johnadams, I for one would love to see this type of site go up as well, for the same reason M Ted mentions and also to share other live folk club recordings, etc.

There is a new project called "Voices in the Attic" proposed by a member of the Traditional Song Forum. This project imitates something I'm already engaged in and so we're looking at joining forces, and gathering others with a similar interest to help institute a repository of recordings with a view to making as much as possible available via the internet (legal copyrights being the main factor). The intention is, in the first instance, to unearth older recordings that need safeguarding and then seek to deal with newer recordings as a contemporary archive. Early days but I'll keep folk informed of any developments.

This thread has brought up a host of questions for me as a new owner of an Edirol R-09 and a fairly green consumer and user/editor of digital music.

For those who are making 24bit/48kHz uncompressed WAV recordings, how does one get them onto CD? Do they need to be compressed to 44.1kHz?

"Compressed" is the wrong word. 24bit/48kHz is uncompressed and so is 16bit/44.1kHz which is what CDs use. They are just different sample rates. Mp3s, real and wa are compressed to take up less storage space. You need to change whatever you've got to AIFF interleaved 16bit/44.1kHz to go to CD. There are lots of programme that will do that depending on your platform.


Where do you store them on your computer, and what media player do you use to play them?

I store them all over the bloody shop, particularly in places where I can't find them again!! I SHOULD store them in a folder on my Mac hard drive called 'music'.

I've noticed there are differences between iTunes and RealPlayer and Windows Media Player in terms of the ability to convert WAV files to mp3, or to compress a large WAV to a smaller WAV, a large mp3 to a smaller one, etc.

iTunes is more of a music listening system than a serious editing or manipulation package. I'm sure there are things it can do but I just use it to play background music when I'm working.

Real Player can't, as far as I know, do any converting. Real Producer is the programme that produces Real Audio (but only on the PC) and there is a free version and a full version.

Windows Media is something I've never had to deal with and I know little about it but I'm sure there's a lot of expertise on Mudcat.

I use a range of software on my Mac and if you're interested I can expand.

Otherwise the PC brigade will provide lots of good advice.

J