Need to add to my library fast
Need to add to my library fast
My library right sits at 2554 songs with a few duplicates in there. I want to expand it but am not positive how I am going to do it. The GEM series is tempting (2700 songs at 310 down and 160 a month for 12 months), but I also have a way of getting over 5000 songs via Supercdg's (DK and Nutech). is quality of songs really that important or is having a larger library more appealing to a prospective venue. I might add that the DK and Nutech library would lend me a better chance of getting family friendly venues as they have very few f-bomb songs in them. To use them I would have to purchase a converter (already considering RoxBox's converter) for superCDG's. There would be a huge difference in quality of rips because most supercdg's are ripped at 128 when the gem series and the rest of my library are ripped at 320.
It depends on if you want newer music or not.
Is DK still in business or is it all their old discs?
I would say that sound/song quality comes into play. I remember when we had to get picky about which companies we bought from. That's why most of the bad companies aren't around anymore. nobody wanted their stuff.
The entire DK set would give you about 2500 songs. How many dupes that would be I don't have a clue. I don't believe DK ever put dupes on discs. Now what Supercore did with them God only knows. Sound Choice recycles everything they can.
I'm not familiar with the New Core and Nutech sets. I only have a few of those discs.
DK always was a quality company. My first choice of songs was always Pioneer then DK. That was before Sound Choice came into the game. I still play many DK songs as my first choice. They have some exclusive songs.
How much is the super core set? If you buy the SC Gem set you will still have dupes. You will have dupes no matter which way you go.
Can't you get the DK set without super sizing? I don't have any songs of my 12,000 songs ripped at 320.
Is DK still in business or is it all their old discs?
I would say that sound/song quality comes into play. I remember when we had to get picky about which companies we bought from. That's why most of the bad companies aren't around anymore. nobody wanted their stuff.
The entire DK set would give you about 2500 songs. How many dupes that would be I don't have a clue. I don't believe DK ever put dupes on discs. Now what Supercore did with them God only knows. Sound Choice recycles everything they can.
I'm not familiar with the New Core and Nutech sets. I only have a few of those discs.
DK always was a quality company. My first choice of songs was always Pioneer then DK. That was before Sound Choice came into the game. I still play many DK songs as my first choice. They have some exclusive songs.
How much is the super core set? If you buy the SC Gem set you will still have dupes. You will have dupes no matter which way you go.
Can't you get the DK set without super sizing? I don't have any songs of my 12,000 songs ripped at 320.
They have songs up to today on both sets. my song list went from 34 pages to 91 with my dupe remover setting on with the DK/NUtech sets. The GEM series came out to 68 pages with the dupe remover on. The real negative is that in 5 years I would have to pay up to $100 to remain within their licensing agreement on the GEM series where The DK?NUTECH set is one time purchase.
Re: Need to add to my library fast
Disagree completely on this point.DanG2006 wrote:There would be a huge difference in quality of rips because most supercdg's are ripped at 128 when the gem series and the rest of my library are ripped at 320.
128kB/s conversion is regarded as standard CD quality and 320kB/s is simply overkill.
99.9999% of the general population will NOT be able to tell the difference and I include myself in that percentage.
Sandy
Re: Need to add to my library fast
Have you listened to music ripped from a SCDG disc? I have and the sound quality sucks. Even though 128 kbs is "supposedly" CD quality many people, myself included, can hear the loss in quality from the original sound track. All my music ripped to 256 kbs. Hard drive space is cheap, poor sound quality isn't.mnementh wrote:Disagree completely on this point.DanG2006 wrote:There would be a huge difference in quality of rips because most supercdg's are ripped at 128 when the gem series and the rest of my library are ripped at 320.
128kB/s conversion is regarded as standard CD quality and 320kB/s is simply overkill.
99.9999% of the general population will NOT be able to tell the difference and I include myself in that percentage.
Sandy
The more I read the license agreement to the GEM Series the more inclined I become to go the supercdg route. One of the pieces is that you agree to allowing them to audit you not only the discs but your accounting practices as well at any point in time they get the idea that you might have broken the agreement which is godd for five years after which you have to pay them more money up to $100 to continue using the sets.
No but some creative EQing and a good sound system can can make it sound better than a crap system.wiseguy wrote:No sound system can replace the audio information lost from overly compressing audio data.
Before I was totally convinced to go the computer route a KJ brought his computer to one of my shows and I ran it all night through my system. He is a typical I want to do it as cheap as possible KJ. I'm sure he didn't have the best sound card available. But with some EQ tweaking I had it sounding really good. So I was convinced from that test that by having a good sound card and computer I could and would be very happy with the sound. And I am. Nobody ever noticed any sound difference when I switched from discs to computer. Which is the way it should be. That includes the lesser bit rate issue between the discs and the rips.
The only thing you can do with a crap system is sound crappy. PERIOD.
And the bit rate won't matter. You'll just have more bits to sound crappy.
Is he going to give you in writing the copy of his copyright permission to do a format shift. And the proof that he paid for that permission? And can he grant you the permission to put them on your hard drive for public performance? 
After all of that you could still be illegal with the copyright law.
You could be the only legal illegal KJ in the country.
After all of that you could still be illegal with the copyright law.
You could be the only legal illegal KJ in the country.
