Jon;680884 Wrote: > Glad I stumbled on this thread! I just started experimenting with vinyl > ripping this past week, using Audacity for the ripping/click > removal/track breakdown and a trial version of Jaikoz Audio Tagger for > the automatic track identification. It looks like VinylStudio will make > the process much simpler (Audacity does much more than I need and as > such, is hard to figure out). I was able to successfully rip and tag an > album with Audacity/Jaikoz, but feel like I still have much to learn if > I am to do this with Audacity. > > While Jaikoz' ability to identify tracks from the actual audio > fingerprint (via Musicbrainz) is pretty impressive, based on my cursory > review of their website it seems that VinylStudio's approach (type in > the artist and album name, if I am understanding it right) is more > practical. I am a bit lazy and time-poor, so I needed a bit of software that does as much as possible of the work for me and takes as little time as possible.
I have tried a few solutions, but VinylStudio is by far the quickest and easiest of those I have tried, mainly because it is set up specifically for recording Vinyl rather than trying to be all things to all men like Audacity. My particular workflow is roughly as follows: Start the software and initiate a new recording. This involves entering the artist and album names. Start the recording. While it is recording you can use VS to download track names and album art. At the end of the recording you can tweak the track breaks - which is usually necessary. It will then save the tracks as FLAC, MP3 or WAV files to your music library. It will use the track "tags" to create folder names which means I don't even need to create a directory into which the music files will go - it does that automatically. Er... that's it. There is a lot more to the software if you have the time and want to reduce background noise, clicks and pops. I prefer not to fiddle with this unless there are just a few major clicks which the software allows you to remove manually. I don't use any noise filters as I find it dulls the sound (even to my dull old tinitus ridden ears). If I don't do any "post processing" of the recording, other than shifting track breaks around, the whole process takes about 10 - 15 minutes on top of the recording time. Can I strongly suggest you install and try their fully functioning trial? Because of all the functions it packs in, it takes a disc or two to get the hang of the process. I bought it after just one disc as it was patently much less bother than any other software I had tried. Good luck! -- TheLastMan Matt http://www.last.fm/user/MJL-UK *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology DS107+ (500GB) NAS running LMS 7.7.0 on SSODSmod 4.14 *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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87289 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
