Huge Audio Archive Job

[deleaton]

Can you refer me to a book or other source that will tell me how to stream thousands of songs from vinyl and old audio cassettes to my hard drive in WAV format, tag each song with title, artist, genre, etc., and burn them to archive DVDs?
Do I have to sit there for weeks as each song streams, or can I stream enough to hard drive to fill one DVD, fast-forward through them all to type in the tag for each, burn the archive DVD and start streaming for the next DVD?
I've read a lot about the basics, but can find nothing about a huge job like this.
I plan to buy a suitable desktop, peripherals and software.
Del

 

[Stealthtech]

You could multitrack provided you can get hold of multiple decks and turntables and an audio card with multiple inputs.

 

[TexRoadkill]

It's going to be a pretty manual procedure. You could record one side of an album at once then go in and split up the songs.

With wav files there isn't any fancy tagging. Just file names. MP3 has more sophisticated tagging but it is lower quality. You could fit about 6 full CDs on one DVD in wav format. In mp3 format you could fit about 6000 mintues of 128kbs audio.

Programs like Music Match Jukebox have some cool features for automatically trying to figure out the artist and song. No matter how you go about this it is going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG and tedious job.

 

[TimOBrien]

Computers is smart but don't give them too much credit. The Hal9000 series are a few decades away yet.

Buy a REALLY comfortable chair.....

 

[reel buzzer]

Put your finger on the turn table and spin the record real fast while recording, just kidding.

You could use a format similar to this for naming:
000000_000000_000000_000000.wav
artist title genre etc.

Then make a spreadsheet or database in the computer as you do it so later you can look up which song is on which DVD.

When you make your spreadsheet, have the artist, title, genre and stuff in different fields so you can sort the list different ways.

 

[minofifa]

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i did a similar task, i put all of my songs onto an external hard drive. all 4000 of them so far. all i can say is worst job ever!!! it pays off though. I use windows media player and after i have filled in the appropiate fields (i use artist, title and genre) tings are nicely sorted. One day i want to fill in the album fields as well but that is a whole other project. Release dates would be cool too. my suggestion may be to record all of the songs fist, then use windows media plyer to search for all of the audio files and add them to your library, finally edit each field in window media player (series 9 that is). Of course this is with mp3, i don't know about wav's