cliveb;565400 Wrote: > Make no mistake, digitising LPs and making a good job of it takes time > and effort. Unless the album is unavailable on CD, or the CD version is > compromised in some way, digitising the LP is daft. (Unless you're weird > like me and actually *enjoy* the process, as a hobby). Remembering our previous conversations Clive, you are a *lot* more diligent about "cleaning up" your files than me.
I am quite happy to put up with the odd click and pop when listening to the LP, so have no objection when hearing them on the FLAC. Generally surface noise is only really audible over headphones in a quiet environment. Playing via the iPod on the tube or over the car stereo at 70mph on the M4 with three children under 9 in the rear seats, surface noise is the least noisy thing getting between me and the music! In fact even listening at volume over the living room stereo surface noise is not really an issue for 90% of recordings. If you use the most user-friendly and automatic tools available (and do not try and edit out surface noise) it is quite possible to keep the processing time for LP -> FLAC down to 20 minutes. Once I worked out how to permanently set the codes with Tag&Rename to extract the tag data put into the file name by SpinItAgain, the whole tagging can take less than 2 minutes. Similarly dBpoweramp can use tags to generate folder names and paths, and once coded they stick too. So the encoding to FLAC is right click, convert, go. With a reasonably modern PC the file encoding is a matter of a minute or two. *'SpinItAgain' (http://www.acoustica.com/spinitagain/)* really is a wonder, I cannot recommend it too highly. If I have a gripe, it is that the only lossless codec it supports is WAV, which cannot take tags. It therefore adds another step into the process that could be avoided. -- TheLastMan Matt *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology Diskstation 107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157) running Squeezebox Server 7.5.0 on Synology Package Manager *Network:* Netgear DG834GT ADSL modem/router, 2 x Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as access points *Livingroom:* Receiver into Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver into Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers *Study:* Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/Headline. LPs ripped usingBehringer UCA202 USB into Windows XP PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80811 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
