Glad I only signed on for a… /i/web/status/1… 1 week ago They blurred a naked breast in Nostalghia too. Mat Brewster on Bootlegs of the Day: February…ĬT Creegeen on Bootlegs of the Day: February… Simon F 74 on Natalie Merchant Unveils New S… Noel in Atlanta on Bootlegs of the Day: February…īluefin17 on Bootlegs of the Day: February… Natalie Merchant Unveils New Single “Come on, Aphrodite” feat.THAT is a good work sharing process.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Ĭlick To Receive E-mail Updates Search Categories Categories Tags 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1999 2000 2002 2004 2005 2011 alt-cuts & b-sides berkeley bob dylan Bootlegs boston california canada chicago colorado compilations crazy horse england France germany grateful dead illinois japan jerry garcia jgb london los angeles Massachusetts Miles Davis neil young new jersey new york new york city oakland ohio pennsylvania Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd san francisco shows by date shows by year texas the band the netherlands The Who van morrison warfield theatre Places I Dig ![]() So I prefer to do the tweaking and let you do the publishing :-). Takes a lot of folder space to do and a little additional time also, but ensures that I have a lossless file in the archive and a lossy file in the playback folder.Īnd to Mat: publishing in FLAC (only) is the best decision, because lossless formats are ideal for post-processing, which I do a not – bootlegs are unique, but very often the sound can be improved quite dramatically (to your liking) to a raw soundboard and in particular to an audience recording before you commit it to the playback folder – I will not call what I do for “remastering”, but more like “tampering with to suit my own taste”. So I convert my cd’s to FLAC, save them in a folder for source files, then convert them to m4a and saves them in a playback folder. However, I still use Media player for cd ripping – it is fast, has good lookup facilities for metadata and covers, and in the latest version it can now convert to FLAC directly. In the past I used Windows Media player, but it has its problems with metadata management and is no longer a good choice – too many files cannot be identified any longer. ![]() It also has a lot of presets for cleaning up stuff such as clicks and pops from vinyl, hum removal, noise reduction, equalization application, mastering etc, but the quality of the suggestions the presets or wizards come up with are somewhat questionable – they tend towards being too encompassing, also robbing away some of the quality of the sound in the process.įor playback I use (quite surprisingly) the Groove Music player from Microsoft, because it presents the albums graphically in a fairly simple layout, and does not alter any metadata, like some other music players do – it is very slow in indexing files though. However, Foobar2000 gives so many possibilities for tweaking files, dealing with sound quality issues, applying metadata etc, that almost all your “library” work can be accomplished from this single application – and there are quite some plugins that cater for very specialized demands as well.įor file splitting, recording of vinyl, channel balance adjustments, etc, I use Sound forge audio cleaning Lab 2019, which unfortunately is a commercial program, but not the most expensive. As a lossless format FLAC is perfect, but for universal playback the mp3 or m4a are preferable, so that is what I convert to – I have given up mp3 file format and switched to high quality m4a (which is meant to be the successor to mp3) as playback format, which is also supported by Foobar2000 – but again installation of the converter is quite a task. ![]() It can convert all sorts of sound file formats into most others. I had a new pc just 2 months ago, and it took me more a less a week to get Foobar2000 up and running like on the previous pc – I am not that bad when it comes to pc installation and setting up, and I had it on the previous pc and therefore already knew a lot about how it works.įoobar2000 is a program made for the enthusiast, not the occasional user – I use it every day, and to me it works as a dream. It is a freeware and meant to be HIGHLY configurable, so setting it up can be quite a nightmare, if you are not a PC savvy person – look up an installation instruction on youtube – you will find hundreds of videos outlining Foobar2000 setup. As a PC-only user, I use Foobar2000 for most things that deal with conversions, because it also contains a lot of additional functions such as equalizers, etc.
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