I've used Emagic's Audiomedia Card and a not so great turntable that has a pre-amp built in to transfer some of my records. They end up sounding quite good. I have a nice stereo it's quite sensitive and always shows any flaws in the recording. I've tried using the Wave tools to take out some of the hiss and clicks but it always degrades the sound. So I keep the little clicks in and take out the big ones manually. Ultimately I would love to get a laser turntable. Has anyone had any experience with one? Julz On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 06:35 PM, Brian Willoughby wrote:
I wanted to clarify a few points and basically add to the information provided by Patrick (thanks, Patrick!)
[ Shn is used mainly for bootleg recordings (I'm not sure why) and [ if you look on the a.b.s.shn newsgroup, most of the material are [ bootlegs.
It depends upon your definition of bootleg. Some people only use the term "bootleg" for illegal live recordings or even just illegal copies of official studio recordings. A more loose definition of "bootleg" is any independent recording that is not official. The etree.org site does not condone bootlegs. Their community of tapers record from bands who allow fans to do so, and at venues who allow this. I would not call this a bootleg, but it is an unofficial recording, even if it is legal. I have about 50 live recordings of Seattle bands. I do not consider myself a bootlegger.
Like you, I have no idea why the taper community has not moved on to a better format. I guess it does all they need it to. I added features to Shorten which I needed, but eventually I needed way more than I had time to add.
[ Flac is not that popular, by far the most popular format is .ape; [ if you look on the a.b.sounds.lossless/misc newsgroups, most of [ the material is encoded in .ape format. Lossless formats are [ approx. 50% of the size of the original .wav file
Monkeys Audio may be more popular, but it is not available for the Mac. The source code is available, but since it includes assembly language and is organized into DLLs, I doubt it will be easy to make APE available for Unix or Mac.
FLAC files are sometimes as small as 33% or 25% of the original.
[ I'm not familiar what platforms all these codecs span, but a [ little rese http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yello