Dad wants 4 of his favourite music tracks played at his funeral (church)
ie track A (4mins long) a jolly track as people enter the church.
Track B (3.57 Mins long) as the coffin arrives.
Track C (3.46 mins long) after the reading.
Track 4 (4 mins long) as everyone leaves the church.
They are all to be on thew same CD
Ok so how do you do it, ie track 1 only played 2 mins and the coffin is in, if you pause track 1 it will carry on when un paused but realy you need the next track so if you stop track 1 then when ready you play track 2.
Dunno whether you are looking to do a DIY job. Normally those are the role of the funeral director, who has a raft of other duties such as queuing in the valedictories from rellies, friends etc. Unfortunately this does not come cheap.
This is period burdened with huge administrative demands on the next of kin. A horrible workload at a horrible time. If you are in, or shortly to be in that situation seek help. My first port of call would be the CAB as they can passport you through to the other people you need, and a list of the things you MUST do. Look forward to working on this task for a year.
Although it is slightly easier than it was 20 years ago, it is still horrible. There must be a better way!
You could edit the tracks to the length you want, fade them in/out etc, and them burn them to CD with something like Audacity. You could then just press the pause button between tracks like you said. Make sure you burn an audio CD and not a data CD though.
An Ex DJ mate of mine came unstuck at a wedding reception once, the bride and groom had requested that 4 special tracks be played and had supplied them on CD. My mate played the CD on his home PC first because he knew it was a data CD and it worked fine. Come the night though, he tried to play the tracks on his laptop and they turned out to be in Realplayer format and he had no codec for that on his laptop. No easy access to the internet for a quick down load back then so oops 😁
This may show out of the loop i am when I comes to cds. But can’t you just burn them on to a disk again using somthing like Windows mediaplayer?
as that gave you proper track nimbers 1234… So you’d just tell the vicor at what point to play what track. That’s what we done at my dad’s, that was a real cd so we simply said at this point track 6, then track 12, then finally track 2.
Atleast if you make your own cd. You can order them first. Which should take out most of the possibly to mess up.
There was no charge by this vicor. Also at my wedding in 2008, we did similar. (or wife did similar).
It’s dad thinking ahead, I always thought this to be arranged by family at the time?
Thanks Graham
This all started as someone did a CD but dad couldn’t play it in the car to listen. It turned out to be mp3 tracks,
I have done another CD in CDA.
To create a recording with length is a little tricky, time from a to b (as such) not known.
Celebrant (which could be you, but a lot less emotional if someone practised at it carries out this role)
Tell him, if he is thinking ahead, to skip the Christmas – New Year period. It cocks up a lot of arrangements for many other people, and so many die in that period there could be a four-six weeks wait for final disposal.😀 An autopsy is to be avoided if possible as this can add even more delay and screw up your place in the queue – I’ve seen the impact on the rellies of there being no closure.
I should have given the link, but basically you need to be under the care of a Doctor for the last two weeks of the illness he/she certifies kills you, to have a chance of avoiding an Inquest.
It cannot otherwise be avoided, and the Coroner sets the requirement.
You will normally avoid any sort of inquest if a person dies in hospital of the disease they were being treated for. The main exception is if they die during an operation as stated in Ed’s link.
My missus and I are Humanists and believe in no organised religion. The Celebrant link is what we will have: already “booked” and a Burial Green sorted, not far from where we live. I am expressing my wish in the new Will to be buried in just a shroud, with a tree planted over me. It’s a beautiful, quiet meadow dedicated to just Green Burials, no headstones or other markers but all plots known to the Gate Security. I want to be recycled into the Earth via the bugs, beetles and worms. My Gert’s wish is cremation: ashes scattered to the wind at Sutton on Sea, Celebrant service. I promised not to burn her before she falls of her perch.😊
Our kids and grandbrats already know and agree with all this, which is something that we believe is necessary. I can see my Notts relatives (whoever comes) finding all that strange, but it’s not their business, should have visited us here in life, not seen one since 1999. They (and probably some neighbours) won’t like my choice of music:
Those are my choices, they are at liberty to leave the building before I do!😉😇😁 I don’t want to be grieved over, I have had a great life (mostly) and I want celebration, not misery.
When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.
Every time I try it pulls up an old Bing search then barfs out a WordPress dialog with ‘Potentially Illegal Action detected — naff off, or words to that effect.’
Ta – I was attacking the problem from the wrong end.
Although this is how I’d like my cremation service to end, the start of the song is probably too tough for many over 70s in the congregation, I suspect my survivors will ignore my wishes!
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