[MPA] More on Vinyl to CD

[John Neumann]

I'm not Michael, but,

	I wouldn't buy Spin Doctor (or the new Toast just to get Spin 
Doctor) just for this purpose. Sometimes it works perfectly, but 
other times, when it seems like it should be very easy to see the 
gaps, it creates a huge number of markers (liek around a hundred) at 
seemingly random spots. So you might as well do it by hand in that 
case.

	The other things I don't like about Spin Doctor, compared to 
other programs I use (e.g. Sound Studio), is that you have to select 
a whole region corresponding to a song, rather than just pojnting at 
a certain point where you want the split. True, selecting regions in 
theory is more versatile, but not something you usually use, and a 
big pain compared to split points.

The other thing I don't like is there is no overview of the whole 
file, which helps when you want to find the split points quickly, and 
I recall the scrollling being kind of awkward. In Sound Studio there 
is such an overview, and by clicking in it it takes you to the area 
where you have a close up view. That saves a lot of time and mousing 
around. A core-audio version should be released in April, so I'm 
happy I'll be able to use it in OS X with my MOTU 828.

Good luck,
John


At 10:47 -0800 2/16/03, David Crandon wrote:
>Michael,
>
>How well does CD Spin Doctor do at automatically detecting the gaps
>between songs?
>
>David Crandon
>
>Michael Kohl wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Folks,
>>
>>  I started digitizing my record collection about a year ago. And we ARE
>>  talking some obscure stuff that will never be released on CD.
>>
>>  Toast for the Mac comes with an app just for this purpose called "CD
>>  Spindoctor." It will get the track names off the CDDB (internet
>>  database of recordings). It IS time consuming! So far, in over a year,
>>  I've done about 5 lp's. Hahahahaha! 495 to go! I hope I live a long
>>  time!
>>
>>  Michael
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