Thread: A monster Question with no satisfactory answers as yet

Artme,
Provided you have a turntable with an inbuilt pre-amp and RIAA equaliser you can just squirt the audio straight into your PC via your soundcard inputs and record it directly to you hard disc using any one of a number of available bits of free ware.
However, having gone through the exercise myself and lost many hours of my life to the process I just have to ask why?
Unless they are totally irreplaceable just save yourself the time and go out and buy the CDs.
Converting analogue to digital is a real time exercise i.e. you have to play the record through at it's normal speed. Then, unless you have some pretty good gear, you'll have to edit out the snap crackles and pops and then finally burn it to a CD/DVD.
Better you spend that time in the shed making sawdust.

Ian

G'day Arthur,
The following site may help.
Item 36726
http://www.rockby.com.au/myindex.cfm

A while back Tandy (or was it Dick Smith?) was selling cheap turntables that plugged into the sound card on your computer.

Not exactly Hifi quality, but what's simpler than sampling your records while simply listening to 'em?

I meant to buy one myself, I've quite a pile of eosteric LPs that AFAIK either haven't been released on CD or are collectibles in their own right. But somehow I didn't get a round tuit.

I gotta agree with Ian that if they're already available on CD, that's the better way to go in terms of better quality and less "wasted" time.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

A while back Tandy (or was it Dick Smith?) was selling cheap turntables that plugged into the sound card on your computer.

Not exactly Hifi quality, but what's simpler than sampling your records while simply listening to 'em?

I meant to buy one myself, I've quite a pile of eosteric LPs that AFAIK either haven't been released on CD or are collectibles in their own right. But somehow I didn't get a round tuit.

I gotta agree with Ian that if they're already available on CD, that's the better way to go in terms of better quality and less "wasted" time.

So you have got a copy of "Tapestry"

Originally Posted by watson

So you have got a copy of "Tapestry"

Carole King? [shudder]

No... but I have a few LPs like the Beatles Rarities album, which includes "Sie Liebt Dich," "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand," "Matchbox" & "Across the Universe" among other titles. I've never been able to chase down a CD of it, and although many of the songs can be DLed as MP3s there are still one or two I still haven't got. (Except on the LP.)

Or "Music of the Incas" by Pachacamac, which is played entirely on what they they think are reconstructions of Incan musical instruments. Lutes made from the shell of an armadillo, a flute from the leg-bone of a llama... but sound fantastic. Never officially released as anything but LP.

For general use, e.g. in car, the snap, crackles, and pops endow them with a quaint quality no longer available. And the simpler direct transfer allows more shed time, unless you enjoy tedium itself.

Remaining comments deleted because my brain hurts.

Joe

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Carole King? [shudder]

No... but I have a few LPs like the Beatles Rarities album, which includes "Sie Liebt Dich," "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand," "Matchbox" & "Across the Universe" among other titles. I've never been able to chase down a CD of it, and although many of the songs can be DLed as MP3s there are still one or two I still haven't got. (Except on the LP.)

Or "Music of the Incas" by Pachacamac, which is played entirely on what they they think are reconstructions of Incan musical instruments. Lutes made from the shell of an armadillo, a flute from the leg-bone of a llama... but sound fantastic. Never officially released as anything but LP.

Every body has at least two copies of Tapestry, because they forgot to send back the "Do Not Send Me This Month's Selection" form.
There is a download for a thing called Sound Studio which works really well when the record player or cassette is plugged into the 'puter. It has pop and click negation, and lots of other facilities, and whilst in the shed, I have rescued many a cassette or album
whilst having a bit of remembering time...........I couldn't find Tapestry though

Hey,Skew,
I had the Inca recording many moons ago.It's a ripper!!
How about burning a few copies for us Luddites??

Originally Posted by artme

I want to convert my LPs ( You know the old Vynil ) to dvds or , preferrrably, MP3 format.

Question is How?
Simplest method possible is what I want.

Arthur

the ION USB Turntable is the simpliest method I know see http://www.usb-turntable.org.uk/

I recall favourable reviews in the local press and on radio in the leadup to Christmas



ian

I used my folks account, so they got stuck with the... "unwanted items."

Originally Posted by Lignin

I had the Inca recording many moons ago.It's a ripper!!
How about burning a few copies for us Luddites??

I would if I could. Once artme gets his system set up I'll roll up to his place with a few hundred LPs under my arm to "borrow his 'puta for an hour or two."

Arthur
Aldi had a reasonable LP player for doing just that a few weeks back - comes up on sale every now and then. BOught one myself to put al my wifes single onto disc. Does take time and with a little editing can sound quite okay. Player comes with program for computer editing. I think Jaycar also has a cheaper one as does Dick Smith
Very time consuming as well. Could take it out in the shed but then I guess you wouldn't want to get dust on Carole King/ duh I meant your Beatle records.
Mines is just sitting here beside computer because I've been out in shed too much!
David

Hey,hey,hey.!! Wondeful replies and thanx all!

I have a Luxman Turntable, I have "music of the Incas", I have far too many albums to replace with CDs. I have stuphph that only a few of us have heard of or will be interested in.
Am going to Todd"s Hi Fi next week to see what they have.
Skew = you are full of surprises! What else do we share in the line of musical tastes? Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Harry Chapin, Alex De Grassi, Nelson Consalves????

Originally Posted by artme

Skew = you are full of surprises! What else do we share in the line of musical tastes? Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Harry Chapin, Alex De Grassi, Nelson Consalves????

Thank you. (I think. ) The first three I have (Ry C, R Newman & Harry Chapin) but the others I haven't come across. I think that one of the last LPs I bought was a Harry Chapin... "Sequel" from memory.

I was brought up on a diet of bagpipes, Nana Mouskouri and classical orchestral... Chopin, Beethoven, Handel, Bach, etc. So I learned to appreciate composition and, more importantly, sub-themes. I like music that every time I listen to it I hear something different or something new, regardless of genre.

Eroc, Wapassou, Cybotron, etc. were my "thing" during the late 70s/early 80s, all the experimental moog (and later synth), although I also enjoyed (and still do) the creative works of Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Emerson Lake & Palmer and some more... "popular" stuff. If it was, to me, ground-breaking stuff, I have a copy.

Never been a fan of most "common" RnR or pop music though. Too shallow... you hear it once and you know that next time it'll sound exactly the same. Although I do have a lot of early Rockabilly records by some relatively unknown artists, Alice Cooper and [gasp] all Enyas stuff.

I got a cheapie from Kmart that you can plug a usb key/MP3 player into and it will convert the LP into MP3 format for you.

Skew, you are welcome to come and have a play if you wish

It even plays 78's