Yesterday:
Sigh. Audacity crashed after a tape I was recording ended, but before I got back to shut it off, and although I could see the files, I couldn’t recover them.
Trying to figure out how, though, led me to discover that there’s a newer version of Audacity available, and according to the forum this one does not have that particular form of crash — they fixed it! So I upgraded, but by then there wasn’t time to re-record the tape, so nothing was finished yesterday.
The new version has some very visible differences; I’m assuming they didn’t mess up anything I liked. So far, the changes I’ve seen are either neutral or improvements, except for the esthetics of certain windows.
It’s taking me a little while to get used to it, but I can see that once I’ve adjusted, this version will be better.
Later:
I’ve done Side 2 of the tape Larry Boyd sent with a Misfits album on Side 1; Side 2 has stuff by the Angry Samoans, Flipper, Motorhead, Agent Orange, Suicidal Tendencies, and Disarray. I’m getting an education in early punk.
My favorite remains “They Saved Hitler’s Cock,” by the Angry Samoans.
No real problems with copying and editing — I filtered out some noise with no problem at all. I think that was easier and worked better than with the old version of Audacity. The only small glitch was that some cuts came out at lower volume than they should have, but that’s an easy fix in iTunes.
Today:
Huh. Turns out that the first side is not simply a Misfits album; Larry fooled me, as it starts off just being “Walk Among Us, then veers off halfway through. It’s about half of “Walk Among Us,” three cuts off “Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood,” all three songs from the “Die, Die My Darling” single (punk songs tend to be really short, and the B side of the single has two songs), and two of the three songs from “3 Hits from Hell.”
(Actually, the cassette version of “Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood” included the three cuts off “Die, Die My Darling,” and that’s probably where Larry got ’em, but I really like the cover of the single, so I went by the LP versions in categorizing them.)
So I now have sixteen Misfits tracks, and two more very short ones by the Angry Samoans (from “Back from Samoa,” as were all the Samoans songs on Side 2) that got squeezed in at the end. And it all fit on one side of a C-60 tape.
I’m getting to like the updated Audacity, by the way, as I learn the shortcuts. It handles metadata better, seems more stable, is maybe even a little faster in processing stuff.