laptop ripping away. Personally I would never have been bothered. But now that it's done, cool!
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Vortex808 15,603 posts
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Registered 13 years agoApologies for the double post!
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Vortex808 15,603 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI actually binned my cassettes. It pained me a lot, but I seemed to have less of connection to them, unlike my vinyl which I really struggle to part with. If only I'd known USB tape players would be invented!
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oceanmotion 17,358 posts
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mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoMy (retarded) thinking is that one day I might want to listen to that rare Man From Delmonte live bootleg. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI had a similar thing with my tapes. When I looked through them, I realised the majority of them were trash that I was no longer invested in.
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rtk79 510 posts
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Registered 15 years agogenerica wrote:
Of course you can. The Sansa and Cowon portable players (ah !) all support FLAC natively, along many others.
You can't play lossless on an 'MP3' player. It's in the name.
Also : surprised noone's mentionned Foobar 2000. It's amazing, it's free, it'll do anything you like.
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DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoVortex808 wrote:
I think that was her plan. She keeps talking about all the "old records and Edge magazines" in the loft, so I'm expecting some kit to turn paper into shoes or something this year.
Sadly, her ploy to get me to bin my vinyl as I would have it all on mp3 led to me buying more vinyl, since I had something to play it on again and archive it all.
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oceanmotion 17,358 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSo you really have to connect to the fucking internet when ripping a CD because the tracks are identified as unknown. Are the tags and art not on the bloody CD. Perhaps WMP being shit, is that the reason ? -
Weebleboy 400 posts
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Registered 16 years agoVery few CDs have the track info on them (hsung CD-Text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text) so yeah, you need to be online for the info to be retrieved.
I believe you can get utils that can look up the info from the MP3 itself (presumably they ID it from the audio in the same way that Shazam etc. work) but I've never tried them. -
oceanmotion 17,358 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, I've seen the look up, just thought it be nice to have spot on tags from the source. Saves me checking if they match as well. Thanks. -
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Registered 17 years agooceanmotion wrote:
For a very brief period there was such a thing as mixed-media music CD albums that had art and some other crap on them as well as the 44.1 KHz 16bit audio samples.
So you really have to connect to the fucking internet when ripping a CD because the tracks are identified as unknown. Are the tags and art not on the bloody CD. Perhaps WMP being shit, is that the reason ?
But no-one could give a shit as most people didn't stick a CD on their IBM compatible personal computer (as this is what they were called back in 1993) to play music (due to shitty sound output and the high cost of an IBM compatible personal computer at that time) so they didn't really last very long.
They went to the same place that albums on C60 with a blank B side so you could record your own music on and video disks went to.
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oceanmotion 17,358 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNot surprising and I doubt they like people ripping either.
On another note, Zune software is still superb. Up comes the artist, art etc. at the CD rip screen. Now we are stuck with the abomination that is Xbox Music. WMP is better than Xbox Music. -
I am currently undertaking this project myself. I am using mediamonkey combined with a networked media streamer. The whole thing is going surprisingly well. When you have over 1500 CDs it's quite a chore but it needs to be done. Through this process I just today discovered a whole stack of Trojan box sets that I'd forgotten about. So it's been worthwhile!
Mediamonkey has a rather funky part of the program where you can auto-tag from the web, all it seems to need is the album name and it'll track it down, also it'll put the cover art in the folder too. Rather swish. First time in a long time I have felt like paying for a piece of software (just to thank them for being awesome) that does what I need for free.
Oh and it's all going to flac. Fuck your mp3 shit.
Edited by Mr_Sleep at 18:09:17 21-11-2012
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