[78-L] playing and organizing digital music, was: Help identifying an artist/tune

[buster]

Oh, i'd somehow gotten the impression that you were one of the  
transfer/restorer mavens on here.  No worries.

But for anyone of us who does have a growing number of digital music  
files and is seeking an easy way to manage them, iTunes may work - and  
it's free.  It's essentially a relational database which lets you add  
or edit just about any metadata you'd care to, onto an audio file  
("album art" included - just drag and drop whatever image you'd like  
to associate with the song).  And then you can instantly search or  
sort on any of the metadata - a date, a title, a fragment of a name,  
length, bitrate, etc.  And you can organize the music into groupings  
of your own choosing - "playlists" - and use your computer as a  
digital jukebox.  No needles to change, no victor 10-50 needed.  And  
did i say "free"?

-- buster

On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:27 PM, David Lennick wrote:

> In this case, it installed itself (or I inadvertently installed it)  
> when I
> opened the particular file. Thereafter, any links I tried to open or  
> even old
> ones I'd stored would default to QuackTime and not play properly.  
> Repeated
> attempts to remove it failed to work..only when the whole computer  
> needed a
> major overhaul was I finally rid of it. It may be great for some  
> purposes, but
> since I'm not a download kind of guy and don't keep libraries of  
> tunes (I don't
> even own an ipod), it's not for me.
>
> dl
>
> buster wrote:
>> oops, sorry.  was only trying to help, as it would appear that the
>> microsoft solution isn't working for you.
>>
>> Quicktime wouldn't have "come in with a file" though - you would have
>> needed to install it.
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:12 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>> QUICKTIME TOOK ME A YEAR TO GET RID OF! Sorry for yelling, but that
>>> program is
>>> a disaster..overrides everything else. It came in once with a file
>>> and planted
>>> itself in my computer and never worked properly on anything. I'll
>>> pass.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> buster wrote:
>>>> here's your answer:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
>>>>
>>>> Quicktime will read and play any audio file except Real.  works on
>>>> both windows machines and macs.
>>>>
>>>> or you can also download and install iTunes, which adds the
>>>> capability
>>>> to manage and search your music/mp3 collection easily.
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:56 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can't check the MP3s..same problem, they open in Windows MP which
>>>>> just sits
>>>>> there like a lox. I wonder if the files have been mis-titled?
>>>>> Anyway, you got
>>>>> the info..both None But the Lonely Heart and Melody of Love are on
>>>>> the same
>>>>> Victor 78, recorded in Chicago in 1941. (And I'm in the middle of
>>>>> other audio
>>>>> transfers so I can't try opening the files elsewhere.)
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrea Walsh wrote:
>>>>>> The one Hawthorne plays is "None But The Lonely Heart"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WOW, thanks!  I can't wait to tell my Hartorn buddies I solved  
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> mystery!
>>>>>> (yeah I'll admit I got help, heh...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks guys!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrea
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM, David Lennick
>>>>>> <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrea Walsh wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hmmm Ok, so if I wanted to find that record, should I look  
>>>>>>>> for a
>>>>>>>> Victor
>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>> Wayne King and his Orchestra, or Franklyn MacCormick?  And the
>>>>>>>> title
>>>>>>>> officially is "Melody Of Love"?  Just clarifying...
>>>>>>> Yup, Wayne King: Melody of Love. Lookee here..and download.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.virtualvictrola.com/wayne_king/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dl
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