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 | volume | turntable | recording

Step 2: What you'll need

Before you even get started with this project, we recommend that you have the following:
  • A turntable, a phono preamp (or a turntable/pre-amp combo) and/or a cassette deck
  • A cable with two RCA plugs at one end and a 1/8-inch stereo plug at the other
  • Music-recording software
Music-recording software

Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.0 You'll need a software package to clean up your vinyl and cassette recordings, lift out the annoying scratches and pops, chop large music files into smaller ones, and burn the results to CD.

Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.0

Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 offers the most comprehensive and well-integrated suite of CD- and DVD-burning tools on the market.
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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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