[slinkelist] how do I do this?

[Michael Neese]

Check out this program.
It separates  on the fly. It work great.

Michael Neese

http://www.aipl.com/singulator.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonnie" <sonnie@casema.net>
To: "Petersen, Chris (Eng)" <Chris_Petersen@NAI.com>; "'Stephen Korow'"
<stephenkorow@decisionresearch.com>; <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 7:01 PM
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] how do I do this?


> on the pause between tracks from different players,
> I'd like to add that you can easily force a pause by creating a map file
> that uses the "using_player" command and add some code here to pause the
> length you need...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> Behalf Of Petersen, Chris (Eng)
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 12:49 AM
> To: 'Stephen Korow'; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] how do I do this?
>
>
> I have also tried to do this to create mix CD's for my car.  I find it
more
> of a pain than it's worth.  The connection would be the Master CD's analog
> output into your sound cards analog input.  You will need a RCA to stereo
> miniplug cable for this - I actually have it set up directly digital, but
> let's not go there right now.  I use EasyCD for my CD mastering.  With
> EasyCD, you need to use the program "Spin Doctor". This program takes
input
> delivered to the soundcard and creates one big wav file out of it.  The
> source usually will be Phono or analog tape, but any source can be used
> (including digital).  Spin Doctor then has an option to search for blank
> spaces and separate the songs into different tracks.
>
> Now here are the problems with this process:
>
> 1) CDJ has no capability of inserting spaces in-between songs.  If the
> consecutive tracks are on the same player, then you will get a space due
to
> seek time.  However, if the consecutive tracks are on different players
then
> there is no pause. At the best you can fade out, then fade in. This isn't
> good enough for Spin Doctor.  One solution is to create a MP3 track
> containing 5 seconds of silence.  Then insert this track in-between each
> song in the playlist.
>
> 2) The analog path into the sound card is really bad.  It would be far
> better to take the digital out of the CD player's and go digital direct
into
> your sound card.  This would require one of the newer sound cards like SB
> Live and it would require a digital mixer like the DXS box.  I have tried
it
> this way and it sounds pretty good.
>
> 3) The dubbing process is very time-consuming.  With the process I
> described, the initial dub from CDJ is in real-time;  Add to that the time
> it takes Spin Doctor to search for spaces (amazingly long even on a
> PIII-450);  Add to that the actual time it takes to burn the CD.
>
> Conclusion:
>
> I believe you would be better off just taking the CD's out of the Jukebox
> and extracting the wav files from each song and then burning the CD.  DAE
> (Digital Audio Extraction - the process of extracting Digital Audio from a
> CD) can be quite fast.  My player can do it at 8X.  There are players that
> can do it even faster.  This decrease in the amount of time to copy the
song
> would probably offset the time it takes to remove the CD from the jukebox.
> Furthermore you get a very clean digital copy of each track.  You also
don't
> run into problems of separating tracks so you can do track skipping.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Korow [mailto:stephenkorow@decisionresearch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 2:53 PM
> To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: [slinkelist] how do I do this?
>
>
> I have two Sony CDP-CX300es controlled by CDJ via by slink-e box.  How do
I
> run a playlist so that it feeds the audio from the CD players back to my
> computer, I assume via the sound card,  so I can burn it to CD?  What
> additional hardware do I need?  How do I find information on setting it
up?
> Is it even possible?  Would it be stored as one huge file as opposed to
> discrete song files?
>
> Please, in answering these questions, assume nothing.  I am just getting
> started managing music and am not conversant in underlying technologies or
> protocols.  Thanks for your help.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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