Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[kap'n krunch]

So, Adam - you don't bother with ID'ing the individual songs? Meaning, you just see 1 file, with multiple songs, only not identified as individual songs, with names?

A cue file is not that difficult to make. come on!!!!

 

[GOS]

A cue file is not that difficult to make. come on!!!!

I have no idea how to make a cue file, nor do I even know what it is....or how it works...or why you need one...

 

[fredblue]

So, Adam - you don't bother with ID'ing the individual songs? Meaning, you just see 1 file, with multiple songs, only not identified as individual songs, with names?

at this moment in time I'm "Live without a net", as my dear Edwardo VH & Sammy would say (circa 1986)
(tbh I got in the habit of merrily chopping up all my LP rips in handy bite size chunks and then recently I had an epiphany.. life is way too short.. and I realised I never bothered with doing the 8th avenue shuffle and just played the rips of the albums all the way through, as the gods of rock intended... .. I did chop it up for my dear Kap's Diamondssss and Russsfffft Xmas present but really for my own aural pleasure I simply cannot be arsed chopping it up and will forevermore just leave the rips of the black 12 inchers "as is"!)

 

[fredblue]

I have no idea how to make a cue file, nor do I even know what it is....or how it works...or why you need one...

stop worrying about it Gene Jeanie and enjoy your LPs, they're luvverly as they are, take em in 17-23 min chunks (give or take a chunk) grab a drink and then flip em over :beer2

 

[GOS]

stop worrying about it Gene Jeanie and enjoy your LPs, they're luvverly as they are, take em in 17-23 min chunks (give or take a chunk) grab a drink and then flip em over :beer2

That makes a LOT of sense actually - and if I do it your way (I did it myyyyyyyywaaaaaayyyy), I would find the time to get on with it and rip those LP's that are staring me in the face.

 

[fredblue]

That makes a LOT of sense actually - and if I do it your way (I did it myyyyyyyywaaaaaayyyy), I would find the time to get on with it and rip those LP's that are staring me in the face.

Gene Sinatra, Chairman of the Quad board, rip em and flip em now and you can banana split them up at a later date (maybe you'll chop em up in January, maybe in March, possibly never but who cares? they're your rips, do as you ever so wish with them! )

 

[kap'n krunch]

at this moment in time I'm "Live without a net", as my dear Edwardo VH & Sammy would say (circa 1986)
(tbh I got in the habit of merrily chopping up all my LP rips in handy bite size chunks and then recently I had an epiphany.. life is way too short.. and I realised I never bothered with doing the 8th avenue shuffle and just played the rips of the albums all the way through, as the gods of rock intended... .. I did chop it up for my dear Kap's Diamondssss and Russsfffft Xmas present but really for my own aural pleasure I simply cannot be arsed chopping it up and will forevermore just leave the rips of the black 12 inchers "as is"!)

Awwww. that is SO APPRECIATED...only for me to tell you that I rip my LPs as sides and NEVER chop them ...unless I have to share it with my lovely Lis (and I have to convert them to mp3s)---

Thanks again for the Diamonds and Russssppppffftttt!!!!..now I understand why Tab Patterson never liked CD-4....

 

[GOS]

Gene Sinatra, Chairman of the Quad board, rip em and flip em now and you can banana split them up at a later date (maybe you'll chop em up in January, maybe in March, possibly never but who cares? they're your rips, do as you ever so wish with them! )

Really?? I could chop them up later from the single files??? I didn't know that. Or did I??:yikes

 

[fredblue]

Awwww. that is SO APPRECIATED...only for me to tell you that I rip my LPs as sides and NEVER chop them ...unless I have to share it with my lovely Lis (and I have to convert them to mp3s)---

Thanks again for the Diamonds and Russssppppffftttt!!!!..now I understand why Tab Patterson never liked CD-4....

OH..!!! :yikes

..duly noted..! no more chopping, or Chopin,
yours truly the barber of Quadville

nexpfffft time you're in town I'll show you my ritual for these LPs (clean it in the machine, play it, clean the gunk off the stylus, sweep out the grooves sometimes - it works - play it again, clean it again.. record it in.. even a measly half hour total record like Dolly P's Bubbling Over takes HOURS - no editing, no declicking, no EQing, nada.. and still the records tick and click and pfffftt.. god knows how long it must take the Romano's and the AOQ's of this world, the amount of buffing and polishing they do could keep the crown jewels sparkling forever more.. fortunately the whole process chez moi is powered by copious amounts of gin & tonic so the turntable operator can go on all night like the Duracell bunny and do a few records a night.. how much longer til my Double A's conk out IDK.. soon probably at this rate.. ) Tab Patterson must have had the patience of a saint, time after time I shut off that JVC demodulator thinking - you let me down next time you bastard, like I know you will and I'm putting a hammer through you! somehow I've resisted the urge. a strong urge I grant you.. oh sod all that, merry Xmas kap'n kwadtastic! all my love, wish you were here!

 

[kap'n krunch]

Really?? I could chop them up later from the single files??? I didn't know that. Or did I??:yikes

a cue file is text file without a lot of mystery to it....just open one up using the text file program (Text Edit in Mac) and change the track number and the start time and save it...

Chopping songs is as easy as 1,2,3.....(murder by numbers...) : open the side of the LP you want, choose the song (highlight it) and "Save as"...voilá...rinse and repeat!

 

[fredblue]

Really?? I could chop them up later from the single files??? I didn't know that. Or did I??:yikes

yes of course! you just reload the WAV or FLAC into Audacity down the line and chop it all up as you see fit (its easy with 2-channel files in Audacity, you can flag up edit points within the one long file and then assign the track info on a track by track basis, something you can't do with MultiCh files in Audacity or it would make my witching hours with the old Quad shite so much easier.. ho dee hum)

 

[kap'n krunch]

OH..!!! :yikes

..duly noted..! no more chopping, or Chopin,
yours truly the barber of Quadville

nexpfffft time you're in town I'll show you my ritual for these LPs (clean it in the machine, play it, clean the gunk off the stylus, sweep out the grooves sometimes - it works - play it again, clean it again.. record it in.. even a measly half hour total record like Dolly P's Bubbling Over takes HOURS - no editing, no declicking, no EQing, nada.. and still the records tick and click and pfffftt.. god knows how long it must take the Romano's and the AOQ's of this world, the amount of buffing and polishing they do could keep the crown jewels sparkling forever more.. fortunately the whole process chez moi is powered by copious amounts of gin & tonic so the turntable operator can go on all night like the Duracell bunny and do a few records a night.. how much longer til my Double A's conk out IDK.. soon probably at this rate.. ) Tab Patterson must have had the patience of a saint, time after time I shut off that JVC demodulator thinking - you let me down next time you bastard, like I know you will and I'm putting a hammer through you! somehow I've resisted the urge. a strong urge I grant you.. oh sod all that, merry Xmas kap'n kwadtastic! all my love, wish you were here!

Oh, Adam...am I gonna have to send you a copy of ClickRepair as a Xmas gift?
It's dirt cheap (pun intended) and it can clean a side in a few minutes in the "OFF" mode (meaning you don't hear anything....) if you see any BIG POPS you go to them and highlite them and press "f" (for FIX...don't think it's for anything else heh heh heh) on the keyboard...one sip of the gin and tonic and it's MOSTLY CLEAN...unlessssspppfffftt..it's sandpaper........now I know why I never bothered with CD-4!!!!

I must say that , in spite of its shortcomings it sounds REALLY good!!!!

 

[John Svensson]

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[himey]

Soundforge is the quickest way to chop that I have found. You simply add markers to the sound file and it splits it up into individual songs in a single pass. The other feature that helps is a goto option that takes you to a specific time of the music file where you can simply add a marker.

 

[GOS]

a cue file is text file without a lot of mystery to it....just open one up using the text file program (Text Edit in Mac) and change the track number and the start time and save it...

Chopping songs is as easy as 1,2,3.....(murder by numbers...) : open the side of the LP you want, choose the song (highlight it) and "Save as"...voilá...rinse and repeat!

You lost me KK. Where do you get a "cue file" in the first place? So, I rip an album....it's just music. Where do I get the cue file, with the songs already populated (I guess that's what you mean)

 

[John Svensson]

All this technical mumbo jumbo, to rip or not to rip stuff, needs another thread.:howl

On the listening side.....I can dump my old copy of Carly's "No Secrets" DVD-A, the real McCoy finally showed at a reasonable price. One that I missed getting back in the crazy 2000's. Hey, I finally joined the BR generation too, so I can finally listen to the Chicago Quadios! It must be Christmas.

 

[fredblue]

Oh, Adam...am I gonna have to send you a copy of ClickRepair as a Xmas gift?
It's dirt cheap (pun intended) and it can clean a side in a few minutes in the "OFF" mode (meaning you don't hear anything....) if you see any BIG POPS you go to them and highlite them and press "f" (for FIX...don't think it's for anything else heh heh heh) on the keyboard...one sip of the gin and tonic and it's MOSTLY CLEAN...unlessssspppfffftt..it's sandpaper........now I know why I never bothered with CD-4!!!!

I must say that , in spite of its shortcomings it sounds REALLY good!!!!

oh no, don't send me anything for the foreseeable please, I'm taking a break from LP ripping and in full on Xmas/NY party mode now but thank you for being a super dooper starship trooper arty

 

[himey]

You lost me KK. Where do you get a "cue file" in the first place? So, I rip an album....it's just music. Where do I get the cue file, with the songs already populated (I guess that's what you mean)

It is a simple text file that you edit in notepad.

 

[kap'n krunch]

It is a simple text file that you edit in notepad.

Thank you himey...I'd forgotten the Windoze program....NOTEPAD!!!!!

 

[fredblue]

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