Help needed-Listening to Concerts and preparing song List

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 06 Jul 2006, 19:58

I have been wondering If I could use this forum to look for volunteers to listen to Concerts ,prepare song lists and help me in the process of cataloguing.

These concerts cover almost all the major artists-they include old radio recordings- and were converted in one go (from spools and un-indexed tapes) by a good samaritan .

The volume of work is very huge since the conversions covered more than 300-350 spools and an equal number of tapes.
They were done with a view to preserve the music that would have been otherwise lost.

So it will require a large number of volunteers working on different artists.

Volunteers will not have to make any commitments .
There is no time frame even.

I will ship the recordings if they are in India , and even find ways of moving them if outside.

And I am in the process of sending across another bunch of 150 spools , since the good soul has indicated that he would make one more attempt at conversion...
For the sake of posterity.

any one interested in this activity can mail me at inmech@gmail.com

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 06 Jul 2006, 20:20

I have had a few responses already.

some more clarifications.

The concerts will be in tracks of 45 minutes duration if recorded from tapes and 72 minutes if made from spool.
Nothing else is known about the contents , except maybe accompanists and venue.
so the Volunteer will have to listen through and keep jotting the names of songs and raga.Thala and composer if available would be great.

Those who mail me , alos please indicate your favourite artists so that i can make sure you listen to artists whom you like 8)

vsagar · Post by **vsagar** » 08 Jul 2006, 14:11

How can one listen to spools? need a old tape recorder?

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 08 Jul 2006, 14:55

You will need a Spool player .

kaumaaram · Post by **kaumaaram** » 08 Jul 2006, 17:31

Give me a spool player and the cords for connecting! 8)

Well, I would offer my services for tapes!

Kaumaaram

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 08 Jul 2006, 18:27

Thanks to all of you who have responded so fast .

I shall be organising the stuff according to the preferences mentioned and you should hear from me through email within a fortnight.

Chennaibased members are still welcome to respond

Kaumaram .. this is not for conversion of tapes.
This is for listening to tracks -mp3-labelled like say Track1, or 2 or 3 , and listing the krithis rendered.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 08 Jul 2006, 22:05

Thanks to those generous souls who will listen and decipher the songs, raga and the artistes for the rest of us to enjoy. It requires patience and a good knowledge of CM combined with discriminatory hearing!
mama abhinandanam!

kaumaaram · Post by **kaumaaram** » 09 Jul 2006, 11:54

Thanks to all of you who have responded so fast

Kaumaram .. this is not for conversion of tapes.
This is for listening to tracks -mp3-labelled like say Track1, or 2 or 3 , and listing the krithis rendered.

OK. Let me test my knowledge and understanding!

Kaumaaram

rmdeer2000 · Post by **rmdeer2000** » 11 Jul 2006, 04:58

coolkarni,

i will be glad to help u catalogue ur concerts.

my favs include SSI, SKR, TNS, GNB, Ramnad Krishnan, Voleti, and TMT

thanx

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 12 Jul 2006, 10:54

rmdeer2000
thanks.
please mail me at inmech@gmail.com

kram · Post by **kram** » 14 Aug 2006, 12:36

coolkarniji
me a new member .looking forward for anything musical.and wish to join the project CATALOGUE. WAITING FOR SUGGESTIONS
thanks

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 14 Aug 2006, 12:47

pl mail me at inmech@gmail.com

others
thanks for all the responses till date

nice to declare that i have enough volunteers for the task on hand and will be closing this topic now.
once again , thanks to all.

Rigapada · Post by **Rigapada** » 19 Aug 2006, 12:16

Dear Coolkarni,
Hope I am not late.

"Kaumaram .. this is not for conversion of tapes.
This is for listening to tracks -MP3-labeled like say Track1, or 2 or 3 , and listing the krithis rendered."

I understand that you are getting the tapes converted to MP3 initially. Ofcourse, you may be knowing that MP3 is a lossy compression.. It will be better to convert the tapes to wave and then to a lossless format like flac or wavpack. These are like ZIP or RAR format for Datafiles. The compression possible is about half only, but then HDDs and CDR-blanks are so cheap nowadays. At a later date, the files can be converted to the format of choice, like mp3 or mp4 or OGG. Once you have the original audio files in lossless format, processing can be done at a later date by different people to reduce the noise or restore the music. This cannot be done on MP3 etc. Even if you are having the original tapes, it will be difficult to redegitise them. If you have the original files in Lossless format, redegitising from the tapes is not required.
You may be knowing all the above, and you may be doing the same..

I can also undertake the preparation of songlists. I am in Hyderabad.

--Sarma (Rigapada)

rnandu · Post by **rnandu** » 25 Aug 2006, 08:49

Dear Coolkarni
I will be more than happy to help with this. Unfortunately it can be only for tapes and not for spools as I do not have a spool player. But do note that I am based in Singapore.
I can ask my father to also help - he will be more than happy and has the time and ability too - he is based in Delhi.
Favourite artists would include (GNB, MMI, SSI, DKJ, TVS, MLV) - but not really constrained by this.

Jai Shree Ram
R Nandakumar

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 25 Aug 2006, 09:03

rnandu
well i thought i had closed this topic.
anyway this was not for conversion of tapes to mp3 but for listening to and identifying contents of music tracks.as i have said earlier , i have more than enough volunteers , but you can still mail me.we can discuss

ignoramus · Post by **ignoramus** » 25 Aug 2006, 14:42

coolkarni sir

i am available for tapes. i am based in chennai. near guindy. Will that help. spools are a problem. KVN/MDR/Alathur brothers/GNB/MMI are all favourites