Vinyl to Digital

[Music Head]

Finally out of the procrastination stage.
Ready to start this project of transferring my vinyl to cd/mp3 format.
Looking for suggestions as to hardware/software to accomplish it.
I figure it should only take me a few years. (3500 albums)

[carbon_psycho]

all the best

[Music Head]

I take it nobody's got any experience at this?

[Tiggi]

Not me, I'm afraid...

I fully intend my vinyl collection (nothing like the size of yours BTW) to be in use until they nail me in.

[jwee5467]

Firstly, why on earth would you want to do that? i mean, you got the vinyls as a part of being vintage and authentic and having very good quality music? surely, you wouldn't want to give that up. and i mean, even if you were to, apple's lossless decoder only captures about 50% quality of Cds. Imagine the decline in quality of vinyls; even with good speakers/headset.

[Music Head]

Firstly, why on earth would you want to do that? i mean, you got the vinyls as a part of being vintage and authentic and having very good quality music? surely, you wouldn't want to give that up. and i mean, even if you were to, apple's lossless decoder only captures about 50% quality of Cds. Imagine the decline in quality of vinyls; even with good speakers/headset.

good question jwee.
With a stupid answer.
One of those why would you climb a mountain things. Because it's there.
Seriously, just something to do over the long winter months I guess. Technology has been out there for a few years now and I have been waiting for it to become affordable, which is always relevant I suppose. I would never get rid of my vinyl. I still listen to them every day. And there's no way I would ever convert all of my albums, even if I wanted to. The end result would be having some of those precious tracks on my mp3, without having to repurchase. As far as the sound quality, I have no idea. Do you have experience to know it is way below original? If so I may reconsider. Sure wish I could hear some stuff that has gone through this process.

thanks for your input

[trbc08]

I have a turn table which has the ability to convert vinyl to MP3. While I have never used this feature myself, MP3 is a lossy format which means that it compresses and loses quality for the sake of a smaller file size. The highest bit rate of MP3 that I can think of (320) is, I think, something like close to a third of CD quality. As such, there's a significant loss in quality, though it seems that most people don't really notice.

[Beach]

I don't believe that it's necessary that the digital files be mp3 though.
I think that you can actually record from those types of turntables, via the USB port, to WAV format, a friend of mine has been doing this with his Jazz 78s for years, thus losing no quality and then burning the WAV files to CD after editing (where required). :wink:
I have Adobe Audition on here for doing the editing and use Nero 6 to burn the CDs - I don't like the later versions of Nero.

[bryce]

if your as cheap as me turn tables might seem kinda spendy... i did just see a vinal to cd/mp3/wmp/wav format record player for less than one hundred bucks the other day. i don't know what it's called but i'd look into something like that.

[Beach]

if your as cheap as me turn tables might seem kinda spendy... i did just see a vinal to cd/mp3/wmp/wav format record player for less than one hundred bucks the other day. i don't know what it's called but i'd look into something like that.

That's about the standard price for them over here, Bryce. Around the $100-120 (AUD) mark.