Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
David, I have just finished converting all of my old LPs to CDs, using the $90 Dick Smith turntable/preamp. Used CD Spin Doctor that comes with Toast 6.0 to do the recording and break the recording into tracks. Then burnt CD with Toast. All on a 300MHz B/W G3 Worked every time. I now have 100 new CDs *Original Message* -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au. -- Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 0428 596938
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
-- Thanks to Rob Findlay, Ray Forma, and others who offered very helpful advice. I am in process of setting up my turntable with CD Spin Doctor and Toast 6.0, as most recommend. It worked for others, so it must work for me too... -- I must say, working within WAMUG does bring on a warm glow. David Noel / 2005 Apr 12 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:35:20 +0800 From: Ray Forma [EMAIL PROTECTED] David, I have just finished converting all of my old LPs to CDs, using the $90 Dick Smith turntable/preamp. Used CD Spin Doctor that comes with Toast 6.0 to do the recording and break the recording into tracks. Then burnt CD with Toast. All on a 300MHz B/W G3 Worked every time. I now have 100 new CDs *Original Message* -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 = Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 0428 596938 = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au.
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
David Noel wrote: -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 Hi David If iTunes recognises your disk writer it can burn the CDs for you. If only iTunes had a record button too. Otherwise, maybe Disc Burner can create an Audio CD from a recorded aif. Toast certainly can. Pro Tools Free will record it fairly easily, it might seem a complicated application but you only want to record, so if you pretty much ignore the rest it shouldn't be too hard. I've never tried the help myself but I'm sure it'll have some recording instructions. Pro Tools is mainly for recording anyway, it has buttons similar to a tape deck including the record button. You can try versiontracker.com or hitsquad.com for other freeware. Good luck Paul
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
BTW, will this work for Sony Minidisk players as well? I have a friend who needs to convert his collection to run on his soon to be purchased iPod Micro random wrigleys chewing-gum thingo. Brett Carboni Tsunami There is no spoon (for miso soup) On 4/4/05 11:01 PM, Paul Kitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this: David Noel wrote: -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 Hi David If iTunes recognises your disk writer it can burn the CDs for you. If only iTunes had a record button too. Otherwise, maybe Disc Burner can create an Audio CD from a recorded aif. Toast certainly can. Pro Tools Free will record it fairly easily, it might seem a complicated application but you only want to record, so if you pretty much ignore the rest it shouldn't be too hard. I've never tried the help myself but I'm sure it'll have some recording instructions. Pro Tools is mainly for recording anyway, it has buttons similar to a tape deck including the record button. You can try versiontracker.com or hitsquad.com for other freeware. Good luck Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
If I remember correctly, MiniDisks were a little different. It was possible to do, but one of my clients that had a Sony MD and an iMacG4 had to get an iMic to do it. And then there was a little bit of software tweaking to get it to work. So in answer, yes it is possible. Oh, and the player,.I'm sure you're referring to an iPod shuffle. :o) If you want more info on it, let me know as I think I still have it stored away somewhere what you had to do. :o) Hope that helps. Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 4/04/2005 11:07 PM, Brett Carboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, will this work for Sony Minidisk players as well? I have a friend who needs to convert his collection to run on his soon to be purchased iPod Micro random wrigleys chewing-gum thingo. Brett Carboni Tsunami There is no spoon (for miso soup) On 4/4/05 11:01 PM, Paul Kitchener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this: David Noel wrote: -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
On 04 Apr 2005, at 10:29 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: you just need a stereo audio editor capable of recording from the selected input on your mac (which would be line in from the turntable). You record each track (or one long track of however many songs are on each side of the vinyl and seperate them later) and then save the files as AIFF and then add them to iTunes and burn to CD. Toast 6 has a bonus app called CD Spin Doctor included which will do fine and you can burn the audio directly without using iTunes. If you don't have Toast use a free audio editor like Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and iTunes. Try to avoid going from recorded file from audacity to iTunes it will kill your file in sound quality. Also output as WAV not AIFF for some unknown reason in Audacity it sounds a whole lot better, even if you import into iTunes. Mostly you need lots of time and patience but you can have fun listening to all your old vinyl while you do it! HTH Rob On 04/04/2005, at 6:42 PM, David Noel wrote: -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Turntable vinyl to CD
-- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au.
Re: Turntable vinyl to CD
you just need a stereo audio editor capable of recording from the selected input on your mac (which would be line in from the turntable). You record each track (or one long track of however many songs are on each side of the vinyl and seperate them later) and then save the files as AIFF and then add them to iTunes and burn to CD. Toast 6 has a bonus app called CD Spin Doctor included which will do fine and you can burn the audio directly without using iTunes. If you don't have Toast use a free audio editor like Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and iTunes. Mostly you need lots of time and patience but you can have fun listening to all your old vinyl while you do it! HTH Rob On 04/04/2005, at 6:42 PM, David Noel wrote: -- I'm tempted to buy a turntable + preamp which Tandy's have at the moment for just under $100. The notice on it says you can plug it into your PC with a sound card (with a $6 adapter) and use it, with suitable software, to convert your 33s or 45s to CDs. -- I have a 450 MHz iMac (with UBS firewire ports). Can anyone tell me what I would need apart from the turntable to convert my old 33s to CDs? I'm running 9.1. TIA. David Noel 2005 Apr 4 = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
