Transferring LP's & Cassettes to CD

[Joe Law]

I Know a lot has already been said about the best way to transfer music to CD, but here is a site I found using this frenchman's method with Cool-edit that I Thought might be helpful to some of us non-Techs. It seems pretty self explanatory to me.Also has a lot of links. http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html

[Larry Bell]

Joe,
I assume you posted this because you are in the process of evaluating how to convert a stack of vinyl to CDs. Perhaps I can offer another suggestion or two.

No matter how good you are with the computer stuff, it's gonna be VERY TIME CONSUMING. Recording to the computer will take the same length of time as the record ('real time recording'). Then, you'll want to listen to your new digital recording. (so far, we're at TWICE the length) Once you confirm that it sounds ok on your computer, you can begin figuring out which of the 'pop and click remover' software you'll need to use. You'll probably end up spending 4x more just listening to different restorations and deciding which to use. So that's about 6x the play time on the original vinyl. A one hour LP will take you SIX HOURS to prepare for burning to a CD. Those are the realities of the process (believe me, I've done it) and I am very comfortable with the computer aspects of it so little of the time was wasted.

NOW FOR ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE
If I were you I would seriously consider recording all my vinyl DIRECTLY to a standalone AUDIO CD BURNER. You will cut the 6x down to 1x, which may be fine for many of your records. You will have everything burned to CD and can do any restoration more easily on your computer, since the audio files can be read by CoolEdit or GoldWave or SoundForge. Once you have everything in an initial burn, you can decide which you care enough about to spend more time on them and they'll all be playable without having to haul that old turntable out of the closet (that's where mine is in any case)

If your record collection is anything like mine, with hundreds of LPs to go through, this can be prohibitively time consuming unless you really want it BAD. (you won't have much time to practice your steel guitar)

You're looking at about $350-500 (US) for a good audio CD burner and blanks are under a buck apiece.

Just a thought.

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[Smiley Roberts]

I have a Philips "stand-alone" dual-deck recorder,which I love. It's hooked-up to my stereo system,where I can go from any analog component to the "burner". It will,also,copy from CD to CD,digitally,at 2X speed. If I recall correctly,I got it for $250±. I,also, hav purchased blank 80 min. discs for,a low as 25¢ apiece. Ya just gotta shop around & look for bargains. I'm in the process of transferring a bunch of my old "8 tracks" on to CD.

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[Jim Cohen]

Smiley, you got all this $hit, and you still ain't even got a freakin' computer??

[Smiley Roberts]

Jim,
There are PRIORITIES you know. CD burners, booze,drugs,women,etc.

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[Jim Cohen]

I think it's now becoming clear to me why you are the "Vice" President of NTSGA.

[Joey Ace]

Intresting order you put your priorities in Smiles.

Maybe that also explains why you're always Smilin'.


Now get a computer so you can suffer like the rest of us!!!

[Smiley Roberts]

Joey,
They are not necessarily,in that order. They are,whatever happens to be "handy" at the time.

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[jim milewski]

you can get burned by a woman...hmmmm