Hi, I've been using SIA for a little while now with really good success. However, I have an issue and I'm not sure if there's a good solution other than starting over.
When I record my albums, I don't have time to monitor them to make sure every track recorded without skips. I've recorded about 30 albums so far but have discovered after listening on my mp3 player that a couple of them have skips in a particular track.
I make both mp3s and CDs of each album that I convert. What's the best way to fix the offending tracks? I'd like to fix it both for my mp3 player and re-burn the CD with the fixed track. Is there a way to do this without starting over from the top? Thanks.
How do you fix a bad track?
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Hi
Often there is a track or 2 that was played more that the others. And no amount of SIA can fix it.
What I do is, turn to Itunes. I download the song and save it to the same folder that I made for the record. I delete the bad copy and rename and renumber the Itunes song. Works great. You can't fix junk; just replace it.
For 99 cents and a little time and much less STRESS, I get a good finished product. You can search your Library first if you like. Sometimes you have the song in a collection that you can drop a copy into the album.
Good Luck
Don
Often there is a track or 2 that was played more that the others. And no amount of SIA can fix it.
What I do is, turn to Itunes. I download the song and save it to the same folder that I made for the record. I delete the bad copy and rename and renumber the Itunes song. Works great. You can't fix junk; just replace it.
For 99 cents and a little time and much less STRESS, I get a good finished product. You can search your Library first if you like. Sometimes you have the song in a collection that you can drop a copy into the album.
Good Luck
Don
Thanks for your reply, Don.
The albums and tunes (jazz) I'm converting aren't available on iTunes. I know I have to try cleaning the album better and maybe weight the stylus heavier to fix the skip in my recording.
My question is more of once I have a clean version of the track recorded, how do I integrate it into a CD with the other good tracks and replace the offending track on my mp3 player?
The albums and tunes (jazz) I'm converting aren't available on iTunes. I know I have to try cleaning the album better and maybe weight the stylus heavier to fix the skip in my recording.
My question is more of once I have a clean version of the track recorded, how do I integrate it into a CD with the other good tracks and replace the offending track on my mp3 player?
I think I understand how I could replace the mp3 file by re-recording the track and then making it into an mp3 files with SIA and then replacing it. But, I don't see how I can recreate a new CD replacing the offending track.
Well, maybe I do but it would have to be outside of SIA. I guess I could use SIA to make all the tracks into wav files plus make the newly recorded track into a wav file and replace the original file with the skip in it. Then using an external program I could burn the wav files onto a CD.
Well, maybe I do but it would have to be outside of SIA. I guess I could use SIA to make all the tracks into wav files plus make the newly recorded track into a wav file and replace the original file with the skip in it. Then using an external program I could burn the wav files onto a CD.
I just wanted to follow up that I was able to fix my bad tracks by re-recording them in SIA and then making wav and mp3 versions.
I could then replace the mp3 versions in iTunes for my mp3 player.
As far as the CD, I had to make wav files from the original recording and replace the bad track with the re-recorded wav file. Then, import this wav version of the CD into iTunes where I could burn a new CD with the fixed track. Then go back and delete the wav version of the album (I still had the mp3 version).
I wish there was a feature built into SIA to make this process easier to replace bad tracks.
I could then replace the mp3 versions in iTunes for my mp3 player.
As far as the CD, I had to make wav files from the original recording and replace the bad track with the re-recorded wav file. Then, import this wav version of the CD into iTunes where I could burn a new CD with the fixed track. Then go back and delete the wav version of the album (I still had the mp3 version).
I wish there was a feature built into SIA to make this process easier to replace bad tracks.
Hi
The Key is to catch it before you make the CD. If I have been away from the computer while the music was recording, I spot test about 5 places in each song to see if there might be a problem. Also, I have carefully looked at the record with a magnifying glass while I am deep cleaning it. I then know to listen more carefully at any suspect point.
Don
The Key is to catch it before you make the CD. If I have been away from the computer while the music was recording, I spot test about 5 places in each song to see if there might be a problem. Also, I have carefully looked at the record with a magnifying glass while I am deep cleaning it. I then know to listen more carefully at any suspect point.
Don