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The Frugal Soundman

As the soundman and projectionist for myfolder into a master "Choir Songs" folder. Of
local church, I found it to be frustating andcourse, this all took some time, but so would
time consuming when searching for ahave cataloging all the songs and info into a
particular song among all our cds for choirdatabase.
practice. I was determined to sit down at
some point and catalog all those songs andThen I ran into a problem. Not being very
cd's. I took some time to search the Internetfamiliar with media players I was determined
for a simple, free database I could use forto find one that was small and easy to use.
this purpose. I even considered creating myAfter finding one I liked, I installed it on
own database but never quite got around tothe pc and simply dragged the song folder
it.into the playlist window. By double clicking
the first track the song began to play as it
One evening during choir practice, as I wasshould. The problem occurred when changing
searching for a particular cd, a friendtracks. Since each track contains a section
stopped by the sound booth and made anof the song, there needs to be a smooth,
interesting suggestion: rip all the songsundelayed transition between tracks in order
from the cd's and save them to my projectionto have no interruptions in the song.
computer. The idea sounded entirelyUnfortunately, this wasn't happening. There
plausible. Not only could I have thewere burps between the tracks that I couldn't
individual songs available in alphabeticalremove even by changing the buffer settings
order, I could also play them through thein the player. After more searching I found
sound board via the computer's audio out andanother media player with a buffer ahead
eliminate our stand-alone cd player for thissetting  that  played  the  song  perfectly.
purpose.
Since I am responsible for the sound as well
I gathered up several cds, took them home,as the projection of the songs' words on a
and ripped the songs from them. It was atscreen for the choir to read, this is an
this point I had to use a little creativity -excellent setup for me. I can have the
here's why. The choir's practice cd's areprojection software and the media player both
recorded in a different fashion than arunning on my computer's desktop screen. I
typical music cd. Each track is recorded withclick the play button to sart the music, then
two mono channels - vocals on the rightuse the keyboard to advance the slides with
channel and instruments on the left. Thisthe  song  lyrics.
allows the choir to hear how the song should
be sung with or without music, or to practiceInitially, I had some concerns about the
(and perform) with music only; simply bysound quality I would get by playing MP3
shutting  off  one  channel  or  the  other.files through a computer sound card, then
through the mixing board. After hearing the
Also, each song is divided up into sections,results I can tell you that I was very
each one being a separate track. In otherpleased. The sound was crisp and clear and
words, the first song on the cd might bethe reduced quality of the MP3 file was not
composed of tracks one through seven, thedistinguishable.
second song tracks eight through fourteen and
so on. This allows the choir director to goObviously, there are hard drive recorders
back to a specific point in the song andplayers on the market that are designed for
start again in order to work on a troublesomethese kinds of audio applications, but they
area.are somewhat expensive. If you already have a
fairly powerful computer in place for
To record the cd's, I would rip all theprojection, this method costs nothing (except
tracks of a single song and save those tracksfor a cable and some adapters to run from
(in MP3 format) in a folder with the name ofyour audio card to the mixing board). Give it
the song title. Then I'd do the same with thea try.
next song. I placed each individual song



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