"AJ" wrote in message
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"RJH" wrote in message
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Hi Andy - it is a labour of love ... I can produce cds pretty quick
now:

Record the LP (hopefully it won't stick etc!) as 2 wavs;

Have a track/time listing handy. I use Music Wizard to do this
before the
rip (also creates a cd case insert), psychicmp3* to do it after if
necessary;

Open the wav in an editor and copy and paste each track as new
files,
labelling each with the track name as you go. You know the length of
the
files from the track listing you printed out earlier. Useful
particularly
for live albums, or any where tracks overlap with no silence.

It takes me less than 5 minutes per lp after recording this way. Any
huge
clicks and pops I edit out by 'bending' the signal**, this takes
longer.

Rob

*superb free prog that recognises names etc of mp3s
** magnify the portion where the click is and join the 'spike' at
it's
lowest point. Use sonic foundry etc to do this - very effective!

I think you're doing it the same way as I was trying. Unfortunately,
not many of my albums had track times displayed. Also, it takes me
more than 5 minutes per LP to prepare all the CD tracks.

Music Wizard (free to try) has almost all the music I have in its database -
in fact it's well over 100,000 titles, it's basically the cddb thing and
updates itself. It generates a data listing which I then print off -
complete with track times. Psychicmp3 will name tracks as well once tey're
ripped to mp3.

How much cleaning up of each track do you do. I mean - do you check
the whole WAV file for jumps and clicks?

Ah no! Just bad clicks. I reconcile this by thinking 'nothing lost' - but
then the odd click and crackle doesn't bother me.

This alone takes me about 5
minutes just to scan the whole file. Then if I find defects that need
cleaning up, that's more time.

My 'sewing' wavs takes an age. If I did it properly it'd take about an hour
per lp.

I may get faster with time but I may not last that long.

AJ

as I said, labour of love ... :-)

Rob