[78-L] Complete sets [was New Sons of the Pioneers box]

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Complete box sets are a double-edged sword. You want them, but, on the
> other hand, you don't want to play them!
> You might use them to play at parties, but then you're going to confuse
> party-goers after they've heard five near-identical takes of one tune! I
> find it difficult to find a single CD to play at parties--there's nearly
> always one track that destroys the mood. A few years back I played most
> of the Milton Brown Texas Rose set at a New Year's eve party. Normally,
> I would edit out the waltzes and sentimental ballads, but I was playing
> it on a DVD player through the TV, without easy edit facilities, so they
> had to stay in. The following year I chose tenor-and-organ records as
> the theme, and that worked much better.
> Perhaps someone will invent a CD player with a memory, i.e. one that
> remembers which tracks you've skipped on a particular CD, and play it
> that way next time.
> I notice Mosaic have started moving away from complete sets (e.g.
> Goodman and Shaw).
>
There's a fairly simple and easy "work-around" for this! Most of the 
CD-playing
programs, including the one that comes with Windows, will happily save all 
the
tracks on the disc you are playing, thus creating a "music archive" on your 
HD.
Having done that, you can then select tracks and "burn" them to 
CD...resulting
in a playable CD containing only the tracks you selected!

If my idea/thought of feeding the output of my 78 player into my computer's
"Line In" jack works, I'll be able to save selected 78 content...from which 
I can
then choose the sides I want on home-made CD's (which I can the copy as
often as I see fit!). Since feeding the signal into my sound card produces
digital copies of the 78's I play...I can (in theory) create historic CD's 
that
SHOULD have been issued (but never were, and probably never will be?)!

OTOH, I may be the only person extant who would be interested in "Henry
Burr's Greatest Hits"...?!

Steven C. Barr