TSGL: recommendation

Sun Mar 9 18:50:36 EDT 2008

Yes sir, me too. And, I know a few othes who also like their music.

ED
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
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>I love Mahler (and Beethoven and Brahms and Schubert and Mendelsohn and
> Dvorak and Ravel and Smetana... and ... and ...
> http://www.beethoven.com/beethoven_ad.asx )
>
> I'm glad somebody else does, too.
>
> Russ Coover
>
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> Behalf Of gcc
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:06 PM
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>
> Hi Ron.  I have made custom "party disc's," burning some of my favorite 
> rock
>
> n roll tunes onto blank discs.  They definitely come in handy when friends
> are about.  Not many of these guys and gals are into classical music; in
> fact, I'm pretty sure that an 84 minute Mahler Symphony would pretty much
> put them into a coma  ;-)
>
> Thanks
> gcc
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Grant" <nortnarg at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: recommendation
>
>
>> Hi gcc,
> Glad you found CDex useful.  I have used it for years.  It is a simple
> program and it always works!  Also in the settings if you insert your 
> email
> address it will download the song titles and times so you don't
> have to do that manually. As you know it will rip music from a CD and save
> as compressed .mp3. Thus saving a copy of your music to your computer. I
> understand your problem of not being able to use the .mp3 disc in your CD
> player.  That is because many players do not play that format. What I do 
> in
> order to make a custom CD of my songs is to rip them using CDex from many
> CD's and then from those files mix and make a custom CD from different
> artists and songs from different CD's and put them on one disc. You have 
> to
> use another program to convert back to the standard audio format (.wav) in
> order to listen on a standard CD player.  You can use a lot of programs 
> for
> that, but one you may already have is Windows Media
> Player. I use version 9.  On the left toolbar choose "Copy to CD or 
> Device"
> Under items to copy, choose "All Music"  That should list the music you 
> have
>
> saved to your computer.  If not, you may need to to a scan with Media
> Player. Then, with a blank CD in your CD burner, you should be able to
> choose "Copy" and burn selected songs to the blank CD, which is 
> reconverting
>
> back to audio format to play on all CD players.  Some newer players will
> play songs in .mp3 format which allows you to
> get lots more songs on a disc, but for ones that do not this is how you 
> can
> make a custom CD of the music you own from your CD's
>> As far as losing some quality with compressing and then again
>> uncompressing, I am sure that is true, but to my largely untrained ears
>> I cannot tell any difference, but I am sure there is a loss.  The
>> convience of listening to the music the way I want outweighs the loss
>> for me.
>>
>> Hope this helps,  Ron
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> gcc wrote:
>>> Regarding my last post about not being able to burn my mp3 files.  *I*
>>> was
>>> the problem (stupid, stupid, stupid!) I had selected "Make an audio CD"
>>> instead of "Make an MP3 disc."  Nevertheless this does not solve things
>>> for
>>> me as the cd won't play in my cd player, which is where I want to hear
>>> the
>>> music (late nights while in bed)  It works fine in my computer and also
>>> in
>>> my dvd player.  The dvd player is hooked up to my tv so the sound is
>>> pretty
>>> bad coming out of those tiny, cheap, speakers.  Any *other* options?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> gcc
>>>
>>>> That CDex is a nice (free!) program Ron... thanks for the reco.  So I
>>>> decided to give the mp3 format (burned on cd) a try to see if I could
>>>> live
>>>> with the compression that Justin and Alan suggested might be a problem
>>>> for
>>>> me.
>>>> CDex did it's job perfectly, converting the wav files to mp3. Problem
>>>> is,
>>>> that Nero won't burn the mp3 files to my brand new, empty, 700 MB cd-r.
>>>> I
>>>> get a message that says I don't have enough room on the blank cd to 
>>>> burn
>>>> the
>>>> files.  Checking the properties of each mp3 file I find that they only
>>>> total
>>>> to 87.7 MB, so there should be plenty of room on that blank cd. As an
>>>> aside,
>>>> the wav file that I converted to mp3 was 800 MB, so that sure is a lot
>>>> of
>>>> compressing!  Anyway, I can't imagine why Nero tells me there's not
>>>> enough
>>>> room on the blank cd. Any ideas about that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> gcc
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Ron Grant" <nortnarg at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:51 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: TSGL: recommendation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> CDex  can be downloaded at:  http://cdexos.sourceforge.net   It is a
>>>>> free program that will rip CD's to your computer compressing from the
>>>>> .wav format to .mp3.
>>>>> Once that is done then you can create a disc containing an assortment
>>>>> of
>>>>> .mp3 music files from the computer  and burn them to a CD disc.
>>>>> Usually I can get around 130 songs on one disc this way.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> gcc wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all.  Can anyone recommend here recommend a (preferably) free
>>>>>> program
>>>>>> that compresses wav files, which can then be burned onto a single cd.
>>>>>> As
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> classical music lover who has cds where a single symphony (Mahler's,
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> instance) spans 2 discs, I would like to compress the wav file enough
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> get
>>>>>> them on one disc.  Having to get up out of bed to change discs is
>>>>>> annoying
>>>>>> to say the least :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> gcc
>>
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