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Loz Wrote:

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> ou could then use Audacity or similar to capture the stream.


It comes with software.


TBH if they're fairly mainstream albums, it will be best just to download them from one of the more "affordable" sites.

RosieH Wrote:

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> Pibe, RosieH do have a beeyoodiful B&O on cherry

> wood plinth from the 70s, but never ripped

> anything to MP3.

>

> Is it pretty easy then from any turntable?


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I believe that you can, but I only found this out after I bought mine specially, however I didn't have a turntable anyway so it didn't make much odds really.


I'm not very technical but I'm sure someone on here will be able to tell you how.

most people I know who have gone down the route of digitising vinyl and/or old VHS cassettes have bought the necessary equipment, converted a few files, spent ages going "wow this works really well!" and then... somehow... putting off the remainder of the collection to an unspecified time which never arrives


I take otta's point about the source vinyl being unlikely to appear on spotify et al - but check youtube or torrents first. FAR easier

StraferJack Wrote:

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> most people I know who have gone down the route of

> digitising vinyl and/or old VHS cassettes have

> bought the necessary equipment, converted a few

> files, spent ages going "wow this works really

> well!" and then... somehow... putting off the

> remainder of the collection to an unspecified time

> which never arrives

>


xxxxxxx


Yep!


It's very time-consuming. Some of the vinyl has come out on CDs since or as downloads, but much of it hasn't.


But now I'm converting all my CDs as well to MP3s (well, FLACs actually, but that's a different debate) on a Cocktail audio system (basically a hard drive but rather nicer looking than playing stuff in your living room off a laptop) and that's also time-consuming partly because at present you have to put the album art in separately via a memory stick or other file, and partly because it doesn't pick up the info online for every CD immediately (or in some cases ever) so that has to be put in manually, ditto.


So I spent several days shovelling CDs in, but still have several boxes of stuff which either I've got to get the album art for or else key in all the info. And as you say, it has - like the rest of my vinyl (and cassettes) been put off to some unspecified day which will likely never come....... Winter???


It is brilliant for the music that is on there, though! And gets regular automatic updates of the software, and gets zillions of internet radio stations. Not that I ever listen to them :)

It's only a few records.. you'll do it in a couple of evenings, then lie back and, er, reap the benefits.


Wouldn't do it for myself (well, actually I did do it once and - as Jeremy said - never listened to 'em). The crackles, pops and noise that sound all characterful and waaanderful playing from vinyl just sound irritating and overhyped when digitised. And that was using decent gear!

Here's an idea - borrow a turntable off someone, hook it up to your digital four-track recorder thing, and then burn the resulting MP3s onto a CD. (You would have to play around with the EQ though, as the signal which comes directly from a turntable is treble-heavy).

If you do it without a proper preamp as above then you've have to stick the ground connection from the turntable to something metal as well, to avoid a right old hum.


Surely a man with 'cool factor' like yourself, Otta, knows a DJ with some decks and mixer? Or someone who wanted to be a DJ and bought decks and a mixer which are now quietly rotting in the loft?



I'd offer to help you out myself - only I have low self-esteem.

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