I'd love that, How much is Amadeus pro? On Dec 17, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
> Hi Jessica, > > > About 4 years ago I did exactly what you are talking about. I > purchased a USB turn table. It was not expensive about $60.00 . It was > probably not very high quality but it worked fine for my needs. Over the > winter months I digitized my vinyl collection. The results were very good > and at the end of the process I got a very big surprise. Here is what I did > and what happened. > > I used Amadeus Pro to record and then split the recording into tracks. I was > a experienced user of Audacity on the PC and started with that on the mac but > found it much easier to use Amadeus Pro. > > I then did a podcast about the process and as I left my email in the podcast > I received emails from many people doing the same thing. > > My podcast is outdated now but essentially the process is the same. there > are many podcasts out there teaching the same steps on newer versions of > Amadeus Pro. > > the next thing I did was I used Sound Hound on my iPhone to identify songs, > artists and albums. > > I also sometimes used VizWiz on my iPhone to identify albums. > > I labeled my tracks carefully. > > I must have done a good job labeling and recording the tracks as a year > later I subscribed to itunes Match. To my surprise my vinyl trackes were > often recognized and I ended up with many tracks replaced as high quality > itunes versions. As a result my work ended up with my having both the > familiar crackle copies and new digital copies. > I truly enjoyed the process of recording the vinyl. > > Best of luck with your project. > > If you want my old podcast I might be able to dig it up and put it out in a > dropbox link. > It was on blindcooltech.com and thus was lost when that site went away. > > Eric Caron > > > On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I originally didn't really want to go that route , but considering the fact >> that sons of the stuff I'm looking for is out of print and is available on >> vinal only, I unfortunatly don't have a choice.) >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >>> >>> While I haven't played around with this, most USB turntables will not hook >>> up to your line in/out jacks. The turntable will just connect via USB and >>> have a built-in analog to digital converter. So it should just show up as a >>> generic audio input device which you can record from using your favorite >>> app. You could even do it with plain old quicktime if you so desired. the >>> more tricky stuff is splitting up the recorded audio into tracks along with >>> any post-processing for scratches and such. Then you also have to name each >>> track and add all the other meta data like album name, artist, release date >>> etc. In the end you have to consider if all that is worth your time. Unless >>> you have some rare or special stuff it might be money better spent in >>> iTunes getting pristine copies of your favorite tracks or even buying the >>> CD versions and importing them. If you still want to go forward I'd check >>> into the turntables offered by Sweetwater, Guitar Center, B&H and the like. >>> Seems to start at about $100 for a basic one and goes up to about $800 for >>> a super deluxe model. >>> >>> http://www.sweetwater.com/store/search.php?s=usb+turntable&Go=Search >>> http://www.guitarcenter.com/Search/Default.aspx?internal=1&browser=&fsrc=usb+turntable&src=usb+turntable >>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=usb+turntable&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search= >>> >>> CB >>> >>>> On 12/10/13 9:26 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: >>>> I'm wanting a usb turntable for Christmas, but not sure of a good model to >>>> buy, and kind of need a memory refresher on how to use one. >>>> I think I have the jist of it, needing to hook it into the line in/out >>>> jacks, which I'm not 100% sure which ones are where, and could use some >>>> tips on the conversion process, considering the fact that I've never >>>> really played around much with audacity much, sense the few times I've >>>> tried, I couldn't make heads or tails of it, so gave up on it, so would >>>> love some pointers. 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