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Swan_Knight
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« on: 18:35:22, 30-10-2007 »
Has anyone else been here?

The story: you own approximately half of an album via another format (compilation CD, etc)...the opportunity falls to you to acquire the rest of it via a download site.  The problem is, you cannot replicate the original sequence of the album, as the tracks have different 'position' numbers on the two CDs....dragging and dropping doesn't seem to work and I don't seem to have the option of changing the 'number' of the track, the way I can change its source name.

Clear as mud? Anyone any ideas? Or do I just have to reconcile myself to a 'different' track sequence than the makers intended?
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« Reply #1 on: 06:22:17, 27-01-2008 »
It sounds like you need to modify the music files metadata, in this case its 'track information'.

Most media players e.g. 'Itunes', 'Windows Media Player', etc should allow you to change the appropriate 'tags' when you select the songs properties.
 
If you are using Windows, then there is a program, 'Mp3 Book Helper', that allows these tasks to be done individually as well as in bulk. This should save you a lot of time. You can get this program from the following weblink: http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

The best thing is that, it is Open source hence absolutely free.
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« Reply #2 on: 08:52:24, 27-01-2008 »
I may be out of my depth here. 

In itunes it is possible to alter all the info for any tracks, including the track number.  If you add a track, then you need to change the numbering of all the other tracks, and the total number of tracks for all the tracks.  (ie.  You have 12 tracks.  You want to add a track after, say position 5.  You need to change the details of all the tracks with now a total of 13 tracks rather than 12.  Call the new track 6 out of 13.  Alter the previous 6 to 7, 7 to 8 etc.)

I don't know if that's what you  had in mind.
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« Reply #3 on: 19:06:05, 19-02-2008 »
Just downloaded free FLACs of the Brandenburgs from http://www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur/download_eng which was linked to from a message at TOP. Not listened to them yet, but others might also like to investigate. All legal and above board.
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Andy D
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« Reply #4 on: 00:28:50, 20-02-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 19:06:05, 19-02-2008
Just downloaded free FLACs of the Brandenburgs from http://www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur/download_eng which was linked to from a message at TOP. Not listened to them yet, but others might also like to investigate. All legal and above board.

Thanks for the link Bryn, I'm downloading the FLACs now.
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Andy D
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« Reply #5 on: 11:05:52, 20-02-2008 »
I've never used FLAC files before so I had to hunt around for something to play them. Winamp does, so I'm using that, though I've never been too keen on it.

I've been looking at MediaMonkey, since this has been recommended on this forum before, but I've discovered that it doesn't support ATRAC3plus, the Sony format, and I've got a lot of those on my PC, items imported from minidiscs. Windows Media Player will play them however (and SonicStage of course). So it looks as if I'll have to continue using different software for different codecs Angry

Audacity supports FLAC importing (as it should) but you don't seem to be able to save in this format.
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richard barrett
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« Reply #6 on: 11:09:49, 20-02-2008 »
What I do with FLACs is to unpack them into AIFFs (there are several freely downloadable programs to do this, no matter which platform you're using) after which they can of course be turned into audio CDs or played using pretty much any soundfile player.
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Bryn
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« Reply #7 on: 19:51:53, 06-03-2008 »
Not necessarily quite as legit as the Polish Brandenburgs, but somebody has posted mp3s of a 2006 Hamburg performance of Penderecki's Lukas Passion, (presumably from a radio broadcast), on alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classical. You need appropriate newsreader software to download them reliably, and they are only likely to remain there a few days, or so, but for anyone that way inclined ...
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Bryn
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« Reply #8 on: 23:37:37, 06-03-2008 »
Just a word of warning re. the Penderecki download. The mp3s are encoded at 256kbps. However, the sample rate is 48ksps (kHz), so if you want to burn to a CD-R (it will fit on a single 80 minute disc), you will have to down-sample, with anti-alias filtering, to 44.1k first.
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