For all you old folks out there..I figured out how to dump LPs onto my hard drive and then burn CDs. Free except for the CD-Rs which I paid about $10.00 for 200. Now all I need is about 300 more! Works great.
Having the music converted to digitial certainly makes listening eaiser and more often than not the music will truely sound better. I still enjoy listening to the original LP's recordings the most. But, I really do enjoy the XM satelite in my car because its so easy to use. I just leave it on the Best of the 60s station or the Haight Ashbury experience.
I'm to cheap to get sat radio. I just burn mixes for the car CD. 80 min to a CD and I love every song. Think I'll dump Mason and Fenn and Baroon Von Toll Booth next.
PEace, i have both vynal and cd rom. i would ove to know how to do it! i have many albums by John Denver to Elvis Presy and have many blank cds! later the tired flwoer child
First thing you want Josh, is a good program to reduce the noise. (Pops & Clicks from the needle on the LP.) Then what I do is use these: (See Picture) The cable plugs into the Speaker jacks on the turntable then into the end on the adapter. Which plugs into your "Line In" jack on your computer. I use MusicMatch 7.5 to "RIP" the sound to an MP3 file. And use the other program to clean up the sound. (The cable setup also works well for listening to TV or VCR sound!) Have fun trying different things.
Whaaaat? The surface noise is the best bit! What you want to do is get yourself a turntable and listen to them in all their glory:sunglasse
I downloaded a freeware open source program called Audacity. Very good for free, but you must record each track on the LP seperately if you want seperate tracks on your hard drive. It will not recognize silences as track ends. Ore you can just record a complete LP side. It will sorta reduce pops, but I didn't like the results. It will do fade in and outs, reverses, echos, multitracking, track seperation, etc. I had problems hooking to my computer as my newer amp had no line outs, stupid thing, well it did but they are ribbon wire to dedicated add ons. So, I used my old Sanyo. But, if I run my computer to my receiver's RCA aux and hook my receiver's line out to my computer's line in and turn to AUX I get feed back when playing back what I just recorded. But not on the Phono setting. The solution for me is to pull the receiver's line out wires to the computer when I switch my receiver to AUX. I think I need some diodes in one of my RCA cables. I record to WAV files then I can use NERO (came with the computer) to burn CDs or MP3s.
