One more way to enjoy Emby

[francoisp 15]

I wanted to share a novel way—for me, at least—to enjoy music on Emby. I recently picked up several "Bach Guild" classical albums from Amazon for just 99 cents each. These are massive collections with 6 to 10 hours of music performed by real musicians, not AI.

Because they are so long, I found myself constantly listening to the same opening tracks and never reaching the end. Random play wasn't an option since the order of movements is essential in classical music. My solution? Treating them as audiobooks.

I used a tool on GitHub called m4bBookmaker to convert the albums. It’s a free program, though I paid $5 for the compiled Windows version to save time. Now that they are in audiobook format, Emby tracks my progress and lets me resume exactly where I left off. I’ve set up a dedicated directory and library in Emby specifically for these, and it works perfectly.

[me@jackbenda.com 11]

This is an excellent idea... I find myself struggling the same way with long classical LPs - big old symphonies or whatnot - and live performances. I'll convert a few and see how I get on!

[visproduction 356]

1 hour ago, me@jackbenda.com said:

find myself struggling the same way with long classical LPs

You need a RIAA EQ filter curve or a phono pre-amp (stand alone, or part of a proper amplifier) running between the LP playback and the digitial recording, in order to correctly EQ a LP disc to a digital copy.  You would get a incorrectly EQ'd copy, if you connect a turntable directly to digital recording Aux input on a computer.  It's possible to get good quality by treating such a bad EQ digital copy after it is recorded by running the RIAA EQ filter inside Audacity.  I think a quality phono pre-amp might do a better job of it.  You might have a RIAA filter, built into some turntables with USB out.  I am not familiar with that hardware.

 

 

Edited 57 minutes ago by visproduction