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So, I hit a milestone last week. For a long time now, I have been working to digitize all my record albums and audio cassettes. I have a collection of about 1500 albums and 800 cassettes (some commercially purchased, some recordings of albums I've made over the years, and some recordings from the radio). Well, last week, I have captured my very last album and cassette. Everything is on a computer hard disk now, and all albums have had an initial scrubbing using Diamond Cut. Now I have to do the work of cleaning up any extraneous noise between the tracks (I mute the silence between the tracks and fade in/fade out the tails of the previous/next track. I have already done about half of my collection, so I'm actually well on my way.
I then rip everything to 320 kbps MP3 files, which I can play on other devices, and especially in my vehicle, where these days it seems I do most of my listening, or in my travel trailer for when we go camping.
I could never had done any of this without Diamond Cut. I've tried other audio editing programs, but nothing compares to Diamond Cut for its ease of use and its quality filtering results. My friends are amazed at the quality of the audio, especially for a lot of content that otherwise would have been lost to the annals of time.
I also have about 2000 CDs that I am in the process of ripping, also (again, about halfway through), and a number of MP3 albums I have purchased from Amazon, so in the end, I'll have a digitized collection of about 5000 volumes/albums.
Thank you, Craig and Rick, for your great product. I have been a fan since I started back with DCArt3 (that I got for free with a "Smart And Friendly" CD writer I bought some 20 years ago). I have upgraded to every version since then, and it just keeps getting better.
As to my process, before starting this journey, I created a spreadsheet to track my progress. it lists every album, along with information about each album (label, release date, etc). It tracks when I have transferred the album to my hard drive and when I have "cleaned up" any extraneous noise on the album. I took a picture of every album cover, so the resulting MP3 file will show "my album" (scuffs on the cover and any writing and all). After using DC to split the album into tracks, I create a Nero NRG virtual CD image (which, by the way, is mountable as a virtual CD drive on my computer, so i can listen that way as well). I then use a very old copy of Nero (Nero 8) to keep a database of all the CD images and the tracks on each album and then rip to both a 128 kbps (for transfer to my smart phone to maximize quantity) and a 320 kbps MP3 file (for listening on my home stereo). I then use MediaMonkey Gold to complete the tagging of the MP3 files, including inserting the album cover image and other album-related information. I also have a little text file for each album that lists every track on each album. it has been a labor of love over several years now, and i expect to finish probably by the end of 2021. I have ripped approximately 30,00 of the ultimate 50,000 tracks I will have at the end.
Of course, once I finish all that, then there's the matter of my 94 year old father's record collection, which will be like starting all over again. But it's something I love doing.
So, thanks again, and keep up with this awesome program that no one else can hold a candle to...
I then rip everything to 320 kbps MP3 files, which I can play on other devices, and especially in my vehicle, where these days it seems I do most of my listening, or in my travel trailer for when we go camping.
I could never had done any of this without Diamond Cut. I've tried other audio editing programs, but nothing compares to Diamond Cut for its ease of use and its quality filtering results. My friends are amazed at the quality of the audio, especially for a lot of content that otherwise would have been lost to the annals of time.
I also have about 2000 CDs that I am in the process of ripping, also (again, about halfway through), and a number of MP3 albums I have purchased from Amazon, so in the end, I'll have a digitized collection of about 5000 volumes/albums.
Thank you, Craig and Rick, for your great product. I have been a fan since I started back with DCArt3 (that I got for free with a "Smart And Friendly" CD writer I bought some 20 years ago). I have upgraded to every version since then, and it just keeps getting better.
As to my process, before starting this journey, I created a spreadsheet to track my progress. it lists every album, along with information about each album (label, release date, etc). It tracks when I have transferred the album to my hard drive and when I have "cleaned up" any extraneous noise on the album. I took a picture of every album cover, so the resulting MP3 file will show "my album" (scuffs on the cover and any writing and all). After using DC to split the album into tracks, I create a Nero NRG virtual CD image (which, by the way, is mountable as a virtual CD drive on my computer, so i can listen that way as well). I then use a very old copy of Nero (Nero 8) to keep a database of all the CD images and the tracks on each album and then rip to both a 128 kbps (for transfer to my smart phone to maximize quantity) and a 320 kbps MP3 file (for listening on my home stereo). I then use MediaMonkey Gold to complete the tagging of the MP3 files, including inserting the album cover image and other album-related information. I also have a little text file for each album that lists every track on each album. it has been a labor of love over several years now, and i expect to finish probably by the end of 2021. I have ripped approximately 30,00 of the ultimate 50,000 tracks I will have at the end.
Of course, once I finish all that, then there's the matter of my 94 year old father's record collection, which will be like starting all over again. But it's something I love doing.
So, thanks again, and keep up with this awesome program that no one else can hold a candle to...
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