When you're ready to begin the transfer, play the LP or tape and hit the Record button in your software. You can, of course, save directly to CD, which you might do if you want to save an entire LP or tape without making any modifications. If you do, however, you miss out on many of the potential advantages of transferring first to hard drive and later to CD. If your LPs suffer from what's known as the Kellogg Effect -- those snap, crackle, and pop noises -- you can eliminate them via software. Or, if your cassette has a song or two you'd rather not commit to disc, you can delete unwanted tracks easily. All this and more is possible using the software mentioned here -- if you copy the source material to your hard drive first. When you're done, you can burn to CD.
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In Nero Wave Editor, the diagonal red arrow points to a "pop" in one of the pauses, which you can delete before transferring the file to CD. Click to enlarge. |
In this window of DAK's Wave MP3 Editor Pro, red vertical bars indicate pauses between tunes. Click to enlarge. |
If the copied material is one large file, split it into multiple files before burning to CD. Each file will become a separate track on the CD -- the digital equivalent of the spirals between tracks on an LP. The Track Tracker option in DAK's Wave MP3 Editor Pro handles this task with ease. When you're done, you can make one or more copies to CD in a format supported by your software.
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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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