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I was at Costco today and bought a turntable/MP3 converter they had for $100 off the normal price (I guess its a discontinued model). Anyway, I'm just now trying it out with some of my old vinyl. First on the plater is Neil Diamond, The Jazz Singer! Now I can listen to all my old records (and I have a lot) on my iPhone!
 
Basil,

Does the software bring down any of the Meta Data? It may not be possible due to the vinyl, before digital, but I didn't know if you could search through a database for that info, rather than typing it all in.

Also, does this one eliminate the pops and hisses?

What was the Costco item number?
 
No, the software doesn't bring in Meta Data, you have to enter that manually. But if you have iTunes and tell the file what Album it is, then iTunes will find the "Album Art". I'm still playing with it so haven't figured out everything yet. It looks like it should elimiate noice but not sure how that works yet either. I tried to export as a .MP3 file but is doesn't see to do that directly either. Sigh. Gotta play with the software a while to figure it all out. Not sure what the COSCO number is.
 
I have a program called Sound Forge. Sony owns it now. It used to be more of a pro audio program, but Sony has added vinyl pop removal. There is a wide array of sampling rates depending on your sound card (my limit is 96khz @ a 24 bit depth). It will also save directly to MP3. I found it with a rebate and once I got the check, I had paid 1 penny for it.

Sample those records at a high rate, you don't want to do it again. :yesnod:
 
I've been using my Ion brand TTUSB10 turntable for a little over a year now. It came with softwear called EZ Vinyl Converter (which makes direct transfers unedited) and Audacity (for cleaning up track noise and other mods). I've almost never used the Audacity softwear, since a mild amount of vinyl noise (to my ear) isn't a minus and is usually a plus when listening to music. Also of you have a major amount of noise that softwear is too labor intensive, because you have to manually remove each pop/scratch noise.

I have a lot of music that isn't available on cd, let alone digitally. This USB turntable is invaluable for that stuff! The one thing I haven't done yet is try and transcribe a couple of 78s I have. Audacity has a speed conversion that can do that, but I've got so much vinyl in 33 and 45 rpm to transcribe I haven't gotten to them yet.

To use my softwear you have to have iTunes. Once you have the album/song in iTunes you can use it to export or burn an MP3. Either way it's very easy, although I've never exported an MP3 except to my iPod using iTunes. I used to use Windows Media for MP3 players before I got an iPod. If your softwear is not working for MP3 exports, you might try exporting to Windows Media and then to an MP3 player.
 
I have been using Diamond Cut Audio's DC6 for a few years to burn CD's of my albums for a number of years. It cleans up so much of the problems with well-used vinyl. Now I want to use it copy my 45's before I give them to America On Wheels for the juke box we have there...we are trying to be able to make the selections match events with music from the Big Band era into the 70's...
 
Does it separate the individual songs? In other words, does converting one side of a record result in, say, 5 four-minute mp3 files or one 20 minute mp3 file?

I hooked an old turntable up to a computer a few years ago and had to edit all the mp3's manually to separate out the individual tracks.
 
I think that the new software does the songs individually.

Basil, what brand name is your unit?
 
Brosky said:
I think that the new software does the songs individually.

Basil, what brand name is your unit?
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Looks like it is the same as Daveatmoon - ion. I have not had a chance to play with it much though.
 
Yes the software that comes with the Ion separates it into tracks.... provided that it can find distinct tracks.... All the segues on Basil's later Beatles albums will freak out the software and then you've got a mess if you are trying to split them all out as named. And then you still have to listen and re-name every file because it only knows "track#1, track#2", etc...

Try to get it to split out the tracks on a Frank Zappa album and your head will explode. So my policy now is... If it is a clear-cut album with standard 3 second grooves between tracks then I use the software. Otherwise I use Audacity to record an entire side and then cut and paste sections into individual files...

gets a little tedious but it works.
 
20 almost complete...I need to sit down and catch a bunch of the middle era WakaJawaka/Chunga's kind of "jazz is not dead it just smells funny" stuff - i've got the LP's but I haven't converted them yet.
 
What gender is your firstborn, Don? :devilgrin: :jester:

Or... insert your credit card in drive A... :smirk:
 
I've been thinking about an analog to digital converter to burn some LP's, cassettes, and reel-to-reel stuff. Anyone have any luck with these? Suggestions?

Mickey
 
Unfortunately my first born is no longer with us.











Do you take visa?
 
Mickey Richaud said:
I've been thinking about an analog to digital converter to burn some LP's, cassettes, and reel-to-reel stuff. Anyone have any luck with these? Suggestions?

Mickey
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Hey Mickey,
The toughest thing would be the LP's. If you have a stereo with phono inputs, I'd just run the preamp outs to your computer. Depending on your soundcard, that should be all you need.
 
GregW said:
Mickey Richaud said:
I've been thinking about an analog to digital converter to burn some LP's, cassettes, and reel-to-reel stuff. Anyone have any luck with these? Suggestions?

Mickey
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Hey Mickey,
The toughest thing would be the LP's. If you have a stereo with phono inputs, I'd just run the preamp outs to your computer. Depending on your soundcard, that should be all you need.
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Starting new thread, so we don't hijack this one.
 
I finished converting the album "The Jazz Singer (Sound Track) by Neil Diamond. I used the EZ Converter program Dave mentioned. It worked like a charm! Since the turntable was only $69, it was money well spent if only for the convenience of converting - I just plugged the Turntable into my MacBook (USB) and ran the software. The only minor thing is that you have to click a button in the software between tracks to tell the software to start stop one track and start another - but that's pretty easy to do.

I can't wait to convert the rest of my Vinyl collection.
 
I have a Sony cd burner hooked up to my stereo system. It works very well.
I have some 10,000 LP's so burning them all will take some time.
 
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