Recording from vinyl to cd's?

[Chakolate]

Hi,

I have a largish collection of vinyl lp's that I hardly listen to any more
because I've gotten spoiled by cd's. I need a program that will let me
record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or to the computer on the
way to a cd.

I went to pricelessware.org and found EAC, and it looks like what I need,
but I'm a total neophyte at this and wanted to make sure I'm on the right
track.

Has anybody used this ware for this purpose, is it good, and do you have
any advice?

TIA

Chakolate

 

[kline]

Hi,

I have a largish collection of vinyl lp's that I hardly listen to any more
because I've gotten spoiled by cd's. I need a program that will let me
record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or to the computer on the
way to a cd.

I went to pricelessware.org and found EAC, and it looks like what I need,
but I'm a total neophyte at this and wanted to make sure I'm on the right
track.

Has anybody used this ware for this purpose, is it good, and do you have
any advice?

TIA

Chakolate

Not used EAC, but a brief look at the web page and it appears to be a
utility for ripping audio files from a CD.

Audacity is a multi track audio recorder and will be able to do what you
need.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

HTH

Kline

 

[Onno Voors]

I went to pricelessware.org and found EAC, and it looks like what I
need, but I'm a total neophyte at this and wanted to make sure I'm on
the right track.

Has anybody used this ware for this purpose, is it good, and do you
have any advice?

Yes, yes, and no (too long ago).
There are guides for EAC, but I don't know if there is any for recording
audio.

 

[dadiOH]

Hi,

I have a largish collection of vinyl lp's that I hardly listen to
any more because I've gotten spoiled by cd's. I need a program
that will let me record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or
to the computer on the way to a cd.

I went to pricelessware.org and found EAC, and it looks like what I
need, but I'm a total neophyte at this and wanted to make sure I'm
on the right track.

It's not what you want. See my dandies below.

--
dadiOH
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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
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[Lefty Mills]

Hi,

... I need a program that will let me
record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or to the computer on the
way to a cd.

<snip>

I use Audiograbber v1.8.3 which is now freeware. Go to file -> line in
sampling . What I like about it is you see two volume meters - one for
each ear.
PC World has it here-
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6066,00.asp

Lefty

 

[Chakolate]

Hi,

I have a largish collection of vinyl lp's that I hardly listen to any
more because I've gotten spoiled by cd's. I need a program that will
let me record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or to the
computer on the way to a cd.

Thanks to all who replied. I'll check out your suggestions.

Chakolate

 

[Matt]

I have a largish collection of vinyl lp's that I hardly listen to any more
because I've gotten spoiled by cd's. I need a program that will let me
record off the vinyl, either directly to a cd, or to the computer on the
way to a cd.

I went to pricelessware.org and found EAC, and it looks like what I need,
but I'm a total neophyte at this and wanted to make sure I'm on the right
track.

Has anybody used this ware for this purpose, is it good, and do you have
any advice?

Not quite - I used EAC to normalize, denoise and track divide an
incompetently made CD, the principle is similar.

EAC can record a WAV to HD (as can many other programs), then the
process WAV function lets you play around with it. The noise profile
based reduction may be able to take down surface noise, but not pops -
and the click/pop reduction in EAC is designed for hard edged digital
clicks from CD ripping errors, and cannot lock on to a record click.

Manual removal of a few real whoppers, using "frequency preserving
interpolate" to slice them out of a highly zoomed view, can be very
effective, avoiding any audible discontinuity.