Ripping CD's - Today was 'old fashioned' day.

[shigzeo]

Wow - I did it the 'old fashioned' way. Not really, but I don't tend to use iTunes to rip my CD's. I use Max for excellent error correction. But sometimes Max (OSX app) cannot find the album information, picture, songs, title - anything at all. Today, I entered all that info by hand... and loved it.

Back when I copied my CD's to Minidisk, everything was done manually because until CD Text or NetMD, you had to title using the MD unit's remote or body. It was a pain. But, that pain meant I knew my CD's much better. I could remember all the songs, knew in what order they were and my MD's were always so close to me.

Well, typing stuff in on my Keyboard wasn't eye-opening, but brought me back - to those heady days of optical cable searches, governed ripping (so no one bumps my CD player and puts a 'jump' in the music) and hours spent for one CD.

I know my music now!

Addendum: I have ripped into: FLAC, ALAC and OGG Vorbis. iTunes will handle AAC - no problem.

[Ron]

Anyone else remember writing the song titles with a pen on the cassette case cardstock liner?
seems like yesterday...:)

[shigzeo]

Okay, I do remember that. And I briefly remember playing with Vinyl, but that isn't exactly a recordable format is it... I also remember when MD was finally being taken over by recordable MP3 players which costed over 200$ for 64 MB! or in the very first days, 300$ for 32$! That is like 3 songs of quality.

[Mr. Charley]

Anyone else remember writing the song titles with a pen on the cassette case cardstock liner?
seems like yesterday...:)

Ahh yeah, good times. Nothing more frustrating though than making a spelling mistake on that last song...no delete button back in the day, only options were to scratch it out, or use some liquid paper. Oh to be young and innocent again!

Mix Tapes were the best! LOL

[shigzeo]

It was so much more elegant with the MiniDisk. I bet none of you except... maybe NineSwords is aware of the DCC - digital compact cassette - basically Phillips' hate on Sony's Minidisk and revolt against optical media. Proved to be the worst of both worlds: analogue mechanism meaning no random access, but no noise like a digital format. Not uncompressed like DAT, but nothing to promote it other than that you can still use old cassette tapes in the mechanism.

Elegant machines, but a waste of resources.

That is Phillips.

[Ron]

Nothing more frustrating though than making a spelling mistake on that last song...no delete button back in the day, only options were to scratch it out, or use some liquid paper.

LOL



P.S. lesson learned- messages need to be at least 10 characters to submit

[SteveNaka]

I miss the days of making mixed tapes...especially when you didn't have a fancy dual cassette player and had to hold one up to the radio or whatever to be able to record the song you wanted...lol.

reminds me...i've got an unnecessary amount of cassettes that i need to convert to digital..any suggestions?

[shigzeo]

If they aren't pristine SQ anyway, pretty easy just to run a 3,5 millimetre jack from headphone output of the Cassette to the input of your computer, press record and then stop after each song. Then save to your digital format of choice. If you want quality, you will have to spend a bit more on a niceer external sound card, but the mechanics are the same: press play, record, hit stop on the software, save, rinse and repeat. I did this with MDs and cassettes for years. It takes years, that is why I did it for so long.

[SteveNaka]

was just wondering if there was any more elegant solution..ahwell.. i got well over a hundred of them lol...i should just hire someone to do it for me.

[juubee]

I remember having to burn CDs so I could listen to songs in the stereo player in the shower or car. Cus I didn't have iPods or mp3 players. Just a cd player and bringing that to school... Omg

how I love my touch more and more. Makes life so much easier and enjoyable.

[Mr. Charley]

I remember having to burn CDs so I could listen to songs in the stereo player in the shower or car. Cus I didn't have iPods or mp3 players. Just a cd player and bringing that to school... Omg

how I love my touch more and more. Makes life so much easier and enjoyable.

That actually reminds me that a a few weeks ago, I saw someone with a discman (who even knew those things still existed) and it looked so big in comparison to today's MP3 players. It reminded of the days when people used to walk with gettoblasters (sp?) on their shoulders!!! That's how big the discman looked!

[NineSwords]

I use itunes for ripping. It's good enough for me. Maybe because I don't know better.


That actually reminds me that a a few weeks ago, I saw someone with a discman (who even knew those things still existed) and it looked so big in comparison to today's MP3 players. It reminded of the days when people used to walk with gettoblasters (sp?) on their shoulders!!! That's how big the discman looked!


You want to read this article! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8117619.stm) *makes jedi gesture*

[Mr. Charley]

I use itunes for ripping. It's good enough for me. Maybe because I don't know better.




You want to read this article! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8117619.stm) *makes jedi gesture*

Ahhh, the force is strong with you.... ;)

A great article, and a joy to read.
Man, that thing is bigger than his head!

[shigzeo]

That is a good article. I remember reading it a few months back - it even went up at TMA! (http://www.touchmyapps.com/2009/06/30/sonys-walkman-versus-apples-ipod-scott-campbells-13-year-old-deductions/) I actually am looking into getting a portable CD player (pre-jump protection days) for the pretty good output stage. Some were really good (early 90's) and they got progressively worse near the end of the decade to be utter crap with all the jump protection and over caching.

There are kits you can buy for modded Sony CD players which for 300$ sound pretty damn good. Thinking, thinking.

[tractorqueen]

You know, a few days ago I read an article somewhere and this dude had this crazy iPod case that's made of Sony Walkman shell! Geez, don't know where I read it, but I LOLed at the yellow walkman. Good old days of walkman! I was a kid in the 90s, so I didn't have that huge yellow walkman. Got a black walkman then a smaller compact blue walkman. I remember sneaking it into a camp I was at! hahaha...

I still have my cassettes and my mixed tapes. I've seen kids that don't even know how to play a cassette, what more make a mix tape!

[NineSwords]

Oh yeah. Kids today don't know about the mystery that was the Mixtape.

Kids today just send NINs Closer via Bluetooth to their friends phone and then hook up via facebook. As a father of two girls I'm really looking forward to break some poor guys bones when he even thinks about touching...

[tractorqueen]

Nine, you sound like my dad! ROFLMAO. I'm 20 something and he still checks who I go out with! LOL. if only he knew that I actually listen to songs like Closer.... :D

Talking about mix tapes, I feel like fly back to my hometown just to dig out that whole box of mixed tapes! LOL

[shigzeo]

Nine - I feel way behind the curve... I'm 30 and no kids on the horizon for another 2,5 years. And when I was in secondary school, my parents thought NIN were the devil!