Mapman That's a pretty neat album to have, imagine getting anything like that today!
Just curious as to how you are ripping your vinyl to your server?
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B,S &T 4 .... Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Vinyl
This one needs a bit of help, definitely a $1 album! |
Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano - Julia Fischer
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Uber I use an art usb phono plus a2d converter to usb on my laptop that hosts the music server on attached usb drive.
I use audacity software on the laptop to capture the digital at cd resolution and then master the digital. I play the entire album into one file then edit it down and identify the tracks. I run normalization and click removal processing on the file with Audacity. Then I write the individual tracks to corresponding flac format files on disk.
Next I use Picard software to quickly tag the files. Finally if needed I use the manual file tagging feature of dbpoweramp to fix any tags needed including adding album art.
Then my plex music server software automatically picks up the new files and adds them to its library. I also use logitech media server and Squeeze devices so I run the rescan function in LMS. At this point the new files are available via both plex and Squeeze box devices.
Finally I attach my backup drive and run Seagate backup software to back up the new files.
I think I picked up the album at Goodwill one day. One of my best finds there.
Today when setting up I found I had volume in only one channel playing the vinyl. Isolated things down to a bad tube in my Audio Research sp16 pre-amps’s phono section. Swapped in a spare tube and good to go. That was the first tube I’ve had go on me in several years. I hate when that happens.
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Mapman Sounds like you have that process down to a fine "art". I guess I am old and lazy but sounds like a lot of work, maybe not once you have done it a few times and it is second nature. My daughter has a tt with a USB output as well and I was considering trying to rip some vinyl, which is why I asked. Software is the key it appears.
Never had a decent Goodwill vinyl purchase yet I am afraid.
Glad you found the channel hiatus fairly quickly and easily, that can drive you nuts!
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Had to buy it when I saw this gem sitting in the $1 box.
Putting it Straight ... Pat Travers
Vinyl |
Quentin Tarantino's Mix - awesome |
Freeways ... Bachman Turner Overdrive
Vinyl |
Soul Searching ... Average White Band.
Vinyl |
@uberwaltz
Great choices. Brings back memories. Soul Searching was soon after Steve Ferrone joined. Steve was really funky. Saw them on the Person to Person tour around that time. Their fortunes were on the way out as Funk/Soul/disco was dying and Reggae/Punk was all the rage...
Freeways happens to be another album for a band that had lost its lustre or chart topping success...I really liked this album a lot but it was the last for BTO. So different from Not Fragile - no wonder Turner hated it - no meat for Turner to sink his teeth into like Sledgehammer.
I ride shotgun on his money... just sounded too nice and unconvincing with Randy’s soft vocals. I wonder how the outcome might have been different had Turner sang lead?
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@shadorne
I completely agree on Freeways, I mean it's fine just different, I only bought it as it was just $1!.
Next up was going to be Not Fragile which is in another category altogether!
Will get round to that later today. |
World Party - "Goodbye Jumbo"
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Jethro Tull, “Aqualung” Jethro Tull, “This Was” Jethro Tull, “Stand Up”
all vinyl. |
"Concert By The Sea" - Erroll Garner |
The Who, “Face Dances” MFSL vinyl
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Hard Labour ... Three Dog Night.
Another $1 purchase on vinyl.
I have to say after thoroughly cleaning all of these $1 records yesterday ( the B,S&T just was awful!). I am very pleasantly surprised at how tick and pop free they have come out.
A truly good weekend. |
Facades ... Sad Cafe
$1 vinyl |
Search of Lost Chord - Moody Blues |
Need to get some Moody Blues on vinyl for sure! Thx for the reminder.
Don't Say No ... Billy Squier.
$1 vinyl
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Black Sabbath ,"The End". HR 24/96
ozzy
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@david_ten as a Lorca fan i hope you also enjoy Jim Harrison...I know I do
Zenyatta....I may have inhaled.....I do remember getting this the day it came out - I had a Hafler amp and Infinity QB with a Denon TT...smoking....might even have been with two box goofy but great PS audio preamp.....ha memory..
anyway I am backmin Seattle so I can crank it up
enjoying Amy Helm - Didn’t It Rain.... |
Wayfaring Strangers - Shifting Sands of Time
this is a reference volcal and emotional recording for me.... |
@mapman i need to coerce you into helping me with my network.....omg what a monumental hassle...... |
my currency of choice are decent Pinot
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Black Sabbath ,"The End". HR 24/96
ozzy
Ozzy is that you?
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I'm In You ... Peter Frampton
$1vinyl. |
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone. Again. Her music doesn't really hit me initially. But the more time I spend with it the better it gets. |
Picked up a Rory Block lp, listening with an m91ed with new needle (20 hours.) Why have I never heard of her? She has 20+ albums. Fantastic acoustic guitar playing. |
Jason Isbell - Southeastern....... dude can rip my heart out... |
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Autumn - Don Ellis
@tomic601 Yes. It was also nice to see him (in person) with Anthony Bourdain. Bukowski is another. |
Come Clean ... Puddle of Mudd.
This has one of my fave all time songs on it. ... Blurry.
CD.
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Feels So Right ... Alabama
Vinyl |
Blood, Sweat & Tears S/T
Vinyl |
Naturally .. Three Dog Night
Vinyl |
Elvis Costello - "All This Useless Beauty" |
uberwaltz, I admire the breadth of your interest...but Alabama? ;-)
I just got Donald Fagen's "Nightfly" CD in the mail this afternoon. As expected the production quality is hard to top but not sure I like it as much as any of the other Steely Dan recordings I have. |
N80 I know, lol, Alabama might not see much play tbh. It was part of the lot of $1 each vinyl I recently purchased. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
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Synchronicity ... The Police.
Cassette via Nakamichi BX300 on second system
Superb recording on factory Chrome tape. |
Pink Floyd, “The Wall” MFSL Double CD |
An album I never tire of, has something for every mood.
August and Everything .. Counting Crows
CD in the car
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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1-Argerich no. 2-Stephen Bishop no. 3-Perahia red book CD all the way... |
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis (Teo Macero) @lalitk , fyi |
Head First .. Uriah Heep
Vinyl, original 1983 gold stamp Mercury pressing, absolutely mint condition!
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Precious Time ... Pat Benatar.
$1 vinyl |
A bit of 80,s Brit pop/rock!
True .. Spandau Ballet.
$1 vinyl. This is actually a pretty spectacular recording despite the genre. |
uberwaltz, agree about August and Everything After. That album sounded so original and groundbreaking to me when it came out. Still love it. |
Right now:
Oxford American 2003 Southern Music CD no.6:
Swamp Dogg, Del McCoury Band, Linda Ronstadt, My Morning Jacket, The Gourds, Memphis Minnie, R. L. Burnside, Willie Nelson, Will Kimbrough....to name a few |
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