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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:22:16 PDT
From: "Gary Wong" <wonggd@attglobal.net >
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Subject: SCOUG-Help: Fwd: LP's TO CD"S

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Does anybody have an answer for this gentleman?

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Hi Gary.

Thanks to a very good article that appeared in OS/2 Voice, I am converting
my old vinyl LP's to CD's, using AB.EXE and RSJ's CD-Writer for OS/2.

However, I've run into some problems. Sound tracks greater than 10 minutes
will not be saved using AB.EXE, which is a shame if you are converting a
live recording.

Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I've deduced that AB.EXE writes the
incoming sound file to memory, then when it is saved, writes it to disk.
As you are writing to disk, the disk free becomes smaller, then if one has
only 32MB RAM, this RAM is swapped to the hard disk again (my SWAPPER.DAT
was over 13MB in size.). There is no precision method for defining audio
input, or measuring VU levels during computer recording.

Maybe that's where Dink and PM123 come in. I did read somewhere that they
came together somehow, but do they write files in a better way, given that
AB.EXE is probably unchanged since 1994. Would they be able to compensate
for files > 10 minutes= >100MB, which suddenly have to be written to disk?
The way my HDD chatters, I cannot help thinking that I may be damaging it
in some way.

For the conversion of LP's or Open Reel Tapes to CD-s, do you think the
Dink/PM123 combination would be a better set up than good ol' AB.EXE,
(remembering that CD-Writer by RSJ can burn raw .WAV files to CD)? Can you
think of something better, or should I stick with what I've got?

Thanks in advance for your help and I look forward to your reply.

Regards

NICK

Nicholas Lysaght
Kelmscott, Western Australia
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