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#1

Technical Support / Re: Turntable recommendations ...

Last post by Lewis - Today at 10:28:21 AM

I can recommend the IFI phono preamp also.

Hi. If you imply the Zen Phone, an affordable thing to start with, I suppose noisy things (unless its balanced output is used) will do the bad thing.
The OP should use an controllable input ADC IYKWIM.

#2

Technical Support / Re: Turntable recommendations ...

Last post by LtMandella - Today at 07:00:49 AM

Ahh! Wonder why that never turned up in any of my searches? Looks like just the thing. I appreciate your response!

I can recommend the IFI phono preamp also.  It supports both moving magnet and moving coil cartridges and has a highly useful rumble filter.  I use it with a MusicHall MF 7.1 tt.  Sounds wonderful. That cartridge and preamp combination beat my Grado gold/Creek preamp by a lot...

#3

General Discussion / Anyone else digitizing Open Re...

Last post by LtMandella - Today at 06:37:20 AM

Am I the only dinosaur still listening - and loving - my reel to reel collection of tapes (and tape decks).

Obviously not many clicks to have to deal with, or media cleaning.  On the other hand, definitely need to clean and demagnetize the transport and heads on a regular basis.

And I have yet to scratch a tape although I can tear up the ends when mounting for playback. 

I had 4 pioneer decks but sold them, the electronics are too problematic.  The Sony's are more reliable electronically, although they do need mechanical maintenance (99% just cleaning and lubing).

Anyway, the tapes and decks sound great when in good repair...


here's a shot of my hifi work area for digitizing...

#4

Technical Support / Re: Clicks introduced By Vinyl...

Last post by LtMandella - Today at 05:12:07 AM

[[The code is actually quite clever, but wasn't working as intended.]]

Those two tend to go together in my experience...   

By  the way, I am experiencing similiar (perhaps same?) issue digitizing with Soundblaster Z SE.

Will a fix be generally available?

thanks,
LT

#5

Technical Support / Re: Not saving

Last post by Sonvolt - May 07, 2024, 07:25:15 PM

Hi, Additional screenshots sent in email. Screenshot of attempting to save tracks attached.

Advise if any more info required.

Regards
Ken

#6

Technical Support / Re: Mac App Store Version and ...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - May 06, 2024, 08:41:02 PM

Hello again,

This is just a quick update that Apple have now responded to our support request and cleared the blockage.  We will update the App Store version soon (just killing off a few last bugs, please bear with us)

#7

Technical Support / Re: Not saving

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - May 06, 2024, 08:01:46 PM

Hello again,

I can't reproduce this.  Can I have a couple more screenshots please?

1.  VinylStudio's Split Tracks window for that album

2.  Select Menu -> Album -> Remove Recordings and send me a screenshot of that (don't actually delete anything!)

Thanks.

#8

Technical Support / Re: Feature Request - Folder S...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - May 01, 2024, 09:07:16 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your post.

We won't be changing this I'm afraid - too much effort for too little gain.

The files are already ordered by album name within artist name, so you're halfway there.

- Paul

#9

Technical Support / Feature Request - Folder Sorti...

Last post by DexVinyl - May 01, 2024, 08:52:05 AM

Hi All,

Long time user, first time poster!

Thanks for the excellent software Paul, I have a suggestion for a technically very minor improvement, but the quality of life improvement for us users would be huge! (at least in my opinion).

When we are setting up VS, we set a folder structure we would like to use for the split tracks usually something like [artist] / [album] / .....  I think it would be extremely useful, if by default, the same structure was used to store the "sides" in the relevant location.  (will use this structure for the examples here as it matches my choice in the app)

eg: I have drive `R` for the Records, and drive `T` for Tracks. 
At the moment, all the sides are saved in R:\Vinyl Collection\ [filename].flac
Whereas, using this suggestion, they would be saved in R:\Vinyl Collection\ [artist] \ [album] \ [filename].flac
and my split tracks are saved in T:\ [artist] \ [album] \ [track name].mp3

Having the two folder structures matching, is actually sensible, by default, because, moving the files to make the folder tidier, causes all manner of errors on startup, and you then have to mess around relocating the files. 

edit: I forgot to add the T drive location

#10

Technical Support / Re: recording not stopping on ...

Last post by Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) - April 26, 2024, 10:52:57 PM

Hi,

Yes, we did make a change, and that helped a lot of people but not everyone.  We'll add new setting ('Needle up threshold') in the next version to address this.