Hello, I'm a new member with a major problem. I've been collecting cd's and tapes a while and have been transfering them into mp3 format for the last few months. Some of the tapes aren't out in cd format so I have to copy the entire tape onto the computer and cut and splice to get the songs. My first question is, is there any easier way to do this. It gets very tedious and I still have quite a few shelves to go through. Cd's are a lot easier, but I still have a mojor problem. I can rip the cd onto the computer, but if there is a duplicate song on another cd it won't be the same size.... Some of them are remastered and some of them I think the music companies fudged on transfering them from the recording to the disk itself. Is there a program that will compare the duplicate names together to find out if there are any diffrences between them audiowise? And also can it show me the duplicate tracks so I can transfer them to another folder? What I'm doing is makeing my library more portable due to I wasn't able to carry my collection everywhere I went. I have a Squeezebox Duet with receivers throughout the house and a Creative Xtra that my neighbors kid modified with a 120 g hard drive that I plug into the aux on the car radio or use seprately. I want to have, in the main library, a copy of every song title by singer/group but the duplicates in a seperate file so I at least have a backup in case anything happens to the original cd.
I do know one thing, I'll be glad when I'm done lol
thanks in advance for any help
What you need is software that cuts the files between the tracks. This is not an exact science but it usually works. I would look into audio grabbers like audio grabber, Audacity or Roxio.
MP3 DirectCut is what I use so if you're ripping your tapes to MP3, give it a try (it can also record directly to MP3). If you want software (not free) that can record the tapes to separate files based on blank space, look into Total Recorder.
