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by: Lelin October 21, 2005 6:24 AM PDT

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Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's

by Lelin - 10/21/05 6:24 AM

I have some fine old music recordings on vinyl (analog) and would like to digitize them on my computer so I can burn the music onto CD's. Any suggestions for the best and/or simplest way to do this?
My OS is Windows XP SP2 and I have a fairly decent Soundblaster sound card. I have 1 GB of RAM and plenty of hard drive space to work with (3 hard drives, 2 internal and 1 external).


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Easy way for me

by zorander - 10/29/05 8:17 AM

In Reply to: digitizing vinyl by Fred bouchard

I bought a cable at Radio Shack that I plugged into the headphone jack on my receiver and then into the line-in jack of my sound card. This allowed me to copy not only my LPs, but my cassettes and reel-to-reels.


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Don't use the headphone jack

by railtrolley - 10/29/05 9:24 AM

In Reply to: Easy way for me by zorander

I wouldn't recommend using the headphone jack on your receiver. The output of the headphone jack is usually boosted by using part of the power amplifier section to drive the headphones (they are, after all speakers). The pc motherboard's line in socket is only designed to accept a line level input from your pre-amp, i.e. not boosted by the power amplifier section. The sockets on the back of the amp for 'tape out' or 'tape monitor' are suitable. Using the headphone socket risks 'clipping' (too high a signal level) at the very least, or you could damage your motherboard by sending a signal which has been boosted by the power amplifier section.

Having said this, of couse you never connect the speaker output terminals of your amplifier to the line in socket of the motherboard, that's a sure way of sending it up to heaven.


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Digitize Vinyl

by dgeorgef - 10/29/05 9:44 AM

In Reply to: Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's by Lelin

OK so I haven't read all the posts, but here is my take. I assume you have a receiver/amplifier so you don't need a preamp to connect the turntable. I connect the receiver line-out to audio line-in using RCA to mini plug connector.

I use Polderbits (http://www.polderbits.com/) software. It includes both a recorder and editor to split tracks. I record the whole record as one file and then split it into tracks.

By the way you can record anything you can hear including streaming audio.


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TEAC GF-350

by Krain - 10/29/05 2:22 PM

In Reply to: Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's by Lelin

I am very happy with the TEAC GF-350 music system. It has a built-in turntable and a built-in CD recorder. It works very well and you then have the ability to take the recorded CD and do anything you want with it.
It is a little pricey but the simplicity is worth the price.


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Vinyl to cd-rom

by azirish - 10/31/05 8:03 AM

In Reply to: Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's by Lelin

I just spent evenings for almost two months moving a couple hundred records to cd-rom

It couldn't have been easier. I bought the latest ROXIO Easy Media Creator software. I had to go to radio shack to get an inexpensive (less than $15) connector y-cable. Then I had to dust off the old turntable and locate the Discwasher cleaner thingie, and I was in business

One thing about the noise/hiss/pop/scratch reducing settings: they distort the original sound terribly

Enjoy


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Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them to cd's

by Farris - 3/19/06 7:06 AM

In Reply to: Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's by Lelin

An excellent inexpensive program for this is RIP Vinyl I have used it for several years to convert my record collection of over 500 albums to mp3's. At the time I started this project it was the only program I could find that would do what I needed. I'm sure there are other programs out there now that will do the job but this one still works for me. It will break the stream from the record into individual tracks which is a tremendous time saver. Go to WWW.RIPvinyl.com for info Good luck.


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Go DAK

by non-geek - 4/14/07 3:16 PM

In Reply to: Digitize my vinyl music records so I can burn them onto CD's by Lelin

I'm in the process of converting thousands of LPs to digital. Having absolutely no idea how to go about the task when I began, I selected DAK. They actually have a whole package where you can buy all the hardware (turntable and mixer) and the software, the Editor AND the DePopper (a real nice way of removing many of the clicks, scratches and pops).

I've looked at other software and found that there is a learning curve with each, but the beauty of DAK is that they have truly the best Customer Service of any online business. Their claim is that they will walk you through to make sure you're recording okay and they mean it. It's a great feeling to know that I can email them anytime and they'll respond to my satisfaction.

The product is great, the price is reasonable and the results are near professional.


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