Recording my old records onto CD.

[Ella]

I want to put many of my old vynil records onto my hardisk.

I have proved the concept by using WinME's sound recorder, but this defaults to only one minutes file use. Can I extend this to get a whole album on one file?

Alternatively, can I buy a program that will allow me to do this easily. REAL Jukebox and Win. Media Player are installed but don't seem to have any way of helping.

[150Driver]

I think the best tool for this is Adaptec's Easy CD Creator Deluxe. It includes a rather natty prog to remove audio flaws. You can get it from all good PC stores.

[Mac the Knife]

Ella - go to http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au/ and get LP Recorder and LP Ripper. Superb no-muss, no-fuss software designed to do exactly what you want and no more. Not expensive; small company that has however been around for a while (lots of fans) and very friendly personal after-sales service from nice guys who you can actually talk to personally. Free updates with email notification.

Team this up with Tord Jansson's free BladeEnc Blade's MP3 Encoder available at http://bladeenc.mp3.no/ and off you go.

Cheers

[spannersatcx]

You will need a very big hard disk if you want to put lots of vinyls on there! If you want to listen to them on your hi-fi use something like EZCD Creator from ROXIO (http://www.roxio.com) it includes a cable to attach your turntable to your sound card as well and then put them onto a CDR (copyright permitting of course) if you want to turn them to mp3's or WMA files then ezcd or nero (http://www.ahead.de) or windoz media player will suffice. ;)

[PPRuNe Dispatcher]

You might want to clean up the recording once you've got it onto your hard disk. A program I use is DC-Art Millennium which although fairly expensive is superb. DC-Art 32 is also brilliant and considerably cheaper. Both of them will get rid of clicks, rumble etc.

Their website is http://www.diamondcut.com/

--Mik

[KwikPhix]

There is some usefull gen here: http://www.sacg.solis.co.uk/~abcomp/lp-cdr.htm

[malanda]

If you want a good, free, recording (+ much more) program, download yourself a copy of CDex. (from www.cdex.n3.net, (http://www.cdex.n3.net,) IIRC)

Just for the record, if you really want to use sound recorder, just reuse an old .wav file of the right length. You can create one by recording a 1 minute file, then splicing it into itself the required number of times.

[Steamhead]

I Have been using the shareware product by
Clive Backham which is totally dedicated to
transfering records to CD.
It is very good.Try it at:-
http:/www.sacg.solis.co.uk/~abcomp/wavrep.htm
Regards

[Ella]

Thanks for all your replies. I will check them all out.

[sanjosebaz]

malanda:There is a comma in your cdex URL - I suggest you edit it out!

[ 29 October 2001: Message edited by: sanjosebaz ]