March, 2010 Archives
Mar
Metadata introduction and overview
by Mike Wells in Tutorials
Introduction:
Here are a few scenarios you are probably familiar with:
1) You buy a CD, bring it home and pop it into your Mac. iTunes opens and shows you all the information about the album. How did that happen?
2) You take that CD to work and pop it into your PC. Windows Media player opens, but now the album info doesn’t show. Why not?
3) You take that CD into your car, and your fancy new car stereo shows the song titles scrolling by. There it is again. How?
4) You just finished creating a CD of your band’s music, but when you put that CD into any of the above methods no information shows up. How do you get that type of info to appear for your band’s CD?
The information we’re referring to is called “Metadata” and this article will inform you as to the different types, and explain how to include metadata for your own release.
Mar
Making Reference Copies
by Mike Wells in Tutorials
Introduction:
Have you found yourself in any of these scenarios?
1) You have a CD of mixes for final review, and every band member wants a copy to hear the mix and give input.
2) You completed your mastering session, and each band member wants a copy of the final master reference CD.
3) You are waiting for your manufactured CDs to arrive, and friends/family wish to have copies of your mastered release.
To address these circumstances, the answer may seem simple: Make a playlist in iTunes, import the audio, and burn an audio CD.
Easy right? No, not quite.
While it seems easy enough, iTunes is not actually making a 1:1 copy of your reference CD, but rather it is making an approximation of the reference CD. To achieve a true 1:1 copy, the solution is to use a software application that supports the “Disc-At-Once” (DAO) protocol to create a genuine audio CD copy.
Mar
Transfering large audio files with FTP
by Mike Wells in Tutorials
A) Introduction:
This document has been written to be a guideline for anyone who would like to transfer audio files over the internet using FTP. The focus has been specifically directed to audio files, so that the audio engineering community (recording engineers, producers, musicians, recording and mastering studios) may supply a client with the needed FTP server information and this document, and the client may then perform the FTP transfer.
