So I'm currently digitizing my records. This is easy to do for CDs. I got myself a dvd drive and just rip them to flac files on my computer. Tagging is easy too pulling the data from music brainz. Vinyl records are a little bit of a different story though because for each side of a record I get one long audio file. Splitting up the files to individual tracks is a very tedious process. I'm currently doing that manually with audacity and then exporting them to flac files.

Does anyone have an idea to do that more easily? Maybe even automate parts of the process. After all music brainz has all the track lenghts available. So in theory it should be possible to automate this to some degree.

Any ideas are welcome. Thank you.

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[–] silvercloudfox@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@honk Haven't tried myself but maybe scope to use a "label" track and export multiple? manual.audacityteam.org/man/ex…
You may have some degree of success in auto labelling depending on the audio and threshold levels bytefreaks.net/applications/au…

[–] honk@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Labeling the parts of the song and then exporting multiple is how I currently do it.

The auto labelling actually somewhat works. The error rate is relatively high though. Set the threshold too low and the background noise of the record will make it detect nothing. Setting it too high and even small quieter parts get detected. It's far from being "automated" but it actually helps a bit. Thank you.