Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks I have had the same prob before, some tapes have a bad sig/noise ratio or use shorter gaps between songs (or as in the old Chicago soundtrack I did recently, some songs had no gaps at all). Hmm. I haven't tried this with cassettes but if i remember, some tapes had a signal embedded in them - and i had a tape player years ago that had some kind of music skip feature in that it would seek to the next track. I hardly listen to anything other than cd's nowadays, though. But it brings up a thread on svlug i saw recently where people were discussing related things. Anyway, sox may be of use if you have the cassette .wav file -- there's apparently a 'silence' option that uses a threshold value and silences anything below that value. you might then have better luck in splitting the tracks. Anyway, it was years since i had a box that would do that music search thing, and it seemed to work well only on commercially-produced tapes. My answer was to split the tracks manually, and I feathered the sound at the end of each track down to 0 to make it sound better.. it worked IMHO it's better to do it in audacity since you can visualize the parts that are the gaps between the songs. I was planning on splitting up one big mp3 of a full album i had, but then later saw that soneone had posted the same album on usenet, with the songs split :). Franki -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Has any one fiddled around with splitting tracks, and correcting the default setup to do a better job? I will dive into it myself if no one has, but I would hate to figure it out myself, only to find someone beat me to it. Rob Hmm, don't know about that. I used gramofile to record 3 full cassettes: Warlock Warrior Da'nang and it found and split the songs on all 3. I'm sure you did, but I'll ask anyways - did you follow the correct sequence/steps? -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Rob - I don't know this particular music, but a common problem is applause between tracks. Could that be it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Has any one fiddled around with splitting tracks, and correcting the default setup to do a better job? I will dive into it myself if no one has, but I would hate to figure it out myself, only to find someone beat me to it. Rob Hmm, don't know about that. I used gramofile to record 3 full cassettes: Warlock Warrior Da'nang and it found and split the songs on all 3. I'm sure you did, but I'll ask anyways - did you follow the correct sequence/steps? I have had the same prob before, some tapes have a bad sig/noise ratio or use shorter gaps between songs (or as in the old Chicago soundtrack I did recently, some songs had no gaps at all). My answer was to split the tracks manually, and I feathered the sound at the end of each track down to 0 to make it sound better.. it worked great. but no software can find the endpoint of all songs if the original has non standard gaps or the sig level is such that the app can't tell where the song stops, you don't have much choice but to do it manually. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
OK, I made it through ripping my first tape, and I was really impressed with how it sounds, but I was really unimpressed with how it split the tracks. On Lou Reed 'New York' out of 14 tracks, it only found 4 and I used Audacity to split the others. Has any one fiddled around with splitting tracks, and correcting the default setup to do a better job? I will dive into it myself if no one has, but I would hate to figure it out myself, only to find someone beat me to it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
