On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 06:39 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 05:31 am, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I have a lot of old interesting LPs which I would love to have on CDs. > > If somebody knows a way to play an LP into the PC and subsequently burn > > it to a CD I am very interested in learning how to do it. > > > Erik: > The only thing I can suggest (and there may be others who have better > suggestions) is to play the LPs on your record player and the pipe the output > to your sound card's input jack. I'm going to take a stab in the dark here > and say you can just take the "component out" from the record player/stereo > to the "input" on the sound card. Likely you'll need a set of RCA jack cables > and an RCA to 1/8-inch mini-jack adapter to do this. > > Another option would be to pipe the heaphone output to the input jack, but I'm > not sure if that would be at the correct volume, etc. Your best bet would be > to get some professional to do it for you... > John > I've actually been doing this on & off for the past year. I've got in excess of 400 classical albums that I'm putting to CD. I've been using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for recording & editing the captures to remove the snap crackle pop that is inherent in some of my "too well loved" albums. hardware is an Audio-Technica PL-50 turntable (it's got a nice onboard pre-amp) & an Ortofon NC cartridge into the line in of a SoundBlaster Live card. K3B worksforme to record the cleaned up audio to CD. Some other interesting tools I've seen (but not used) are phono-ripper (http://www.8ung.at/klappnase/phonoripper/phonoripper.html) and the previously mentioned Gnome Wave Cleaner (http://gwc.sourceforge.net/) -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx J.O.A.T. GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/C78F8B64 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = A8D5 7AFF CE88 4179 C792 D9A9 F197 2A15 C78F 8B64
