ok what do i need to transfer vinyl to mp3?

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because i'm contemplating starting a blog to share my collection of early country and bluegrass records.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 August 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

i have an ibook g4. i need a new record player. i don't have an analog/digital converter or anything. what software do i need? what hardware?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

a question about digitizing stuff from vinyl
What do you use to rip vinyl?
Dumb Question: how do you convert songs from vinyl to mp3 file?
vinyl to CD
Converting Old Vinyl To MP3's

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

i do this using an rca-to-1/8th inch phone plug into an imic. it's very simple to use, and it comes with some basic recording software that does the trick. you would probably want some better equipment if you were doing a reissue of some obscure 1960s psychedelic record from brazil (a la mode satwa), but for an mp3 blog and personal use, it's suitable.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason i needed to spend several thousand dollars but then i'm a bit obsessive about this sort of thing

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really know how good it it is record-player-wise, but I bet the simplest way is to use one of thes e USB turntables.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

You record in using a soundcard line in from the phonos on your turntable using recording sofware like Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net then you trim and split the tracks up and export them as mp3.
-- Jarlr'mai (jimmy.parke...), May 6th, 2005.

the audacity program is free and fun to use and has a cool 'record what you hear' function that allows you to record whatever is playing on your soundcard

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Adobe Audition has some very nice noise reduction/crackle eliminator functions if your vinyl is a bit worse for wear.

― lexurian (lexurian), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

hey am, once you've ripped your records you should sell them all to me at a reasonable price.

for ripping from vinyl i use audacity and a $3 cord i got from radio shack.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

audacity and a $3 cord i got from radio shack

same here

very nice noise reduction/crackle eliminator functions

I had tried to use the program called Clean in the past and it did take out static but it made everything else sound too muddy, no highs and lows

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, using crackle eliminators removes more than just the crackles. Not recommended.

― Ryan Osborne (ryeosborne), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

My CD player will record to CD-r Audio.

This works for me, although it is plainly an outmoded way of digitising vinyl.

So that's of little interest. However I wanted to contribute to this thread in order to say: I don't much care how you do your digitising, Amaterurist, but I'm very keen to see your blog plan come to fruition.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I use Cool Edit Pro - it has a good filter for removing loud pops without altering anything else, but as with most programs the crackle/noise filter tends to do more harm than good, so I don't bother using that. Generally as long as I clean the records as much as possible before recording they come out OK.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

wow, sorry for duplicating a bunch of existing threads, but thanks too for all the info. i'll first have to get myself a better turntable, and then i can concentrate on which route to use to digitize the vinyl.... are all the software packages you guys have mentioned mac osx friendly?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

my answer:

http://www.biwacity.com/upload/43924/cafe-clock-cr350.jpg

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

There are some decent cleaning tools, like Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. You'll probably need something like that if you are ripping old vinyl. The chances that you can get a clean recording without one or more of the four malicious elements (turntable hum, hiss, crackles and clicks) are slim. Obviously too much cleaning can choke the sound, but used the right way it can really improve things.

If you have a good audio editor you can also smooth out the really large crackles (which, when you zoom in, take up like 0.001 second) until they are unnoticeable.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

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