I hope this is okay for me to post in here. It’s about music :)

So I’m currently digitizing my records. This is easy to do for CDs. I got myself a dvd drive and just rip them to flac files on my computer. Tagging is easy too pulling the data from music brainz. Vinyl records are a little bit of a different story though because for each side of a record I get one long audio file. Splitting up the files to individual tracks is a very tedious process. I’m currently doing that manually with audacity and then exporting them to flac files.

Does anyone have an idea to do that more easily? Maybe even automate parts of the process. After all music brainz has all the track lenghts available. So in theory it should be possible to automate this to some degree.

Any ideas are welcome. Thank you.

  •  Silvercloudfox   ( @silvercloudfox@libranet.de ) 
    1•1 year ago

    @honk I suspect that may be pushing the bounds of what may be currently doable with Audacity unless you explore the realms of plugins or create your own, possibly worth reaching out to the developers of audacity over at GitHub? (Certainly not a “quick” thing to develop unless someone happens to be working on this already)
    Only other thing I can think of may be to explore other software options such as Vinyl studio or Pure vinyl. Probably not free and whether actually worth it is debatable.
    Only other option I can think of is to ask a third party (or parties) to do the work on your behalf - again likely not cheap unless you have some really good friends 😁
    Of course the purists might argue that you are moving away from the sense of the original recording (one long track) but I can wholly appropriate why you want to do it. I do feel your pain though, just sorry I don’t have any easier answers 😕