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RE: What StephenJK just said....

This has turned into an interesting little thread.

Audacity . . . lots of manual work . . . inputting all the album metadata

Better by far IMHO to create metadata with a specialist program such as Tag&Rename which, with a script or two and disciplined file naming, does an album in a couple of seconds.

then finding album art for your computer audio player.

I confess I don't tag album "art" but Tag&Rename does handle it.

[Audacity] is not designed specifically for cleaning up vinyl.

Agreed - I use it only to split raw data into tracks. A while back, I bought ClickRepair which, whatever people say, can remove vinyl clicks automatically without degrading SQ. It's excellent though, if you buy the full suite (de-click, de-hum, de-noise and de-hiss), not particularly cheap.

Of course, you need to spend a little time setting it up but it's well worth the effort. You monitor the difference between input and output - if you hear anything except clicks, you're over-doing things. As you can imagine, you spend an hour tweaking this and adjusting that only to end up back at the default settings. The best de-noiser by far is of course an RCM.



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