how do you make transcribing less tedious and boring?

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or how do you stop yourself from not bothering to transcribe and so something more rewarding like perusing ILM when you know better.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Interview someone more interesting.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Replace random words of the interviewee with profanities.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I thought that this post was about actually doing transcriptions of music. If that was the original intention for the subject and not what was assumed by the prior answers, then there is no real way to making transcribing less tedious and boring. You know you need it to be done, so you just set aside hours of one's life to achieve the result.

Interviews and reviews are usually done by those who know relatively little about music.

― bahtology, Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine my transcription papers as little dancing clowns

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Mary Poppins to help you - dickvandyke, I'd have thought you'd be down with that

― Steve Munro (Steve Munro), Sunday, 20 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't make it less tedious and boring, but I have one simple suggestion on making it go more quickly: do the transcription as soon as possible after the completion of the interview. Certain phrases will remain fresh in your head and you'll be able to burn through them instead of stop-rewind-stop-rewind.

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 21 June 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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