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DIY: Vinyl resurrection - Turn LPs and tapes into digital media files

By John Woram, CNET.com on 26 May 2005

Tags: cassette | diy | lps | resurrection | tapes into digital media files | vinyl | step | turntable | volume | recording

Step 1: Getting started

Let's play a word-association game. If we say "Ozzy Osbourne" and you say "Black Sabbath," chances are there's a crateful of treasured vinyl somewhere among your possessions. Those LPs may be classics to you, but they're out of place in today's CD- and MP3-driven world.



No need to freak out, though -- just dig out the old bandanna, turn on the lava lamp, and fire up some incense. We're transporting yesterday's albums and cassette tapes into the digital age.

This story originally appeared in Computer Shopper magazine.

schmee
08/06/2005 09:11 PM

hhmm, in recent years there have been a number of turntables available marketed specifically & purely for this purpose, made to hook straight up to your pc &, I assume, with bundled software. Funnily enough, this being cnet & all, I thought this article was going to be product review & comparison of some of these items. That would be info that's not readily available & would be really useful.

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schmee
08/06/2005 09:18 PM

a s sume, a-s-sume, a.s.sume good grief, shocking, lame, inept, stupid censoring software on this site, unfknblvbl LOL, you can tell it's an american parent company. parents don't have an option, they have a duty & a need to run content filtering software, don't inflict his crud on the rest of us.

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jmallet
30/09/2005 05:36 PM

I Have turned some of my LP's to 32 Bit CD Music using Software "Goldwave". The Music comes from my HiFi Amplifier and connects to my Sound Card in my computer, I setup Goldwave to accept the music which starts to come in. Afterwards I save this to my harddrive and later burn to my CDs.

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