| From John Taylor
| Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
| Subject: [Audacity-help] Is It Possible?
| Years ago I transferred many dozens of LP records to
| cassette tapes. Recently a friend transferred these
| cassettes to a very few DVDs. All is well, so far.
| The cassettes, however, recorded more than one LP
| record on each tape. Each tape had a title but the
| various records and songs were not identified. Now, of
| course, the DVDs contain music from multiple cassette
| tapes and do so without any kind of identification.
| The music segues from one performance to another and
| the listener may not know the title of the music or
| the artists. The music from the DVDs is now in my
| iTunes but I still retain the DVDs.
| Does Audacity have a procedure that would enable me to
| separate the "songs" and identify them so that
| eventually I could transfer them to CDs?
What format are these audio files in as you see them in iTunes - e.g. MP3
or WAV? Do you mean they all last several hours each? Audacity can split
long files up e.g. if you can identify the breaks at the cassette sides in the
files, you could split them on that basis so that you export a WAV file from
Audacity for burning to CD that has songs from all the same album. Note
that audio CDs that play on standalone CD players are limited to about
74 minutes each. To have the songs from that album as individual CD tracks
you'd need to export separate WAV files for each album track and then burn
those WAV files to separate CD tracks - see:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=splitNeedless to say Audacity cannot guess what the songs are if there is no
information about them. Had they been MP3s with partial information in the
ID3 tags then you could find software that would complete the tags, but
I assume this is not the case. Your best bet would be to write down the
musical notes of the songs, transcribe them to the C scale and use some
resource that indexes songs based on the first few musical notes of their
tune (like the Barlow - Morganstern Dictionary of Musical Themes or
Parsons "Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes", both for Classical music).
Nearly 10,000 themes from the Barlow - Morganstern Dictionary can be
searched online here by their starting notes (and can be entered in any key):
http://www.multimedialibrary.com/barlow/solfeggio.aspbut I don't know if there is a comparable resource for the genre you are
dealing with.
Gale Andrews
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