Values?
What ya gonna do eh?
Firstly I reject several FZ classics 'coz they too knacked.
Then Amon Duul II "Dance of the Lemmings" pops up.
Part 4 of the vinyl ripping
I've ground to a halt again and that will not do.
What's paused me is "Black Hole Star" by "The Neutrons" a Man offshoot or something like.
Not really prog rock but I can't really be bothered searching Genres for the correct slot.
Suggestions on self addressed Izal - use it and flush it.
Anyhow putting Tags on the mp3's is the next task.
I use and contribute to MusicBrainz.
Read the history of CDDB and Gracenotes.
Boo Apple Corp - Nasty Global Capitalist spoil our free resources.
They have a tagger thang which deals with most stuff neatly - Picard
Make it so ye spawny swabs.
JeanLuc as pirate Cap'n
But this time it fails 'coz it only listed a CD re-release not the vinyl one.
So I've got to add all the details of my release.
But I've run out of time telling you lot about it.
See you soon - domestic duties call.
... the ripping resumes.
Currently I mostly been processing a greatest hits choice from the lovely S.
Cream o the crop currently
This with "Raw Power" guitarist.
Which other individual got an equal credit with the Ig?
I can't think of any.
I'm using Audacity some build, 1.2.5 that I should update but it's okay.
Give the disc a good clean whether it needs it or not with the trusty Milti Duo-Pad and Permaclean, then finished up with Exstatic cleaner
Zoom the display area to 1:00 hour, hit record, pause, stick disc on , unpause and off we go.
Remove the crap at the
w/ "Edit>Cut"
Then we've gotta chop it up into tracks.
Analyse>Silence is ok but I end up correcting it too much - so I add a label track.
"Project>New Label Track" and appleB (it's a Mac thang - think CtrlB) to add labels.
"File>Export Multiple"
Choices mp3 (obviously)
any naming you like but remember to include "before first label" option
(unless you've added a label at the start of course)
The vinyl ripping saga part 55
The phono preamp went back, I explained nicely to the hifi shop people that it distorted and even took some examples on my phone for them to listen to. They were great and instantly gave me a replacement, no quibbles at all. All power to Moorgate Acoustics. Happy; I go home and rig the new one up. You've probably guessed by now - it behaves exactly the same. Some heavy googling later, I find that some builds of Audacity, some iMacs (intel duo core) and, get this, some USB ports cause this to happen. Swap the preamp to port 2 (the middle); it was in a hub before, and its fine. Is it just to me that the b in USB for bus suggests that they're all equivalent. Apparently not, hmmm.
This tale carries on, later Sandy tries to empty her camera into iPhotos, normally achieved by sticking the SD card in the reader and the Mac does the rest. Nowt happens, take the reader out of the hub and plug it in one of the iMac’s USB (1 or 3 I’m not sure how they're numbered) and its fine. 3/4 hour later and I’ve found a combo which suits all the stupid boxes. I thought this was supposed to be easy!
Back to the hifi shop tomorrow for big helpings of deer offal encased in pastry and baked in a dish. I suppose I can take the forum references and add to their knowledge, thus they can support their customers better.
I get an idea in my head and all of a sudden synergies, coincidences and synchronicities flash up everywhere. Have you ever noticed how the number 23 seems to crop up everywhere LOL. No seriously, I’ve been given the e-learning brief at work and social constructivism suddenly features large in everything. I suppose that’s the whole point of web 2.0. If I didn't keep this blog you people out there wouldn't have much idea about the life of a soon to be 50 techy obsessive some time educator WASP male folk rock country soul jazz reggae fan living in the north of England in the early 21st C. And everybody needs that knowledge
Playlist
(guess what - it isn't my image)
Snow, brill.
I hear we're going to get winter but only for a couple of days.
Who broke the climate eh? Wznt me no sirree.
I remember when we got proper Yorkshire winters 8 feet of snow from September to April and loved it.
Good laugh yesterday on radio 4 pm prog. Everybody’s whinging about how 1cm of snow falls and the country grinds to a halt, no like in Sweden. Then they get a Swede telling them that snow cripples their transport system and how they wished is was like Switzerland where trains always run.
Well I laughed.
I've got to blog about blogging,
I promised I wouldn't but I’m full of promises that aren't worth much. What about personal stuff that isn't about me? I've just realised I’ve posted pictures of real people (in the park) and should have asked for permission first. Also dr thrasher's given me his myspace address and I think I should link to it here. I guess he shouldn't object coz he'll get more friends, but I need some protocols here.
No personal stuff unless it's already in the public domain.
There's a start, it might work.
The vinyl ripping continues with a new pre-amp. I decided the old NAD amp was goosed - remember the humming. So I looked around and found a NAD phono preamp with a USB outlet.
Seems that modern amps only have line inputs and phono preamps are common coz the real hifi buffs still insist on vinyl.
Anyway this NAD doodad is in their catalog but nobody lists a price. Found the local dealer and went to ask them. They said it’s so new that they didn't know either but they did have similar by some other gang.
So I bought this.
Bugger me I connect everything up and the humming is still there. Turns out it's a damaged cable on the turntable all along.
Whatever, the preamps a good idea coz its got a better analog digital converter than the imac. Then it does this after 45sec - bolloxx it's gotta go back.
Excitement - I’ve managed the 33/30 bus combo superfast and at 0700 hardly any traffic. A nice early start, bastard place is shut, caretaker gone AWOL. Retreat to local greasy spoon for breakfast and try again later.
This day aint starting well, I just fired the yolk in my saus & egg w brown into my lap. Brand new trousers clean on. Oh yes I finally got some £40 for2 at gap.
God this is thrilling!
I'll stop b4 I die from my own banality.
