Recording Singles and 78s

The easiest way to record singles or 78s is to add each side of each single or 78 to your collection as a separate album. If you check the This is a single box in the Record window, VinylStudio will:

• automatically add a track with the same name as the album title (which is generally what you want)
• save this track to a folder called singles when you save your tracks as MP3 files (i.e. all such tracks go in the same folder)

Thus, for example, if you wanted to record Elvis Costello's Watching the Detectives, you would:

1. Check the This is a single box in the Record window
2. Add an 'album' to your collection with artist Elvis Costello and title Watching the Detectives; bear in mind that this album will consist of just the one track
3. Record the single (just the one side)
4. Tidy up the start and end markers for the track in the Split Tracks window window (to trim off the needle drop, lead in, lead out and needle lift)

This process is then repeated for the B side, and so on for your other singles until you have enough tracks recorded to burn a CD or save your tracks as MP3 files.

For EP's (remember those?), you can do the same thing and add the second track on each side manually in the Split Tracks window.

Recording Other Material with no Trackbreaks

If you had, say, a tape of an interview with The Dalai Lama, the procedure is much the same as recording one side of a single or 78. Thus you would:

1. Check the This is a single box in the Record window
2. Add an album to your collection with artist Joe Bloggs (that's you) and title Interview with the Dalai Lama
3. Record the tape
4. Tidy up the recording in the Split Tracks window window if you so wish; truncating the recording to remove any silence at the end will save you some disk space.
5. Burn the 'album' to CD (or save as an MP3 file)

How Singles Tracks are Named

When save your tracks as MP3 files, VinylStudio normally creates a separate folder for each album, like so:

My Documents
    My Music
        My Collection
            Beatles - The White Album
                01 - Back in the USSR.mp3
                02 - Dear Prudence.mp3
                ...

For singles however, all tracks are saved in the same folder, namely:

My Documents
    My Music
        My Collection
            Singles
                ...
                Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
                Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
                ...

Or maybe:

My Documents
    My Music
        My Collection
            Singles
                Joe Bloggs - Interview with the Dalai Lama
                Joe Bloggs - Interview with the Pope
                ...

He gets around, does Joe.

If you prefer not to have the artist's name prepended to these files, uncheck Include artist in folder names when saving tracks in the Configure dialog under the Options menu. Please note however that this will affect the names of the folders in which tracks are generated for all albums.

See also: Where are my Files Located?