Jim Lesurf said:
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Don Pearce wrote:

Transfer to SSD has to be the answer to all these issues.

Once you've done the transfer. :-)

The good news is, you only need to do it once.

Alas, that then gives the metadata problems like not having the printed
leaflet handy, etc.

Strictly speaking, that's not 'audio' ? ;-)

It's a point - but then again physical media have a metadata problem, too :
"you can't grep dead trees". Tagging Is Good.


As a clarinet player with no background in sound engineering, my concerns
are maybe a little off-centre here, but it's a very interesting thread, even
if I can't keep up - especially since I've been playing with 'making a
recording'. So this 'concert-hall' digression is intriguing for me. From the
POV of an instrumentalist with no-one to tell me what I should be doing, I
reckon I know what my instrument sounds like (if I'm playing it as nicely as
I can), better than any third party could, and _that_'s what I want people
to hear. It's a very idealised version of "reality" - I'm rather shocked at
how many little glitches slip through in my live playing (it's "the ill wind
that nobody blows good", like most wind instruments).

If anybody wishes to read my "off-centre" above as "eccentric", that'd be up
to them ...

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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