[Gllug] Editing .wav of vinyl record into tracks

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Thu Jul 10 13:11:50 UTC 2008


Dylan wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008, John Winters wrote:
>> I'm trying to copy some of my old vinyl records to a digital form and
>> find to my surprise that not only do they not have a digital ID, they're
>> not even split into tracks.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a simple tool to chop a .wav of a vinyl record into
>> individual tracks?
> 
> I've tried gramophile with some success, but it chokes if the vinyl is too 
> noisy, or the tracks are too close together or have quiet sections or 
> silences. The only tool I've found up to the job is a real person using 
> Audacity. You can usually see where the track boundaries are approximately 
> and I copy out the chunks overlapping the preceding and following track. Then 
> I clean up each individual track. Don't do noise reduction or click removal 
> on the entire album - do it a track at a time since the noise profile changes 
> significantly through the length of the record and the results become 
> distorted if you try to do too much at once.

Thank you - those are just the pointers I need.

Cheers,
John

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