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

[David Lennick]

My Marantz CD player also has a "program" function, as I'm sure do many 
players, enabling you to select an order you like before transferring to 
another medium. One problem is that it tends to ignore the ramp-up time on the 
tracks you select, so gaps between songs may be much shorter than normal.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- 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 
>