aa1 Subj : The Instant Monty Python CD Collection Project To : All From : grimm Date : Tue Oct 14 2003 08:21 am From: grimm I recently purchased this 6 CD box set. Anyone familiar with this box set knows the great thing is that it includes 8 of the Pythons records. The bad thing is that they didn't bother to mark the tracks so that you could easily jump to a certain part of the album or easily create MP3's from them. For example CD one contains only three tracks. Track one is "Another Monty Python Record Side 1", track two is "Another Monty Python Record Side 2" and track three is "Monty Python's Previous Record Side 1" and so on. I knew there was a way to get around this but was hoping that someone else had already done the work for me. If they did I was never able to find it and so began the process myself. I'm posting this here so that if anyone else with these CD's is interested in doing this I can share the information with them and save them from doing the grunt work. Also if anyone with more experience doing this kind of thing then I might have some suggestions or see a way to cut out or optimize some of the steps. The "grunt work" I referred to is the creation of CUE files. A CUE file is a small text file containing track information for a CD including the track number, track name and track start time. Once you have the CUE file you can use a program to split what was one large track into multiple smaller tracks. This is ideal for converting to MP3's which was my main goal so that I could get them on my iPod. If you want you could also burn the now separated tracks back onto a CD-R and have a CD that will let you skip easily to a specific sketch. This will also let you burn one record per CD so you would end up with 8 separate CD's and then you can stash the originals for safe keeping. Here are the quick and dirty steps to doing this. You will need a free program called Exact Audio Copy found at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ or something like it. 1) Use EOC to extract each track to a WAV file. 2) Use EOC with the CUE sheet to split the WAV file into separate tracks 3a) Use EOC to convert the split wave files to MP3 files 3b) Or burn the split WAV files back onto a CD-R if that is your goal 4) Use another program to ID3 tag and rename the MP3's in your preferred format (I use the Super Tag feature in Music Match Jukebox). Is anyone with these CD's interested in trying this out? If so I will post the CUE files which are just text file less then 40 lines long each. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: FidoNet MONTE <--> alt.fan.monty-python (1:379/45) . 0