[TheForge] Re: cutting steel and Bloodrock

[debmiller at fuse.net]

One can dream right......

I'll have to try the rca to miniplug trick with my MAC
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> From: TristerK at aol.com
> Date: 2005/06/15 Wed PM 01:15:53 EDT
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: cutting steel and Bloodrock
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> A stereo rca to stereo miniplug cable from radio shack ($6 - $7) will  let 
> you plug your sound system's amp into the audio in on your computer, then  use 
> an application like "Advanced MP3 WMA Recorder" (doanload a trial version,  pay 
> the $20 if you get it working (there are lots of other applications that do  
> this, this one worked for me)) to capture the incoming audio stream to an mp3  
> (small) or WMA (huge but better quality) file. I've been doing this for a 
> while  now and it really was very easy to set up and the process itself is just a 
>  matter of typeing a file name, starting the record and hitting the record 
> button  on the screen.The down side is that it happens in real time - you have 
> to  play the record to record it, but there's really no way around that. The 
> other  minor problem is that, unless you really want to work at the recording  
> process (starting and stopping, typeing filenames) you end up with two files 
> per  album, side one and side two. For myself, I just leave it this way - for 
> friends  I have used an editing tool to chop them up into individual songs (I 
> like Cool  Edit Pro, there are free audio editors out there).
> This is easy and legal to do for yourself, but I expect that any business  
> that got big enough to reap the benifits of scale (since it's a realtime process 
>  you'd need to do many at once in order to charge a reasonable amount for the 
>  service) would likely attract the attention of the RIAA and you'd need deep  
> pockets and good lawyers to cope with that - not worth it in the long run 
> from a  business standpoint.
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