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"Author : Lion
Date : January 1, 2007 03:16PM

Finaly it's working what @$^%&^ system radio365.
I don't like it how they working.
But the music is great Gunosantos.

Jah blessing and Happy New year.
To Roots Archive Posse.

Lion"

Not sure why you've had a problem with it Lion.

I use it with iTunes. Then the radio station(s) chosen to play from 365 appears in my iTunes music library as if it were a track to play. I just click play and it connects to the radio stream. Easy! The only disadvantage of using this and not the live365's own page is that I don't see the track info. So I keep the page loaded in Firefox to inform me of the track names and just listen to the stram via iTunes.

6anbatte:

I've done another maybe 30 12 inchers today since I posted that message. I think I finally have enough done to get going. Just have to wait for them to authorise my payment so I can get started for real!

To solve your problem Leggo, as well as others that might be interested, i've put on my radio website the full tracking order to the playlist that's on air right now....

I plan to do this with all future playlists, so you can check the whole songs and maybe even try to calculate when the song u wanna hear is going to play....

Check this first track list at

www.rockersfoundation.cjb.net

If u wanna hear the songs, log on to:

www.live365.com/stations/gunosantos

Blessings,

Hi Leggo Rocker

Knowing what a total pain it is to digitise vinyl I really do have total respect for you!

Definitely will be checking in and spreading the word.

I've never been an expert in tech stuff, such as knowing the best plates, stylus or cartridge... neither software or hardware... untill the beggining of last year I used to have an old stereo (those classic decks with the vinyl on top, a cheap equalizer in the center and two tape decks at the bottom... real simple stuff..) and that was the way I used to spin my old vinyl records (!) ... and I never had any idea of how could I digitise my vinyl (only now I know there are sound cards with regular RCA cable connection... )...

Then one day when I finally got some money I was looking for a turntable to buy at the web and then I found this new NUMARK USB model...

As I said, I'm not an expert, so I don't know if there's quite a big difference from a top deck like mk-2 (I don't even know wich are the "TOP" decks, or why this technics plates are so highly mentioned) from this NUMARK USB... all I know is that it turned out to be a real easy task to digitise my vinyls... it came with a great audio software to record and edit the tracks and everything... so I just bought an ortofon concorde needle to switch for the regular one and now it seems i've never heard a clearer sound in my entire life...

If I only have a "regular" deck and neddle and it still can sound any better, please let me know... but I really doubt there is a better (or easiest..) way to digitise your vinyl collection...

Blessings,

Yes, digitising is a pain. Set up wise I just use my decks plugged into an Amp, then use Tape Out into my MacBook's line-in mini-jack.

BUT, software has proved tough. I used some freeware to start and it worked well at first then suddenly stopped. Worse still, the output I was getting from my efforst was in Aiff file mode. I was using Switch to convert them. This has also stopped working! So I have 100 Aiff files waiting to be changed into MP3. So I got a program called MAX which also makes MP3 from Aiff files. This works fine BUT doesn 't keep the file name - renaming them with numbers - AAARGH!

Now I am using a apid for program called Audio Companion which makes MP3 DIRECT from the vinyl, no conversions needed.

However, I stupidly carried on using my laptop for other work, including scanning and photoshop while recording my vinyl. Consequently (I think) some tracks have the occasional drop out.

It's very frustrating, very tedious and driving me ever so slightly mad.

But when I think of what struggles the artists must have gone through to record this stuff in the first place, on often home built studio equipment, I remind myself this is nothing - sat in a comfortable house with plenty to eat and nobody trying to gun me down - who am I to complain?

And Guno:

It is true you'll get a better sound if you spend more on Hi-Fi. BUT, anything better will generally be pretty lost when you convert down to 64k MP3s!

I also found that as I spent more on Hi-Fi I soon got to a point where it made very little difference. I could just hear the surface noise better! So although my Hi-Fi stuff is pretty good (all of it comes from the late 70s early 80s though) it would be looked down upon by most 'serious' audiophiles. After all, those guys spend more on just cables than I did on my entire set up!

Oke guys 2edays of 2007.
Mind and head are clean 2 days of Herb and Champange

Radioplayer 365 (free for 5 days)is playing.
Water more than flower is playing by Audley Rollens.
Thanks Guno.

Lion

@Leggo

Thanks for the answers... I knew that when u convert to mp3 in 64k you lose a lot in audio quality, what I was asking was more about when hearing your records... And I noticed the same thing when I changed the needle... the sound was much more clear... the highs and lows more precisely audible... so as the surface noise...

But either way the difference to my old stereo is HUGE... but I don't think that there will be another HUGE (to better) difference if I spend thousands on the best equipments such as decks, cables, etc... to me is quite fine now.

@Lion

Thanks for the support... hope you enjoyed the other songs u might have heard....

@Everyone

I wanted to ask you all what are your suggestions for radio programs scheduling... How many 7 hours shows like these should I try to upload per week?

Do you think 64k is ok to have a cd quality, or should I lower quality to get more hours of "new" music?

..on 64k is almost impossible to have 24h of music without looping... on 32k I could even try to do it... though I know it would be a pretty tough task...

Please give me your thoughts, enlighten my mind with your suggestions....

Thanks in advance!

Blessings,

@ Lion

Herb and Champagne. Happens to be my very own favourite mix. Don't drink anything else (don't drink hardly anything anyway) and don't smoke ANYTHING else, not even tobacco - strictly sensi (and I don't even smoke much nowadays either)

@ Guno

I would prefer less music at 64K. I have already heard some distortion on some of your tracks, although maybe these are ones you have been given already as MP3 rather than you have digitised.

If you want to hear the next astounding quality difference when playing records at home, then by a professional record cleaner. I bought a Moth RCM a year agao and although very expensive it was worth every penny.

After a proper vacuum wet clean the records sound MUCH better, especially those 30 year old roots numbers (which people seem to have wiped their noses on before storing them away in a bag of dog hair)!!!

Even more important, the process often removes jumps and sticks from records that you thought were permanently damaged. And without the deep ingrained dirt in the grooves, the records will last longer.

Of all the Hi-Fi I have ever bought, my MOTH RCM was the best investment of the lot.

One final point, avoid using a DJ cartridge and stylus. I've been told they wear records faster. It seems not all styluses are the same shape - they can be either spherical, eliptical or other shapes???? I don't have time right now to research the facts behind this but...

See here for instance:
http://www.massive.com/in_tune/dj_cartridges.html
http://hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiver ... 31152.html

Play the high quality.64k.
Suggestion follow your heart/mind.
(people alway request sound/songs they have at
home)

Lion