I usually use "Corpus Christi Watershed" a.k.a. "Rene Goupil" to get MP3s, PDFs, etc. of the propers for each Sunday.

However, the Feast of the Holy Name seems to be a bad specimen. Instead of a Solesmes recording or a recording of a soloist who is actually good, they have some idiot who can't sing.

Seriously, he fades his voice out if he can't hit a note. He gets way too quiet at times. Also, he is sometimes off key (or changes the key he's singing in mid-way through), he sings WAY too fast, and his recordings sound heavily edited by an amateur (they are chopped, unnatural, etc.)

I don't want to learn the Introit from someone like that! My worst fear is to mis-learn something -- chant or anything else.

Anyhow, this particular recording is so bad that I can't stand to listen to this Sunday's chant on repeat, which I usually do whenever we have a High Mass coming up.

(Keep in mind, if it were just a person's voice tone, or even a bad recording -- coughs, background noise, etc. I would be fine with it.) I'm not that much of a perfectionist when it comes to my chant. I listen to live recordings from S.T.A.S. all the time, and those have all kinds of imperfections. So I'm used to that.

Does anyone have the Solesmes recording for this week? I'm talking about the 1930's or 1950's recording. Apparently those recordings can't be had for love or money anymore.

As for the Schola Bellarmina -- their recordings are $42.50 each from Angelus Press -- the Schola won't even sell them to CD retailers at a wholesale discount anymore (I tried). So although their CDs are great, they are kind of hard to come by and quite expensive.

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Sounds like a real problem.  Unfortunately, I don't have an answer, because learning to read the Liber Usualis and make your own recording is going to take more than one week.

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With no recordings, I could spend time figuring it out, using a keyboard to poke out the notes, etc. but that takes more time.

I was hoping for the "sleep with the mathbook under my pillow" approach, listening to the chant a dozen times while I work at my PC and get other things done, and become familiar with it that way.

I got quite hooked on this method, which makes a lot of sense given my current (busy) lifestyle.