On Dec 5, 2014 8:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Could be legit. I wonder if rubber cement would work or if the solvent
would eat the record. Maybe liquid latex? Its pretty benign stuff.
This cat says wood glue, I've heard that before also:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Not that I know, but then again, I buy enterprise grade drives for my
RAIDs. I guess the consumer grade stuff could be wonky like that.
Enterprise grade fails too, but shipping mixes them up so customers
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
For what it's worth, Sansa portable audio players, and BlackBerry phones
are able to play FLAC files.
(Another excellent reason to ditch Android and Apple).
I've played FLAC on Android. I normally use MX
It may be fake, but I recall a CSI episode where elmers glue was used on a rare
jazz record to clean it up. Spread it along the grooves to make a thin skin,
which goes deep into the groove and grabs all the kruft. Once dry, just peal
it up and the recording is like new. OR just hollywood
, December 5, 2014 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Transcoding LPs to Digital
It may be fake, but I recall a CSI episode where elmers glue was used on a rare
jazz record to clean it up. Spread it along the grooves to make a thin skin,
which goes deep into the groove and grabs all the kruft. Once dry
If you want to store the files on a hard drive, and never need to
make a cd or dvd, (or mp3 player) wouldn't it be possible to save the
file as a .wav analog file and play that on demand? Or is the .wav
way to big to do this?
It seems to me that other than file size, the .wav might be the
Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote:
If you want to store the files on a hard drive, and never need to make a
cd or dvd, (or mp3 player) wouldn't it be possible to save the file as a
.wav analog file and play that on demand? Or is the .wav way to big to
do this?
If you want to get rid of the
Put them on a RAID.
Dan who backs up backups
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On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
If you want to get rid of the LPs, you don't want to put it on ONE hard drive.
Nor do you want to put it on two hard drives which were made on
or 3 raids, each in a different state. A single raid can be taken
out when the controller fails.
But, you didn't answer my questions about archiving and file size.
Put them on a RAID.
Dan who backs up backups
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On Dec 4, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
I can remember when I was somewhat of an audiophile that one could still prefer
vinyl over a CD played via a Mark Levinson ($25K) CD player, so I can't relate
to the interest(s) in converting to digital files. Other than live
performances, I prefer good recordings played back via good
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Put them on a RAID.
Any truth to the stories of people buying a pair of matching disks, configuring
them in RAID 1, and having them both die within a day of each other?
Mitch.
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Not that I know, but then again, I buy enterprise grade drives for my RAIDs. I
guess the consumer grade stuff could be wonky like that.
Dan
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On Dec 4, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Put them on a
Does anyone have the answer to Curly's question?
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
If you want to store the files on a hard drive, and never need to make a
cd or dvd, (or mp3 player) wouldn't it be possible to save the file as a
.wav
Yes!
I have even had identical hard drives in different machines die
within days of each other. These were seagate ide. It appears they
had a cyanide pill programmed into the software to kill the drive
after 10 years. I don't believe that each drive just happened to die
of natural causes
FLAC files are like a WAV file, but smaller. Here's a good explanation:
http://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-flac-the-high-def-mp3-explained/
Dan
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On Dec 4, 2014, at 2:05 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Does anyone have the answer to Curly's question?
OK Don wrote: Keep us informed of your progress - I have a bunch of 78's
to digitize, as
well as some LPs, but haven't gotten started yet. Perhaps someday when I
get bored . . .
Don - I have stacks of classical 78s that are waiting to be played on my
antique Dual turntable once I set it up in my
.
Greg
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I can remember when I was somewhat of an audiophile
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Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Put them on a RAID.
Any truth to the stories of people buying a pair of matching disks, configuring
them in RAID 1, and having them both die within a day of each other?
Mitch.
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I think the MSFT player will do wav OK, and VLC will play about anything.
I listened in my truck this afternoon to a ripped vinyl -- CD of
Mississippi Fred McDowell I Do Not Play No Rock'n'Roll I made years
ago. Sounded quite good aside from a few burps here and there that
might have been
Audacity will take a 78 played at 45 and turn it into the proper speed.
I ripped some old 78s I got at a yard sale on my turntable that only
does 33 and 45, nothing particularly interesting, but it worked OK.
--R
On 12/4/14 2:45 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
OK Don wrote: Keep
Curly wrote:
If you want to store the files on a hard drive, and never need to
make a cd or dvd, (or mp3 player) wouldn't it be possible to save
the file as a .wav analog file and play that on demand? Or is
the .wav way to big to do this?
You could. But a FLAC is a smaller file plus has
OK wrote:
Does anyone have the answer to Curly's question?
Yes. I'm just slow. *smiles*
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Greg wrote:
Much of our collection other than classical music has been rode
hard and put away wet. The audio restoration software of Sound
Forge produces a remarkable improvement in the listenability of
these LPs.
A step I forgot to mention is to wash the LP. Use dish soap, warm
water,
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From: fmiser via Mercedes
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Transcoding LPs to Digital
A step I forgot to mention is to wash the LP.
Record cleaners (NOT CHEAP!)
http://www.musicdirect.com/c-562-record-cleaning-machines.aspx
http://www.nittygrittyinc.com/index.html
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Aren't 78s shellac? Do you wash them with water also?
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes
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From: fmiser via Mercedes
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Transcoding LPs to Digital
A step I forgot to mention is to wash the LP
or 3 raids, each in a different state. A single raid can be taken out
when the controller fails.
Our RAID is purely software, built into Mac OSX. You can take one
of the disks and put it into any SATA Mac and read it, no problems.
Though not the highest-performance solution, it was the
OK Don wrote:
Keep us informed of your progress - I have a
bunch of 78's to digitize, as well as some LPs, but haven't
gotten started yet. Perhaps someday when I get bored . . .
Rich wrote:
Audacity will take a 78 played at 45 and turn it into the proper
speed. I ripped some old
Listers:
I know that some of you are audiophiles to some degree. So this is directed
at you. We have an eclectic collection of LPs of all types of music. A
while back I bought my wife (the main music lover) a cheap ION USB
turntable. She already had a good quality component turntable, but
I have my 40yo Pioneer turntable (quite nice) hooked up to my 20yo Sony
receiver and thence to my iMac. I occasionally rip a vinyl album using
Audacity then export an MP3 to iTunes, which is sorta crappy way to do
it but it works OK. I have some CDs I have made in the past using the
same
I don't, other than to say that most of the music I currently have in
electronic form has been transcoded from analog to FLAC. I can hear the
difference between MP3 and FLAC formats, and my hearing is pretty lousy in one
ear.
I used to have a pretty big vintage setup with a Fisher 400,
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Subject: [MBZ] OT: Transcoding LPs to Digital
Since I am a rank beginner at doing this, I am curious if any of you have
experience
The EAC would be used in place of Audacity?
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Subject: [MBZ] OT: Transcoding LPs to Digital
Since I am a rank beginner at doing this, I
, 2014 4:06 PM
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I don't, other than to say that most of the music I currently have in
electronic form has been transcoded from analog to FLAC. I can hear the
difference between MP3 and FLAC formats, and my hearing
Keep us informed of your progress - I have a bunch of 78's to digitize, as
well as some LPs, but haven't gotten started yet. Perhaps someday when I
get bored . . .
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Thanks for the FLAC tip, as Rick also
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From: Curly McLain via Mercedes
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The EAC would be used in place of Audacity?
In addition to. Audacity is used to create wav
LPs to Digital
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The EAC would be used in place of Audacity?
In addition to. Audacity is used to create
: Transcoding LPs to Digital
The EAC would be used in place of Audacity?
In addition to. Audacity is used to create wav (analog) files from
the vinyl records. EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is used to convert the wav
files to mp3, flac, etc. digital files. I have used EAC for
converting (ripping) cd's
Greg wrote:
We have an eclectic collection of LPs of all types of music.
... then saved them to MP3 files
Since I am a rank beginner at doing this, I am curious if any of
you have experience with this activity to share.
Yeah. Don't use MP3, certainly not for archive master. If you
Curly McLain wrote:
The EAC would be used in place of Audacity?
Rick wrote:
In addition to. Audacity is used to create wav (analog) files
from the vinyl records. EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is used to convert
the wav files to mp3, flac, etc. digital files. I have used EAC
for converting
to FLAC. Thanks to all.
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