What music are you listening to?

[Sir King]

RE: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton!

[fjp999]

I have started the enormous task of digitising them. So I have been listening to "Lick My Decals Off Baby" and "Clear Spot" by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Bliss mile:

Congrats on the start... should I ever get so much energy... how are you going about digitizing them? Are you happy so far? How large are the files?

[marshlander]

Congrats on the start... should I ever get so much energy... how are you going about digitizing them? Are you happy so far? How large are the files?

Thanks, it's quite daunting and in all likelihood will never be finished :eek:

I plugged the deck (a Thorens TD 160) into a Rotel RA 611 hi-fi amplifier (they show my age), taking a line level output from the amp into Logic on my G4 laptop via a MotU 828 Mkll audio interface. The AIF files seem to be about 195mB per side. I am wondering whether to leave the music in its slightly crackly state or to attempt optimising it through something like Sound Soap before I see whether I can bear the sound of them as MP3s.

I don't have an MP3 player, but we used an i-Pod Touch to play the bride and groom's choice of half-time music (while we were taking a break) when we played for their wedding reception on Saturday. I was shocked at how dreadful the sound was. Is that what MP3s are supposed to sound like? ... truly horrible!!!

[joseph]

i got some new lovly songsmile:

[fjp999]

I was shocked at how dreadful the sound was. Is that what MP3s are supposed to sound like? ... truly horrible!!!

[COLOR="Purple"]I am hoping youre not asking me for an audiophiles opinion on MP3s

From what I have read digital files can sound very very good... I thought the Apple headphones were acceptable but then I bought a pair of cheap but recommended new ones and OMG OMG OMG...

It also depends on the format the files were initially created in. Of course Apple wants you to use their Apple Lossless and many recommend AAC which is even higher... I am not sure if the player makes much of a diff as long as the player can recognize the format youve used...

OK, maybe a real techie can chime in here... [/COLOR]

[72jay]

am wondering whether to leave the music in its slightly crackly state or

Personally I recommend cleaning them up...thats what i do after recording
in a record (i can't stand that 'record noise' anymore - unless actually playing
vinyl LOL).
I'd love to put more of my records in the computer... but it takes a extremely
long time just to do one ... just don't have the time to do it.

OK, maybe a real techie can chime in here

Not a audiophile or techie but...
When recording something into the computer that you're gonna be editing:
Save the initial file(s) as standard (uncompressed PCM) *.WAV 's only...
same goes for every edit - make sure it saves as uncompressed *.WAV!!
Only convert to MP3 as the final thing.

The reason here is if you save and edit *any* compressed format (for
example MP3) you will loose quality every time you open...edit...save
because it uncompresses when opening for edit and recompresses when
saving.

Personally I can tell the diff between allot of MP3's and a CD...in particular
those encoded at a low bitrate. Hard to explain how it sounds other than
"it sounds like a MP3 or it sounds like a JPEG picture looks - alittle garbled
around the edges"
(but that being said MP3's can also sound quite good too - always use a
bitrate of 192k or higher and 'stereo', not the default of 'joint stereo')

A uncompressed WAV file taken off a CD sounds exactly the same as the
CD it came from... and you could open and re-save as many times as you
want and it'll stay the same quality.

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As a side note:
Personally my computer is connected to the stereo so I can listen to
'computer music' just as i'd listen to CD/Radio/TV/etc ... plus then I can
record from anything as well .......

[72jay]

If anyone has other really great dance sites please let me know.

Google is your friend for that... just put what you're looking for in quotes and
add 'rar' after it (and a few -words to lessen spam...example:
"some artist name" rar -free -trial or maybe
"dj mix" blog -hip -hop -free -trial rar
---oh and don't use internet explorer for this---

Or for radio see if your town has a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Radio_(HD)
That seemes to play allot of diff stuff you won't here on the normal stations

[marshlander]

... Save the initial file(s) as standard (uncompressed PCM) *.WAV 's only...

Any reason why you suggest .wav files rather than the Apple default .aif? If AIFFs are good enough for Pro-Tools ...?

[Sir King]

Enter Shikari - Sorry Youre Not A Winner

[fjp999]

Google is your friend for that... just put what you're looking for in quotes and
add 'rar' after it (and a few -words to lessen spam...example:
"some artist name" rar -free -trial or maybe
"dj mix" blog -hip -hop -free -trial rar
---oh and don't use internet explorer for this---

Or for radio see if your town has a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Radio_(HD)
That seemes to play allot of diff stuff you won't here on the normal stations

[COLOR="Purple"]Thanks for that 72jay...

Was hoping for some recommendations. Love Google and probably use it hourly but being 47 and not near a HOT club dont know the newest greatest DJs.

Thought BONGO was pretty amazing and wondered if there were other sites like it.

and dont got the Pride station and they arent playing on site just now...

thanks for the tip though, didnt know about the rar search....[/COLOR]