Sorry for being late with this reply but I've been a bit 'listless' lately and I've left the OT posts to last to browse through. I thought though, as obviuosly quite a few of us have been through, going through or contemplating digitizing analog material, I'd share my recent marathon experience.
Alex Tweedly wrote: I am 99.9% sure that the track names are not on an audio CD. If they > were, iTunes, MusicMatch, etc. would surely retrieve them for us, > wouldn't they ? > Yes, you can be 100% sure. If you take a commercial CD and look at it through the Finder (Mac) or iTunes (cancel the Gracenote lookup) you will see that the tracks are simply listed as Track 01, Track 02, etc. Alex also wrote: > I think today you do: > 1. LP -> AIFF > 2. AIFF -> CD > 3. CD -> iTunes > I did it: 1. LP -> AIFF 2. AIFF -> iTunes 3. iTunes -> CD The only reason I'd recommend this method is that I hate to waste CD space. Most LPs are only 45 min or less. Quite a few Double LPs can fit on an 80min CD. So by putting everything in iTunes first I can then add extra tracks (either by the same artist or of a similar genre to fill the CD. Some tips to make life easy entering data into iTunes. 1) Set iTunes up to list songs ordered by Album. Drag an album of AIFF files from the Finder into the iTunes window. They will be grouped together so when you open the Info window you can use the 'Next' button to sequential add data. 2) Once you've entered the first track details (Track name, artist name, album name etc) press 'OK', NOT 'Next'. By doing so the info is 'registered' with iTunes and from then on you only have to type the first couple of letters and the rest will be automatically filled in (obviously doesn't work for track name). If you don't press 'OK', but use the 'Next' button the auto entries don't include the data you just entered so you have to type the whole lot. Once you've 'OK'ed the first track, for the rest you can use the 'Next' button and every keystroke will bring up auto-suggestions. 3) Do your albums in REVERSE alphabetical order. Both by Artist and by Album name. Consider the following list of Artist. Pet Shop Boys Pete Townsend Peter Allen Peter Blakeley Peter Cetera Peter Cetera With Amy Grant Peter Cetera With Cher Peter Frampton Peter Gabriel Peter Murphy Peter Murphy and Tom Waits Peter, Paul & Mary Because iTunes' intelligent guess works on alphabetical order. If you enter your Artist/Albums in alphabetical order, to enter the ones by 'Peter Cetera With Cher' you would have to type 'Peter Cetera With C' before iTunes would correctly fill in the rest. But if you work in reverse alphabetical order, all you would need to do is Type 'P' and the first guess would be 'Peter Cetera With Cher' - that is after you have entered it the first time. Saves an inordinate amount of typing. HTH _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution