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 6: Pick your software



The Recording Control output goes to your hard drive for recording, while the Volume Control signal goes to your sound card's line out, then to your speakers. Click to enlarge.
The analog-to-digital transfer of an album or cassette tape takes more effort than a routine digital-to-digital transfer. After all, you can't view the source content in Windows Explorer, and you can't drag and drop files, because so far you don't have any files. All you have are grooves cut into a vinyl platter, or magnetised iron oxide coated on acetate.

That's where software comes in. Products such as Roxio's Easy Media Creator and the Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition handle all aspects of the analog-to-digital transfer. Our GLI preamp came bundled with DAK's Wave MP3 Editor Pro, a US$19.95 package if bought separately. Whichever you choose, the software lets you select the input source -- presumably the Line In fader within the Volume Control applet window -- and the file's destination.

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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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