I recently purchased The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle, but have had no luck in playing the audio files on my PC (they work fine on my cd player). I’ve tried the accessing the cds by auto run (placing them in my cd drive), by Windows Media Player, by Real Player, and through Windows Explorer.
The only thing I get is the green page with the description of Grey Larsen’s website. The “Click here to see a list of the audio contents of this CD” leads me to a list of non-clickable tracks. It’s been very frustrating, I’m sure I’m missing something basic.
Anybody else with this problem. Thanks for your help.
Hi Jeffrey!
I haven’t got Greys book and CD yet so i can’t tell if there is any copy protection or similar. As you can play the tracks on your audio player there cant be anything wrong with the CD. I dont know what software or OS youre using on your PC to play these tracks, but I dont think this is a software issue.
Try this:
Download CDex and copy all the tracks to your hard drive, that should take care of any copy protection problems. If this doesn’t work I would guess that there is something wrong with your CDrom (might have problems reading certain media etc). See if you can read it from another PC, and if you can burn a copy and try to use that instead.
Grey has instructions, which he sends to everyone who ordered his book through his Web site. Drop him an e-mail at grey@greylarsen.com and maybe you could post his instructions here on the board.
I haven’t read Grey’s instructions on how to play them, but I have been able to this way.
With the CD already in the drive, start Media Player (or whatever program plays audio CDs on your computer). From the program, select audio CD as your source and press play.
James,
I have not yet acquired the book, but have read review comments on several lists. There have been many comments about the written material, but virtually nothing on the CD contents. I’d be interested to hear your impressions. PM would be fine if you have only initial impressions. Best, Steve
Yeah, he was actually up here in Quebec all last week, but I think he’s back home now so you should receive a reply.
The CDs include all the examples demonstrated in Grey’s book (ornamentation, etc.), plus all the tunes that he transcribed (except the ones he transcribed from other musicians).
I had the same problem, but can’t remember how I solved it, and book and CDs are on loan to someone for a bit. Please, when you figure it out, post it here!
In all honesty I’ve only done the most cursory listening to them yet.
As far as an initial impression, I’d say it’s positive. Mainly the CDs seem to be demonstrations of techniques and ornamentations from the book, so there’s really not much to say except they are what they say they are.
I think the book is valuable…I think in particular it’s the best hope someone without a teacher would have of learning Irish ornamentation. Also it’s great as a reference for “what do you call that” situations. It’s an impressive piece of work.
Hi,
I agree with James, the book is a good learning and reference tool.
I am just starting to learn ornametation, this book walks you through it.
The CD will play with the media player, if like James says, you open the media player first. You have to find the track you are on to corespond with the lesson. This took a little getting used to.
Also if you don’t read music it might be dificult to follow the lessons in the book.
You might try the CD’s in a regular CD player, that might be easier.
Jon
