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Posted by smurphy on 15 May 2009 - 4:05pm.
I have found a way to rip my tapes and vinyl to my ipod and burn them as CDs. I am so excited. This weekend my Camera Obscura and Pale SAaints Vinyl and my Suede and Auteurs tapes are going to be squirted onto my mP3 player. Lawks.
Anyone else excited?
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I'm excited
...because I've just ordered some acoustic treatment for my music room to help me finish a musical project I've been labouring over off and on for 2 years!
Intrigued might be a better word
I need to do this with the racks of vinyl owned by my wife and I. Any members of the Massive have a preference for any given turntable which turns vinyl to MP3?
Oh, and a word of caution, smurphy - a friend of mine got so obsessed with digitising his (startlingly huge) vinyl collection that he barely emerged for months. Consider a farewell tour of local pubs... or invite tasteful friends around for an evening of rip and burn...
I'm excited for both of you!
It's fun doing things that involve wires and plugs.
I recently
got a little box thing that can convert tapes and vinyl to MP3.
Problem is that the only place I can connect the gramophone to the computer is through the headphone socket.
Means I can't hear a f***in' thing and have no idea when to start recording or pause at the end of each song!
Oh well, back to the incomprehensible instruction booklet later...
But surely…
… the headphone socket (I presume you mean on the computer) is an output, not an input? Does this method definitely work for you? You can buy audio output/usb input connectors, which might be a solution (assuming you have a usb input)
I'm about a third of the way through...
... a similar project to convert my VHS tapes to DVD. I swore I wouldn't let it take over my life, so I resigned myself to the fact it would take over a year and I just do one 3-hour tape per night, maybe a few more at weekends... editing the ads out is very satisfying!
I want to keep the ads
I've been holding back doing a mass conversion because I don't know what to do with the adverts. I've got tapes going back to 1980 and, just like old magazines, looking at the ads and trailers can be more interesting than looking at the programmes themsleves.
Markers
Leave 'em in but put markers so you can skip them easily if you want to. With my editing software it is very easy - Sony Vegas Movie Studio (though it is a pretty complex bit of software generally). I don't think you can do it with MS Movie Maker.
I know there's been
debate about doing this but there's several threads about digitising vinyl on the board worth doing a search for fuller details.
I use a grififn i mic connected from my amp to my usb port on laptop (no sound card opn little computers)and I have rega planer 2 turntable which is ace and keeps trundling along.
Cheers
Will search. Apologies for repetition, I say, apologies for repetition.
Gordon (below): Quite agree, but the turntable doesn't work very well in the car, and with a tour looming, I'd like the option of listening in binary.
problem solved
Does she come with it?
If so, the deal's off :-)
They'll get scratched to buggery.
Where are the sleeves?
Typical.
Anyway, how do they work out 'up to' two hours?
Can you get 40 singles in there?
2 hours
due to the scratched nature of the disc I reckon.
iMic
Yeah, that works for me (also from a Planar 2, as it happens); although I record it onto minidisc first due to computer being in a different room to hi-fi. I usually run it through Final Vinyl on the computer, (it's freeware) which makes it easier to split the tracks up.
Er why?
Just sit down and spend the time, with a couple of bottles of wine and enjoy the majesty that is vinyl.
convenience
It's simply a case of convenience. The sound quality can't improve (unless you spend a lot of time - and I mean a lot of time getting rid of the clicks by hand) but if you have all the tracks digitised you can put them on ipods, listen in the car, make compilation CDs and access them whenever you want without faffing about with the turntable.
Personal YouTube
i would like to know how to get excerpts,snippets from my favourite dvd's and keep them on my hard drive - then i would get excited!
Well I'm most excited by your...
Pale Saints rippage, PM incoming!