Vinyl to CD recording software
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RipEditBurn; www.blazeaudio.com - does what it says on the tin, you might even be able to do it all within the free trial period. But it is very time consuming.
Ripping LPs is nothing like ripping CDs. It's a very labour intensive manual process, unlike a CD where you bung it in the drive and come back 10 minutes later.
You have to play the LP at normal speed, then cut the captured audio up into tracks, name everything (no CDDB for LPs), de-hiss and de-click the audio then convert it to MP3. It can take an hour per LP.
You have to play the LP at normal speed, then cut the captured audio up into tracks, name everything (no CDDB for LPs), de-hiss and de-click the audio then convert it to MP3. It can take an hour per LP.
[url]www.polderbits.com/lp-to-cd.html?ref=adword1[/url]
I downloaded and used this last night. Seems very simple to use and a 14 day free trial
I downloaded and used this last night. Seems very simple to use and a 14 day free trial
ThatPhilBrettGuy said:
catso said:
zumbruk said:
It can take an hour per LP.
And then some......
Yup. And then people go storing the results in MP3's. I always keep an uncompressed (or lossless) copy. After all, doing all that work then throwing half of it away seems rather silly...
I built a 24-bit external ADC so I wasn't dependent on the "quality" of the ADC in the soundcard and its "wonderful" isolation between analogue and digital signal domains...
For this approach it is important to note that not all soundcards produce data that is bit-for-bit identical with what comes into the S/PDIF input. Soundblasters like to resample the signal and generally piss around with it. Sound cards with a CMI8738 chip produce a bit-for-bit copy, and are likely to be cheaper too.
johnp68 said:
Can anyone recommend a good software package to enable me to record my old vinyl collection on to CD please? I'll be using it to record about 200 LPs and singles onto CD and won't be using it after that as the vinyl will be going on ebay! Thanks for any help.
supposing the files containing the ripped audio is lost to say virus, hard drive failure, broken dvd ?
ripping and then selling the records means u no longer have the "licence" to listen to the music on the records
might be worth looking on the net for the tracks you are after as they might be hiss and crackle free. Stuff the records and the player in the loft just in case
This is another option
www.decks.co.uk/products/decks/ion/iTT_USB
must say I am thinking of getting one as I have 1000+ vinyl albums that i want to put onto MP3
www.decks.co.uk/products/decks/ion/iTT_USB
must say I am thinking of getting one as I have 1000+ vinyl albums that i want to put onto MP3
Scooby_snax said:
This is another option
www.decks.co.uk/products/decks/ion/iTT_USB
must say I am thinking of getting one as I have 1000+ vinyl albums that i want to put onto MP3
www.decks.co.uk/products/decks/ion/iTT_USB
must say I am thinking of getting one as I have 1000+ vinyl albums that i want to put onto MP3
I think I've said this before, but NO!. It's the cheapest, nastiest deck ever (think Amstrad). Get a nice second hand deck and and ok sound card. It'll cost less and make so much better recordings.
Scooby_snax said:
Oh I have a good deck...Rega Planar 3 so how do you connect that up to the PC
Connect the line out of your amp to one of these www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=157223 and away you go.
Hmmmm that sounds like a major exercise in dismantling my hifi to put near my PC, that was one of the attractions of that ION unit as could just stick it beside PC and record LPs over a period of time.
If it is crap quality then the old adage crap in = crap out will not be satisfactory.
Are there any other solutions?
If it is crap quality then the old adage crap in = crap out will not be satisfactory.
Are there any other solutions?
cjs said:
You could buy yourself a stand alone CD Recorder, just put in a CDR and press record.
Yup - that's what my dad did to record his extensive record collection to CD. Well, that was the plan anyway. He never got round to doing it and the CD Recorder has sat in the hi-fi cabinet, unused and unconnected, for years.
cjs said:
You could buy yourself a stand alone CD Recorder, just put in a CDR and press record.
Someone did this for my Mum. Of course, you get a CD with 2 tracks on it; Side 1 and Side 2 of the record, and the hiss & clicks are unbearable. She never listens to them. And I never did get her to understand why there were only 2 tracks on the CD.
zumbruk said:
Someone did this for my Mum. Of course, you get a CD with 2 tracks on it; Side 1 and Side 2 of the record, and the hiss & clicks are unbearable. She never listens to them. And I never did get her to understand why there were only 2 tracks on the CD.
I hadn't considered that - good point.
Looks like the computer approach is better then, due to the software you can get to eliminate a lot of the hiss and also split the record up into tracks.
JonRB said:
zumbruk said:
Someone did this for my Mum. Of course, you get a CD with 2 tracks on it; Side 1 and Side 2 of the record, and the hiss & clicks are unbearable. She never listens to them. And I never did get her to understand why there were only 2 tracks on the CD.
I hadn't considered that - good point.
Looks like the computer approach is better then, due to the software you can get to eliminate a lot of the hiss and also split the record up into tracks.
True, but I'd like the original copy with all the noise anyway. The hiss / pop removal software can be heavy handed, and is improving all the time. Much better to be able to go to the original recording and do a better encoding job in the future.
Can't to insert track markers on these CD recorders? On DAT you can after the recording (which I use).
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