I just plug a Tape Out from my stereo receiver (remember those?) into Line In on my sound card and play the LPs on a turntable through the receiver. This also allows me to record off the radio (Garrison Kellior's Guy Noir & Lake Woebegone). Like Jay Ward, I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. Mine is 2003 and it has declicker, decrackler, denoiser & dehisser - it does de job. I have a bunch of my dad's 78's and a turntable (Dual 1229) to play 'em! I was going to burn the 78's onto CD for him, but didn't finish soon enough. (If you're in the same boat, burn 'em before it's too late. You don't get a second chance). Now I'm working on my own LPs. ACLab also allows 2 tracks, so I can fade one song out and another in on top of it. I'm happy with ACLab but haven't used anything else, so I have no basis for comparison. There's a free Try-B4-U-buy download available - Google for it. Downloadable full version is $29.99. Product info @ http://site.magix.net/index.php?id=411
I keep the digitized music on my server and play it with any media player - Win Media Player, Musicmatch Jukebox, etc. In addition to MikeB's comment about not compressing, I would also suggest recording at the highest sampling rate possible, 96 kbs min for music.
Sorry for continuing the off-topic, but it seems to have generated some interest.
Next responder might rename the thread - R:B Audio?
Doug
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Javier:
You and me both! PC Magazine this week had a short review of a product
called the ADS Instant Music, for $59 list. www.adstech.com
It says "Got an attic full of vinyl LPs or cassette tapes? The <thingy above>
device and software let you easily convert your music from analog to digital
via your PC's USB port. The bundle includes all of the music capture,
conversion, editing and CD-publishing tools you'll need. Save the converted
digital audio files on your computer, burn them to a CD, or load them onto
your portable player..."
I'm thinking of getting it to grab my favorite songs from my LPs. If they
are marketing such a device, surely recording my own records can't
be illegal, can it?
Karen
I should do this as well, I have over 100 LPs (you do know what those are
<g>) left that I would like to convert to a digital format and clean up all
the noise...
Javier,
