Music Storage

[speakerman1]

Will see what I can do today. Will put a bare bones system in the sound room today and start soon. Maybe if I feel like it. That is my goal today.

 

[speakerman1]

I did get the program Graham suggested so I will start doing that.

 

[speakerman1]

How or what do you use to download music?

 

[jbeckva]

How or what do you use to download music?

Depends on where you're sourcing it from. Use a ripper to rip it from CD... a soundcard with a internal loopback (loops the output back into it's own A/D converter, which has to be a "decent" one if you want good quality) for streaming music... Purchase it from HDTracks (if you want the best quality)... many a way...

 

[speakerman1]

Depends on where you're sourcing it from. Use a ripper to rip it from CD... a soundcard with a internal loopback (loops the output back into it's own A/D converter, which has to be a "decent" one if you want good quality) for streaming music... Purchase it from HDTracks (if you want the best quality)... many a way...

Ripping software to convert to flac.

 

[jbeckva]

Ripping software to convert to flac.

I'm old fashioned, but still a big fanboy of one of the first half-decent rippers out there...

http://www.poikosoft.com/

I used them since 1997'ish or so.. Back when the HP needed just to go to MP3 would take 5 times as long as listening to the song.

 

[speakerman1]

I downloaded that one earlier this evening. LOL

 

[speakerman1]

Is there a good or better CDP for downloading.

 

[speakerman1]

Well I did buy the program Graham suggested. Have done over 100. Still on the new CD storage plus whatever is laying around. The scanner is not fun to use. Or I'm just and idiot. LOL

 

[Maxell-LN]

For ripping CDs, I used Nero CD DAE, version 1 of the program was originally freeware from TDK in the late nineties, then it was bought out buy Nero around 2004. It's a great program as it gives an absolutely perfect sector by sector error report on every track, so when it says error 0.000% (00000000000), you know you have an absolute perfect rip.

When it comes to vinyl, I use a Technics SL BD20D Belt Drive Turntable, that is then linked through to a Rotel RQ970BX Phono-Prestage Amplifier, which then goes to a M Audio Delta 4040. Recordings are done on Sony Sound Forge. I'll back up the original vinyl rips to DVD. Then I'll apply some very, very conservative decrackling. I don't use any noise reduction (it sounds effing awful). The remastered rips are then backed up on more DVD Rs.

I currently have about 18,000 WAVs in my digital library, and this is backed up on a external hard-drive. The original library is backed up on to about 180 DVDs, twice over, which is about nearly 400 DVDs. Each library set is a different brand (Verbatim and Sony), and different batches for absolute redundancy, this is a project I've been working on the last five years, and hell, it is a huge project.

 

[mlucitt]

I have 19,680 WAVs on a 1TB drive (at capacity) that I downloaded from XM Radio over the past few years, mostly classic rock. There may be a few duplicates because they truncate the artist/title to 25 characters and I often spell them out completely, then the filename is different when it shows up again for download. I need more storage space! When will those 5TB drives be coming out? I also have 867 files of live music (my passion) mostly WAVs, but some mp3s because I have not captured them in WAV format and not converted them yet. For conversion I use Adobe Audition 1.5 as the sound editor.

Is there a music management program that will grab the file by artist and title and place it into a selectable playlist?

Mark

 

[BlazeES]

I use a number of different rippers myself; depends on what my goal is and if I'm interested in going straight to a lossless format or not.
One program I still use from way back is called CDex. The latest "released" version is somewhat dated but it hasn't let me down when doing rips to wave.
Anyone still using XP or Vista might want to give it a try. It's free and available on Sourceforge. It's lightweight and reliable as all get up! It even works under Win 7.

A lot of people despise Creative but I also have a suite of tools that came with my Auzentech sound card and I have to say, Creative Mediasource has some powerful capabilities..
Sound Forge Pro, from Sony, is another program I use occasionally for ripping but I primarily use it to shape & edit stuff.

 

[Rat44]

I have 19,680 WAVs on a 1TB drive (at capacity) that I downloaded from XM Radio over the past few years, mostly classic rock. There may be a few duplicates because they truncate the artist/title to 25 characters and I often spell them out completely, then the filename is different when it shows up again for download. I need more storage space! When will those 5TB drives be coming out? I also have 867 files of live music (my passion) mostly WAVs, but some mp3s because I have not captured them in WAV format and not converted them yet. For conversion I use Adobe Audition 1.5 as the sound editor.

Is there a music management program that will grab the file by artist and title and place it into a selectable playlist?

Mark

I used MediaMonkey for a while but then switched to JRMC.
They both have their good points but Media Center just sounded better to me.

 

[speakerman1]

Collectorz.com

 

[speakerman1]

Has anyone used Foobar 2000?

 

[speakerman1]

Is there a way to download a whole CD at once w/o doing it by track one at a time?

 

[jbeckva]

Is there a way to download a whole CD at once w/o doing it by track one at a time?

That EZ CD thing should be able to do that for ya... It can look up the titles, then translate them into filenames of the format of your choice.

 

[speakerman1]

I don't have that on the other computer. I figured out the Foobar. It has a synch also so I can import.

 

[orange]

My idea of MUSIC STORAGE is that I need several more of those Napa cassette wall organizers...

 

[speakerman1]

Was getting frustrated how my old emachines was so slow. So I'm going to do an upgrade. Here is what I got. 1 sick of memory was free. My laptop is dieing.

2 x ($49.99) Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model BLS8G3D1609ES2LX0

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1 x ($79.99) BIOSTAR A68I-350 Deluxe AMD Fusion APU 350D AMD A68 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

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1 x ($59.99) Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - O