Archiving vinyl LP's to MP3

Marty_J

bob_a_builder wrote: »

And frankly with all the scratches, noise and pops, you'll get off the vinyl better off getting hold of a digital copy if you know what I mean
(after all you have paid for the music already )

Properly cared for vinyl should be pretty free from the scratches, noises and pops.

nooney

Thank you for all the advise Im going to take today to study it all

bob_a_builder

Properly cared for vinyl should be pretty free from the scratches, noises and pops

Mine was properly cared for, played once/twice and recorded to cassette tape many moons ago - then stored

Decided some time ago to go through and do as OP wants

But found the sound Quality compared with what we are used to now it just wasn't worth all the effort involved - and I didn't have the added expense of a new deck either

bob_a_builder

Not really. You only pay for the license for use of the copyrighted material. You don't own and have very little rights over the copyrighted material itself. Even ripping CDs to MP3 is still technically actually breaking the law.

technically, but in the real world theres a limit to the number of times I'm prepared to pay for the same thing
They'll be wanting to charge us for the number of times we play the damm thing soon

wanye

just posting to agree with the majority of people on here. if your hubby actually cares about his music collection, then he wouldnt be using some cheapo USB turntable. get a proper normal one (you can pick up a cheap but ok one from richer sounds and a good quality stanton cartridge for less than one of these nasty USB jobs)... plug this into the existing amplifier, then get a cable from the amp to go to the line in on the PC (itll either be twin phono to 3.5mm headphone jack or 6mm headphone jack to 3.5m depending on whether the amp has line out, or you have to use the headphone jack)

then use audacity (free, and more powerful than most of the junk you get with these usb jobs). hit play and record. once recorded, just adjust any levels, run a filter to clean up any scratches/pops/etc and save (as either 320kbps mp3 or higher, or in FLAC format.
then just make sure the ID3 tags are correct, so that tracks/artists/etc show up correctly in your favourite music manager program.

HTH