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I was in my local Circuit City this weekend and found a Record Turntable that can be played through the stereo OR, pluged into a computer. It comes with all the software to covert the sounds form the records and uploads them onto the computer.
Does any one have any experience with these things, Ive wanted something like this for a long time, but im not the most computer savy person on the planet. But i have hundreds of albums that i would like to convert to cd's so i can listen to them in the car.
Do these things work.
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Brilliant idea. I miss crackles and pops (and I'm not talking Rice Crispies either).  Digitally remastered cd's take the edge off some of the music for me.
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In a nutt shell, It will be like this.
You will connect the record player to your computer with their supllied connector.
Your computer becomes like a tape player. The software will have a record button. You will hit record and start your record player. The computer will save these recordings in a digital format and then you can burn them to a CD.
Usually, you have to split the songs up by stoping recording and starting again. (I am not familiar with the exact software) Or else you wind up with one big track. (All the songs in 1). There is a bit invloved in labeling everything and splitting the songs up into individual tracks. Not difficult, you just need to get a routine together. Feel free to PM if you need too.
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Sounds about right.
I imagine when you rip a cd to your computer, it has 'signals' which tells the computer "this is track 1" etc.
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Brilliant idea.
I miss crackles and pops (and I'm not talking Rice Crispies either).
Digitally remastered cd's take the edge off some of the music for me.
There are programs with effects that you can apply to any old CD song and give it that record player sound.
NOTHING replaces sitting in front of 2 speakers with an LP Mono and Stereo copy of Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band and cranking them up and listening to the difference! Thats pioneer right there. 
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Sounds about right.
I imagine when you rip a cd to your computer, it has 'signals' which tells the computer "this is track 1" etc.
Yeah, sometimes. However the breaks in some songs throw it off and that creates a sucky situation. Or like Pink Floyd the tracks just blend together.
Really the only "true" way is to sit and jam away drinking beer etc. and hitting "split tracks" or Stop Record. 
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NOTHING replaces sitting in front of 2 speakers with an LP Mono and Stereo copy of Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band and cranking them up and listening to the difference! Thats pioneer right there.
I have quite a few Jethro Tull albums that do that
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Adey - You got it!
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One good program for cutting up big mp3 files into sparate songs is Audioslicer (MacOSX): web page . There are more, even for those of you who still uses Windoze... just do a Google search.
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Piper you are definatly going to hate the future huh? Now that Mac and PC are becoming compatible? Just as I was learning to love and appreciate Mac, I realized its over. Windows has begun the infestation with Macs approval. Believe me, I wish it were different. But here come the viruses.
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Excellent. Looks like this is something that this computer challanged person could master.
Finally, i can transfer all my old (70's) records to CD.
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Excellent. Looks like this is something that this computer challanged person could master.
Finally, i can transfer all my old (70's) records to CD.
Yes sir, it's not that hard and it is a bit of fun too if you ask me.
P.S. You can do this with any record player that has RCA outputs. Just get a RCA to 1/8" stereo jack and plug it into your computers input on the sound card. Then use Roxio or Nero etc. to capture new audio. Really you can record just about anything that has an output.
Might save you a few bucks. Just F.Y.I.
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Windows has begun the infestation
Ya know...I've found the opposite to be true. My Wintel family is happily transitioning to Macs.
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I just have a turntable hooked up to a stereo and signal out from the reciever to the sound card. record to cool edit pro and cutting out the individual tracks later is a 2 minute job. But i usually take a lot longer because i also like to tweak the recording to get better sound. But thats all you have to do and it's plenty quick. And there are plenty of freeware apps that will do the same. i just use the cursor to hilight the track, then "save selection as". The track seperations are obvious because there are blank spots with no waveform. Of course some songs have parts in them where the music stops for a second or 2, and that you have to beware of so you don't say a song as 2 seperate ones. But that software that detects it would do the same anyway, and at least here you can put the cursor in front of the dead part and play it to see if then next segment is the continuation of the song or a different song. It's obviously good to be familiar with the music so you know if any of them are like that. But you can also visually see the length of the dead spot so if it's no where near as long as the time between songs then it would be suspect as a song with a dead quiet part in it.
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Sounds like the table you are looking at is much more automated than the rest of these guys are thinking... an A/D converter in the table itself would save a bunch of amplification steps and sound quite good while keeping the record imperfections that these baby boomers love so much. I don't think it'll name all the tracks for you but at least you won't need to sit there the whole time trying to time the queing and edit the final mp3...
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Oh I forgot to add to the Mac issue... as Apple stuff gains market share there will be a corresponding rise in Malware/Spyware/Viruses... gotta accept that.
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Yeah all those mac people who use the virus thing as their main selling point... so sorry! Anyway, about the record thing. My MP3 player (creative Zen nano "plus") came with a patch cord and has an input on it. I can plug it into any audio source and rip directly to MP3, that's the "plus" part I think over a regular Zen nano. Anywhoo, might kill two birds with one stone getting that. Basically, play a record on your stereo, and plug the MP3 player into the headphone jack and boom, done. Might still take some editing, etc. I plan on getting a few songs off some old tapes into digital using my walkman 
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Benny, you would be better off taking a pre-amp or aux. out of your stereo instead of a headphone out. The headphone out takes the pre-amp out and boosts it will a small amplifier. A pre-amp out would be cleaner and give you more headroom.
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I think if you look hard enough nowadays a lot of the companies are already doing "this" in a big commercial way and releasing a lot of the "old" albums...... NOT digitally remastered just a "new" CD version of the old stuff. I have spent a few hours buried in the rock section at HMV and was surprised just which "old" albums were actually there!
Same sounds without quite so much fun/grief.... beleive me it will be lots of both doing it yourself!
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Ok, this is what I did a couple of years ago, downloaded magix audio converter, plugged hifi into pc via the microphone socket, spent weeks downloading albums and tapes,had over 500 at the time, but the ex took half of them, got bored. Downloaded a couple of download sites, now can search for the albums/tracks I want/have got, and can have a CD/MP3, done in 15 minuets instead of over 11/2 hours.Easy.
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Reido,
The RCA jacks will not work correctly most of the time from turntabls. Magnetic vs ceramis cartridges, imbalanced impedance and other techno-babble.
The best way is to run it into a stereo, take a record output line and insert that into the sound card "line In" jack, NOT the mic jack.
Ok, how about some sharing now guys? Anyone have Pure Prarie Leagues FIRST album in digital format? This is the one with Country Song, Picking to beat the devil and I'll fix your flat tire Merle?
I cannot find it anywhere and there are even no references to it, it was a very cool album.
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
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Yeah all those mac people who use the virus thing as their main selling point... so sorry!
I'm a long time Windows user and have a degree in electronics. I switched to Mac 2 years ago and have ZERO problems... no crashes, leave it on all the time, goes to sleep & doesn't forget, on and on... The fact is everytime you execute something in Windows you technically re-write the operating system through the registry. This is basically what makes it vulnerable to viruses. There is no such counterpart in the Mac. Perhaps someday a real virus will come, but in the meantime, I'm just smiling. The computer becomes a real tool instead of something you have to constantly nurse.
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I was in my local Circuit City this weekend and found a Record Turntable that can be played through the stereo OR, pluged into a computer. It comes with all the software to covert the sounds form the records and uploads them onto the computer.
Does any one have any experience with these things, Ive wanted something like this for a long time, but im not the most computer savy person on the planet. But i have hundreds of albums that i would like to convert to cd's so i can listen to them in the car.
Do these things work.
Yup got it myself. Takes a little bit of practice but does the job.
Can't think of the name of it at the moment.
The downside is you have to do it in 'real' time. i.e play the whole of each record 45 mins per LP ?
If you do it today you MIGHT regret it. If you CAN'T do it tomorrow you WILL regret it.
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jeez I thought I could get anything... I'm on the job tho.
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Turns out that's Prairie League's 3rd album in 92. "Two Lane Highway" I'll see about gettin it.
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Oops, iTunes is way off. That album was out in 75, making it the second after "Bustin Out". I only have Amie and Two Lane Highway...
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Oh I know NOW macs are the way to go, or what is that other OS people use? whatever... My computer is company issue (ie: free) so untill I have to get one of my own, I'll just keep this
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About a year ago I ran accross a great piece of equipment on ebay that I just had to buy. Its a Harman Kardon CDR25 dual disc burner with inputs for cassette and LP playback. Since then I have transferred several thousand LPS and Cassette tapes to cd for myself and friends. These things are great, check them out at http://www.harmankardon.com/product_supp...d_region=EUROPE
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Oops, iTunes is way off. That album was out in 75, making it the second after "Bustin Out". I only have Amie and Two Lane Highway...
Yea, it's pretty hard to find the first one. Even on their website, it's not listed as one of their albums. I know it esists as I used to have it, as well as on a cassette that my buttfaced nephew borrowed and never returned.
They just had a concert here in Rochester, they actually have a new album out with the original band, including the pedal steel player, very cool band.
"I'll fix your flat tire Merle," is one of all time favorite songs.
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