Recording and combining

[Dale Latimer]

I use DAR.fm, which records shows for later listening in chunks of about 15 minutes.

After cutting out the pre-and-post-show stuff, I use an MP3-file combiner to put the chunks together (it's far more work to do it with my audio editor, plus it has problems saving the put-together product to its own file), but the combiner I've currently got still leaves an ever-so-slight gap between the chunks.

What do others here use to string together audio files, and do they do a better job at filling in such gaps?

[michaelcasselman]

Media MP3 Joiner. Freedownloadable software.

I bust out the old Maxell cassette tapes to record off of my boombox, then record them (through an AUX connection) onto CD on an all-in-one 33/45/cassette/CD burner, then I take the burned CDs and rip them onto my computer into MP3 format (192 kbps). I "trim out the fat" using Audacity 1.3 Beta, then merge with Media MP3 Joiner or Audacity itself. With Audacity, I can refine how much of a gap there is between any sections (although I try to record whole segments without slicing and dicing songs).

My remaining dilemma is whether or not to combine the segments as individual hours or as whole 3/4 four shows.

[Mike]

I also use Audacity for stringing them together, though it can be a bit time-consuming.

[40fan]

I was a little hesitant to try this at first for fear of crashing my already bloated hard drive...but I did it...and...it worked!

Before I left for work this morning I brought up the stream of 6IX on RealPlayer, clicked on the RealPlayer Downloader, set the duration for 12 hours and put my PC into sleep mode.

I come home, switch back on and am delighted to find a flawless 12-hour recording of classic hits from Perth, Australia complete with the entire repeat of AT40 The 70s. All that's left to do is trim.

Not all streams are compatible with RPDL (and RealPlayer has given me fits on past occasions) but both 6IX and 2CA streams download nicely and provide last chance rebroadcasts of the show.

[PapaVanTwee]

Audacity is up to 2.0 now. Haven't had the time to try the new release... but it looks nice.

[albe]

MP3 Direct Cut does the trick for me. I record the shows in segments, trim the fat on the fly during the commercials (yes there is enough time between ads to do this...it's that fast) and eureka an entire show edited or combined which just means copy and pasting those segments.

[shadster]

Feb 12, 2012 15:29:27 GMT -5 michaelcasselman said:

Media MP3 Joiner. Freedownloadable software.

I bust out the old Maxell cassette tapes to record off of my boombox, then record them (through an AUX connection) onto CD on an all-in-one 33/45/cassette/CD burner, then I take the burned CDs and rip them onto my computer into MP3 format (192 kbps). I "trim out the fat" using Audacity 1.3 Beta, then merge with Media MP3 Joiner or Audacity itself. With Audacity, I can refine how much of a gap there is between any sections (although I try to record whole segments without slicing and dicing songs).

My remaining dilemma is whether or not to combine the segments as individual hours or as whole 3/4 four shows.

What do you do w/ the Cassettes after your done w/ them??

I too record the show on Cassette Off-air, an usually keep it archived as such but if I want to transfer it to digital I'll either play the cassette an record it to cd's on my CD recorder (an subsquently rip the disks into windows as an mp3s) or use my media player to record the whole show as 1 .wav file, can then use audacity to edit if need be an then burn to cd. Don't have the storage space to keep all these files plus w/ 1 laptop already biting dust (I know I lost at least a half dozen shows on that now useless laptop), can't risk losing more shows so I make sure I've got hard copy.

[michaelcasselman]

I just reuse the cassettes from week to week.

I'm getting to the point where I'm about ready to transfer the shows from my computer onto either CD-RWs and/or 16 and 32 GB thumbdrives for easier storage.