mapman - I can usually input a raw file, break it into tracks and tag it is 15 minutes or so. This is greatly simplified by using VS's ability to look up albums in the discogs.com database. It has a remarkable numbers of albums in it. If VS finds an album it will import the track names and track times and apply them. The timings are never exact and you have to move the track brakes around to account for the lead in time and the time between tracks. But it becomes an easy process for most normal albums. Live albums with lots of applause and albums where tracks merge together can take a lot longer to figure out where to break the tracks. There is also an option to search for track breaks, but using discogs is usually easier.
Tagging is pretty simply. You can set album, artist, composer, genre, conductor for the whole album and you can edit them for each track if you wish. Take a look here at Splitting Tracks here
http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/VinylStudio/helpfile_contents.aspx
In the VS General Forum there is a post with a couple of tips on looking up albums in discogs using catalog and release numbers. They can be helpful for hard to find albums and for albums with lots of versions. I use those tips all the time.
The time consuming task can be cleanup. You can do hum, rumble and hiss removal in a few minutes. Running click repair is also quick, but you may have to do manual fixes which can take time. Once you get used to it, you can scan through the corrected waveform and spot potential problem spots. My record is about 3 hours for a very damaged recording, but that was also when I was knew to doing it. But, for most albums there is little manual work needed. It all depends on how clean you want the resulting tracks. Scratches across the record are easy to fix. Anything that runs parallel to the tracks can be very hard to fix.
Total time without doing a lot of manual click repairs usually varies for 15 to 30 minutes.
Tagging is pretty simply. You can set album, artist, composer, genre, conductor for the whole album and you can edit them for each track if you wish. Take a look here at Splitting Tracks here
http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/VinylStudio/helpfile_contents.aspx
In the VS General Forum there is a post with a couple of tips on looking up albums in discogs using catalog and release numbers. They can be helpful for hard to find albums and for albums with lots of versions. I use those tips all the time.
The time consuming task can be cleanup. You can do hum, rumble and hiss removal in a few minutes. Running click repair is also quick, but you may have to do manual fixes which can take time. Once you get used to it, you can scan through the corrected waveform and spot potential problem spots. My record is about 3 hours for a very damaged recording, but that was also when I was knew to doing it. But, for most albums there is little manual work needed. It all depends on how clean you want the resulting tracks. Scratches across the record are easy to fix. Anything that runs parallel to the tracks can be very hard to fix.
Total time without doing a lot of manual click repairs usually varies for 15 to 30 minutes.
