Live Music Help from John R

[seacrestkristi]

I'm workin' on it some more when I get back. Gotta go for a while. Appreciate your responses and help, SJ and JR. This is a way discovery for me.

 

[John R]

Treefrog, sorry, that should have read 'friends don't let friends trade mp3'

instead of dbpoweramp, i think the flac frontend may be easier.

just drag the folder into the frontend window and hit decode. be sure to check the 'delete input files' box only if you want the flacs to be deleted.

after their decoded, you should be able to deal with them in the way you're normally accustomed to.

let me know if that works.

 

[seacrestkristi]

Been havin' so much funn with this stuff. Thanks for all the grayt 411 ya'll. Listenin' to Del McCoury right now.
Oh yeah and I did decode from FLAC to wav in the frontend. No prob. ;-) If I uninstall dbpoweramp will it all still work cuz I'm listenin' on winamp?

 

[John R]

yes, winamp will work if you uninstall dbpoweramp. not sure if i mentioned it earlier, but you can listen to the .flac files in winamp to see if you want to decode a particular show to .wav for burning, etc

 

[seacrestkristi]

yes, been listenin' to all kinds of grayt stuff. I just keep downloading more too. Thanks.

 

[TreeFrog]

OK, after much experimenting, here's my system for getting to MP3s that I can stuff in the iPod:

1-Use the FLAC front end to add artist name (only) to all the files at once. Doing so seems to put in all the rest of the tag structure, so you don't have to create all rest of the fields individually. Hit OK.

2-Use the FLAC front end again to enter all the rest of the common tag info to all the files at once, in the fields that will now exist after step one. Album name (I just said Live at Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2007, or wherever taped), year, comments. Then hit the Edit Single button and go back and fill in the song names and track numbers.

3-Use dbPowerAmp Music Converter to go to MP3. I went at 192. This step HAS to follow 1 and 2 or you won't have any tags in the MP3s, and iTunes will stuff your tracks all under Unknown Artist/Unknown Album.

4-Import into iTunes. My iTunes version chokes on importing 9 tracks at once. So I only select 4 or 5 at a time.

I could have let the FLAC front end convert to WAV and imported from there into iTunes, letting iTunes do the MP3 (or AAC) conversion. But I wanted to go to MP3 in one step to avoid any possible losses in doing two conversions.

Next chore, which I haven't tried yet and hope goes smoother, will be to convert to WAV with the FLAC front-end, then use Roxio to write audio CDs for the car.

I'm not playing the tunes on the PC, I have a Tivoli table-top with CD and iPod dock for listening while computing.

 

[TreeFrog]

Who else besides me knows where Seacreastkristi took the photo for her avatar?

 

[TreeFrog]

1-Use the FLAC front end to add artist name (only) to all the files at once. Doing so seems to put in all the rest of the tag structure, so you don't have to create all rest of the fields individually. Hit OK.

2-Use the FLAC front end again to enter all the rest of the common tag info to all the files at once, in the fields that will now exist after step one. Album name (I just said Live at Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2007, or wherever taped), year, comments. Then hit the Edit Single button and go back and fill in the song names and track numbers.

OOPS

Just doing the Emmylou from Telluride, and I realized that I'm using dbPowerAmp to add the tags, NOT the FLAC front end.

Hope that didn't cause any confusion...

 

[TreeFrog]

Next chore, which I haven't tried yet and hope goes smoother, will be to convert to WAV with the FLAC front-end, then use Roxio to write audio CDs for the car.

Done. Works like a champ. Went to WAV with the FLAC front end, then used Roxio CD Creator to make a music CD of the Chick Corea-Bela Fleck from Telluride. No drama, no tricks, all straightforward. Playing it on the Tivoli right now.

 

[John R]

treefrog, glad it's working for you. enjoy the tunes, there's enough of them there, that's for sure.