Fwd: vinyl to CD

[Richard Anderson]

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From: Richard Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 January 2007 4:05:25 PM

Subject: Re: vinyl to CD

The latest Macworld (jan 2007 p 10) has an advert for a USB  
turntable to convert directly to CD or MP3. A bit pricey at $349,  
but if like me. you have over 300 vinyls, might be worth it. They  
also include MP3 sunglasses!!


Techtools.com.au is their website,

Dick
On 03/01/2007, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 02/01/2007, at 1:40 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote:

A friend has found an advert for a USB gizmo that can team up  
with a turntable and casette player to capture and burn CDs from   
his collection @ about $130. I remember reading something on  
WAMUG about doing the same thing through the Mac without too much  
trouble. I can't find it in the archives.   Does anyone remember  
the procedure?


regards and happy New Year.

Kev


Happy New Year Kev,

A detailed 'How To' using CD Spin Doctor (that comes with Toast 7),
to convert your old Vinyl Records into Digital recordings and put  
onto you iPod or  burn to CD's.


<http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/article_info.php/articles_id/3>

Cheers,
Ronni



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Re: vinyl to CD

[Ronda Brown]

On 02/01/2007, at 1:40 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote:

A friend has found an advert for a USB gizmo that can team up with  
a turntable and casette player to capture and burn CDs from  his  
collection @ about $130. I remember reading something on WAMUG  
about doing the same thing through the Mac without too much  
trouble. I can't find it in the archives.   Does anyone remember  
the procedure?


regards and happy New Year.

Kev


Happy New Year Kev,

A detailed 'How To' using CD Spin Doctor (that comes with Toast 7),
to convert your old Vinyl Records into Digital recordings and put  
onto you iPod or  burn to CD's.




Cheers,
Ronni

Re: vinyl to CD

[Stephen Chape]

What about the applications Audio Hijack and LineIn ?
I have heard of them but not used them.
I think they are both free downloads, but Audio Hijack is $16 to  
register.

You should only then need the appropriate cables.

On 02/01/2007, at 1:40 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote:

A friend has found an advert for a USB gizmo that can team up with  
a turntable and casette player to capture and burn CDs from  his  
collection @ about $130. I remember reading something on WAMUG  
about doing the same thing through the Mac without too much  
trouble. I can't find it in the archives.   Does anyone remember  
the procedure?


regards and happy New Year.

Kev

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Re: vinyl to CD

[Lloyd White]

Hi Kev, 

Have a look at 
http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/05/digitize/index.php/?lsrc=mwweek-0523
 
I have used an ordinary turntable and amp and something like Audion. There
are lots of similar programs available.

But be prepared to spend the rest of your life playing through all your
records and tapes. There is no fast way of doing it - and you can probably
buy a remastered CD for $5!
Lloyd 



> A friend has found an advert for a USB gizmo that can team up with a
> turntable and casette player to capture and burn CDs from  his
> collection @ about $130. I remember reading something on WAMUG
> about doing the same thing through the Mac without too much trouble.
> I can't find it in the archives.   Does anyone remember the procedure?
> 
> regards and happy New Year.
> 
> Kev
> 
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vinyl to CD

[KEVIN Lock]

A friend has found an advert for a USB gizmo that can team up with a 
turntable and casette player to capture and burn CDs from  his 
collection @ about $130. I remember reading something on WAMUG 
about doing the same thing through the Mac without too much trouble. 
I can't find it in the archives.   Does anyone remember the procedure?


regards and happy New Year.

Kev

Re: Turntable vinyl to CD

[David Noel]

-- 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
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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

[Ray Forma]

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

[Rob Davies]

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

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Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia.  Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. 
Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au.





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Re: Turntable vinyl to CD

[Daniel Kerr]

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
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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

[Brett Carboni]

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
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Re: Turntable vinyl to CD

[Paul Kitchener]

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

[Rob Findlay]

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

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Turntable vinyl to CD

[David Noel]

-- 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.