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I'll restart this again soon, but I've not been spending much time at the PC lately. I've also just started working on ripping my old tape collection to mp3, which is slow going. To do one rip takes as long as listening to the tape twice. Once to rip it, once to slice it into tracks. For albums where track divisons are clear I could probably speed the second pass up quite a bit by skipping ahead, but that's not always possible. Audacity even has tools to identify tracks and slice them automatically... but I've not messed with those just yet.
Then again, it is making some of the more \m/ METAL \m/ end of my music collection is going to become available for listening again. Which will be quite cool.
So, here's a few brief notes from in the midst of the tape ripping process for your general entertainment:
The Almighty - Soul Destruction
I'd forgotten how much I like this album. I should acquire it on CD at some point... or at least buy better quality (ie: not tape ripped) mp3s. I'd generally say it's more hard rock than metal, although it's a tough distinction to call. It's a good, old fashioned guitar-based rocker of a kind that we just don't see enough of these days. I have more albums from this lot on tape somewhere... I wonder where they are?
Curve - Horror Head EP
It's Curve, who are one of my favourite bands of all time, so of course I'm going to like this. "Falling Free" is a bit of a departure from the rest of the EP due to the thumping beat that sits behind it all, but it all still works.
Next...
I'm leaving my tape ripping device (basically a walkman with a usb connection and a built in soundcard) going whilst I wander off for lunch. I'm ripping "Copper Blue" and "Beaster" by Sugar (they're back to back on the same cassette). I'll follow them up with "File Under Easy Listening".
Then again, it is making some of the more \m/ METAL \m/ end of my music collection is going to become available for listening again. Which will be quite cool.
So, here's a few brief notes from in the midst of the tape ripping process for your general entertainment:
The Almighty - Soul Destruction
I'd forgotten how much I like this album. I should acquire it on CD at some point... or at least buy better quality (ie: not tape ripped) mp3s. I'd generally say it's more hard rock than metal, although it's a tough distinction to call. It's a good, old fashioned guitar-based rocker of a kind that we just don't see enough of these days. I have more albums from this lot on tape somewhere... I wonder where they are?
Curve - Horror Head EP
It's Curve, who are one of my favourite bands of all time, so of course I'm going to like this. "Falling Free" is a bit of a departure from the rest of the EP due to the thumping beat that sits behind it all, but it all still works.
Next...
I'm leaving my tape ripping device (basically a walkman with a usb connection and a built in soundcard) going whilst I wander off for lunch. I'm ripping "Copper Blue" and "Beaster" by Sugar (they're back to back on the same cassette). I'll follow them up with "File Under Easy Listening".
