WetGeek If it's self-created CD's you won't get a thumbnail or a name but you know this. I did so many in my heyday. Even commercially sold various artists cd's I have can't be fetched. I have a rare Verve jazz cd of a smokin' session with Nat King/Buddy Rich/and Lester Young (greatest sax player of all time imho) and not even Itunes (when I used back in the day) could fetch info/art for that.

I know all this is related to another thread you had. But this part isn't: I wonder if some of these hiccups are related to an era where is was all created Windows and some archaic encoding loses something in cross-platforming? Plus age of product. I don't know.

Also, it's a nice day to drive your car to the lake, crack a cold one, and turn up the volume, and whip out a lawn chair🙂

      WetGeek To be honest, Windows didn't handle this much better. It ripped the files to my remote share, but it named the album "Various artists," and merged them in with all the other "Various artists" from years ago.

      ----I remember this exactly in media player. Nothing has changed in the last 30 years for MS in that dept. apparently.

        brent I have a rare Verve jazz cd of a smokin' session with Nat King/Buddy Rich/and Lester Young

        During my senior year in HS, I played bari sax, cause the school owned one, and nobody else wanted to try marching with it. My nickname that year was Mulligan. Thanks to my years of piano lessons, I had no trouble with the bass clef.

            WetGeek Bari and tenor two different animals, good for you. Sax keys were not natural to me as clarinet keys (grade school) but that didn't last long. I was no good. Plus I fell in love with the blues harp.

                brent Sax keys were not natural to me as clarinet keys

                Just the opposite for me. The "octave key" on a sax moves you up by an octave, so the fingerings are the same. If I remember right, when I tried a clarinet, it only moved you up by a 5th.

                Plus, flute fingerings are the same as sax fingerings, opening up a whole 'nother adventure. And a flute embouchure is about the same as a horn embouchure, so one won't ruin you for the other. Go figure!

                Interestingly, the thumb valve on a double horn changes it from F to Bb, similar to a clarinet. I never had a problem with that. Dunno why the clarinet fingering was so hard for me to wrap my brain around.

                    WetGeek when I tried a clarinet, it only moved you up by a 5th.

                    I don't even remember the notes anymore.

                    WetGeek Plus, flute fingerings are the same as sax fingerings, opening up a whole 'nother adventure.

                    I never knew that. I'm going to listen to "Wild Thing" in a whole new light now. Only R&R song I ever heard with a flute solo.

                    WetGeek Dunno why the clarinet fingering was so hard for me to wrap my brain around.

                    Me either!. Channeling childhood memory, I think it was because both hands had similar functions instead of distinguishable functions like other instruments. I think.

                    Hohner Marine Band mouth harps were immune from these complications🙂

                            brent Hohner Marine Band mouth harps were immune from these complications🙂

                            For sure. I had one of those, too. I would have loved to have a chromonica, but at the time I was a kid without that kind of money.

                            Y'know, these posts don't have anything to do with ripping and burning CD's. Maybe it's time for a thread on musical instruments? Playing music?

                                WetGeek Y'know, these posts don't have anything to do with ripping and burning CD's. Maybe it's time for a thread on musical instruments? Playing music?

                                paging @Solarmass !

                                    brent BTW (!) everyone can start a new thread, make sure to select the right category 😉
                                    I just don't play any instruments and I don't create music. But recently I saw a video about some cool sound gadget ...

                                        Solarmass
                                        It seemed the right thing to scream at that time, although I was being presumptuous with your musical abilities. I have none either anymore but love the listening end more than anything.
                                        That said @WetGeek , I too have the sneaking suspicion the forum houses a lot of musicians.

                                          Solarmass everyone can start a new thread, make sure to select the right category

                                          The category would need to be Off Topic. Sort of like Song of the Day. @brent, I'll start a thread tomorrow. Right now, I'm about a minute away from bedtime, and I need to think about what I should say in that thread. Any thoughts about a good thread name?

                                              WetGeek too tired-eyed as well. musician talk? musician memories? it will be clearer in the morning. wife always told me for every decision, big or small, : "sleep on it, you will find your words tomorrow." It's great advice. I gotta give her that🙂

                                                  WetGeek Only way that I got audio cds to really work universal for car stereos was to use mp3 format make a playlist and burn them to a cd-r sometimes lowering the burn speed helps and use disk at once. But it didnt give song title just track numbers kinda just gave up on it myself and focused more on ripping for media device at home. and you cant just copy files to cd and burn you got to use a ripper because no info will be present to play disk. Am sure you know lot this. (just info) am sure there was a way to add tags but got burnt out on it

                                                    brent

                                                    Smart wife. I've been up for 45 minutes already, and I'm still having problems thinking of a good thread title. I need to wake up a little more, I guess. The best I could come up with so far is something like Playing Music, but I'm not entirely happy with that.

                                                      I think I may have found something that will help me in my quest to create duplicate audio CDs for use in my car. There are a lot of detailed instructions for three methods that will possibly work, and I plan to give it another shot Real Soon Now. In the meantime, I'll post the link here, in case anyone else is interested.

                                                        WetGeek I think I may have found something that will help me in my quest to create duplicate audio CDs for use in my car.

                                                        Indeed! I followed the first set of instructions (quite simple) for ripping with Asunder, and the results look great. Here's a bit of the listing in Dolphin:

                                                        I selected mp3 as the output, at a bitrate of 320 bits per second, and Asunder automatically included a set of lossy, but small, ogg files. Now that they're stored correctly, with the right album name and everything, it will be no challenge to burn them to a CD-R using k3b.

                                                        A bit later:

                                                        I can report total success, so far. When I burned the CD-R, k3b only allowed me to select the .ogg files from that stash on the remote share, but for use in my car, ultimate sound quality isn't needed. I'm just hoping that the car stereo will be happy with .ogg files. Now that I know the process is easy, and it works well, I can make whatever changes are needed to insure that the results work in my car.

                                                        And still still later:

                                                        It's 35 degrees outside currently, but I could't wait. I ran out to the car (still in my pajamas) and tried the CD I'd just created. My car stereo was just fine with the .ogg files. And the sound was great. I might not have even gotten those .mp3 files to fit on a CD, given their sizes, so I guess k3b knew what it was doing better than I did.

                                                            WetGeek I guess k3b knew what it was doing better than I did.

                                                            Actually, it didn't. In the encoding options, .ogg had been selected as the default. The first time I tried this, I selected .mp3, but in my haste I'd forgotten to unselect .ogg. So both formats were produced, as in the image above.

                                                            If you want to try this method, there's a little k3b gotcha you need to know about. For my second attempt, I selected the files to write using k3b, and it balked, telling me that remote shares are not supported. Then I remembered that the first time, I'd selected the tracks in Dolphin, right-clicked, and selected Create an audio CD in k3b from the context menu. For some reason, that works where selecting the files from k3b itself doesn't work. Go figure!

                                                                WetGeek the thing with these specific rip/burn applications is the learning curve and ibuprofen. Wonder if a search i snap or flatpak would find a better tool?

                                                                    brent the thing with these specific rip/burn applications is the learning curve and ibuprofen.

                                                                    Actually, I'd encourage you to give it a try, if you need to copy some audio CDs. It's really not complicated. I boils down to just two steps:

                                                                    (1) Rip the files to a hard drive using Asunder (in the repository)
                                                                    (2) Burn those files to a blank CD-R using k3b

                                                                    If you decide to try it, and have any questions, just ask. I've completed about 15 CDs now.

                                                                        Always good see something work for someone man last time I ripped any audio cd been 10 years ago..lol
                                                                        Software changes so much in that time frame..lol Learned something to didnt know they would play .ogg