CD to CD recording machine
CD to CD recording machine
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crankedup

Original Poster:

25,764 posts

267 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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As an old school hifi numpty I hope the wise ones can point me in the right direction.
I play my CD's on a amaranth player through my trusty old NAD 3130. Now I would like to record favourite tracks from my CD collection onto 'blank CD's'. can you please advise me as to what I need to buy to be able to accomplish this. Smaller the budget the better. Thanks all inputs and advise appreciated.

legzr1

3,885 posts

163 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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Use a PC.

Seriously, using a clunky machine to pause recordings while putting a cd in another player is a nightmare.
Been there, done that.

crankedup

Original Poster:

25,764 posts

267 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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legzr1 said:
Use a PC.

Seriously, using a clunky machine to pause recordings while putting a cd in another player is a nightmare.
Been there, done that.
Thanks, but I only have an apple ipad, no facility for CD.

GCH

4,134 posts

226 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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Pick up a Sony RCD-W3. That is what I used to use and it is a great unit. There are also others in that range.

Be warned though, that data blanks will not work - you need consumer blanks..

JulianHJ

8,861 posts

286 months

Saturday 14th October 2017
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The cheapest and easiest option would be to find a PC, any one with a CD drive would do - second hand, a friend or relative's perhaps - then use iTunes or similar to rip all of your music to the hard drive, create playlists for your favourite tracks and burn those to blank discs. The time consuming part will be sitting there feeding it the discs, but it doesn't require much effort. If it all seems too complicated, are you able to ask someone to assist? Perhaps in return for a small payment?

crankedup

Original Poster:

25,764 posts

267 months

Sunday 15th October 2017
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Thank you for all suggestions, all sorted now.

mp3manager

4,254 posts

220 months

Monday 16th October 2017
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JulianHJ said:
The cheapest and easiest option would be to find a PC, any one with a CD drive would do - second hand, a friend or relative's perhaps - then use iTunes or similar to rip all of your music to the hard drive, create playlists for your favourite tracks and burn those to blank discs. The time consuming part will be sitting there feeding it the discs, but it doesn't require much effort. If it all seems too complicated, are you able to ask someone to assist? Perhaps in return for a small payment?
Don't use iTunes, it's a steaming turd of a program...use something similar, like dbpoweramp.