RE: arsclist CD access copies

[Doug.Boyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

In a perfect world the tracks would always coincide with the subject
changes, however, if you have 8,000 recordings and you are only one person,
regular intervals is the best bet. I place tracks at regular intervals on
the user copies and have also chosen 5 minute intervals.  For you Windows
folks, Sonic Foundry has ressurected their program CD Architect ($199) which
is an excellent pro level Audio CD mastering program (very user
friendly)making custom tracking and final mastering quite easy.    

I just purchased the new Marantz CDR300 field recorder which records to
cd-r.  It has a tracking feature called 
"minute track" which automatically places marks on the minute throughout the
original field recording. It could be useful.

Doug Boyd   
Senior Archivist
Oral History and Folklife Collection
Kentucky Oral History Commission
Kentucky Historical Society

-----Original Message-----
From: andy kolovos [mailto:akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:57 AM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: arsclist CD access copies



Ok, well now that we've touched on the topic of CD access copies, I have a
general question for folks out there who are using CD for access copies of
audio interviews. If you record an entire interview to CD without adding
track breaks of any sort, the only way to reach a particular point the
recording is either to listen to the whole interview until you reach the
desired point or hold down the "search" button and shuffle through the
entire recording--assuming, of course, one's listening room CD players even
have a search button.  This is, unless one inserts track marks on to the
disc at various intervals or to mark significant points.  

My instinct is to place track marks at timed intervals--lets say every 5 or
so minutes of a recording--without any silence between them, across the
duration of the interview.  This would allow a patron to skip ahead a bit
more quickly than he or she would be able to if they had to hold down the
search button to do the same thing. If I were to place tracks at
"significant" points in the interview, I would be the one deciding what was
"significant"--and I would rather have patrons decide on their own what
they find significant in or about a particular interview.

What are those of you out there who are using CD for access to interviews
doing?  Has anyone discussed a developing a "best practice" in this regard?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

thanks,

andy
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Andy Kolovos
Archivst/Folklorist
Vermont Folklife Center
P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-4964
akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org

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