Vinly to mp3

Does anyone in the 'ham have means of ripping vinyl records to mp3?? or anyone know where i can get this done? i really miss listening to my lionel richie discography. cheers

Buy a usb turntable. Google usb turntable comes up with a range of prices.

I only have a couple of records I wanna rip.

Fair enough, must be someone can do it for you.

You can buy a UBS interface which runs from your mixer to your laptop quite cheaply. I bought mine in Maplin for £30ish and it works fine.

If you have a record player with a headphone jack, or an amp with a headphone or cassette output you dont need any special equipment.

Just take a line out of the headphone socket/tapeout on your amp, plug it into you "line in" on your computer.

Then record it in any audio software. Simples.

Use Audacity, a recording programme FREE from Cnet downloads website. I copied all my vinyl using this to huge success.

Simply run a line from your computer to your mixer's 'tape' output, and a line from the computers headphone jack to the mike input in the mixer and you can record any sound from your computer via your mixer back to your computer onto Audacity. The possibilities are endless. Hope this helps.

Heres the link for downloading the Audacity programme:

http://download.cnet.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html?tag=mncol

Save files as WAV rather the mp3 as the sound quality is better. Mp3 files are too compressed.

In the meantime search for your required albums via
http://www.captaincrawl.com/
alls fair as you have already paid for the vinyl......

Save files as WAV rather the mp3 as the sound quality is better. Mp3 files are too compressed.

Way excessive.

A typical pop song Wav, 16bit 44khz is about 70mb if I remember correctly. What a horrendous waste of space.

Youd be hard pressed to notice the compression/artefacts on a 320kbit mp3.

320kbit mp3 files are the best ones to use.
all djs who run on cdj format use 320.
good sound quality - less space used - sorted.

I can do it. There is a deck in my house with usb port and also has software for doing what you want. What tunes are they?

Does anyone in the 'ham have means of ripping vinyl records to mp3?? or anyone know where i can get this done? i really miss listening to my lionel richie discography. cheers

wind-up merchant. you have a load of 7" hardcore records that you want to listen to on your portable music playing device, is that correct? lionel richie, my arse.

busted! cheers nyquil, theres only really 1 12" i'm desperate to listen to at the moment. are you south bham based?

moseley..right in the center 4 houses up from farquar road . ill be back thursday evening, at a my bros wedding until then. drop me your number via pm

If you have a record player with a headphone jack, or an amp with a headphone or cassette output you dont need any special equipment.

Just take a line out of the headphone socket/tapeout on your amp, plug it into you "line in" on your computer.

Then record it in any audio software. Simples.

Whatever you do, don't do this.

moseley..right in the center 4 houses up from farquar road . ill be back thursday evening, at a my bros wedding until then. drop me your number via pm

pm sent!

Whatever you do, don't do this.

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The noise flaw would be so high doing it that way you'd be lucky if you had any music left beyond the hiss.

a little USB audio interface would be far better than the line inputs on a PC.

The line in on a modern soundcard can record at 24bit 96khz and around 106db signal to noise ratio.

About ten years ago you it was really useful to upgrade standard soundcards. They still did CD quality, but often the SNR was really poor, so you would get noisy sound with poor dynamics. But these days the standard on board sound is usually as good as a specific audio interface (records at double CD quality).

Audio interface just gives you more connectivity really.

If youve had bad experiences in the past, either your onboard soundcard was old & naff. Or your audio input settings were wrong. Like setup as "mic" instead of "line in" or if you had the "boost" switched on.

Also remember if you take the output from a headphone jack, the volume should be on FULL.

The noise flaw would be so high doing it that way you'd be lucky if you had any music left beyond the hiss.

a little USB audio interface would be far better than the line inputs on a PC.

The sample rates of an inbuilt soundcard has is only part of the issue. The quality of the A/D is more important, and this is where your noise flaw will be created. Obviously latency isn't an issue when it comes to recording in your vinyl.

There would be little point recording at 96k unless you had a decent dither to take you back down to 44.1K. The maths of it simply doesn't work and it alter the sound at the other end.

You should only output a volume at around 3/4 the maximum output so that you leave plenty of headroom in your recording. Levels can always be increased once you have a healthy recorded source via compression or normalisation.

I may well just be lucky enough to have decent quality audio interfaces, far beyond that of a general consumer level, and I would personally find it very difficult to use anything other than that. I wouldn't recommend someone replicating my studio just to copy some vinyl either.

If you were going to do it, I'd get a USB turntable from Maplins, as they are a snitch at the price, and you can always sell it on once you're done.

Surely its the signal to noise ratio thats the important thing here?

I did loads of vinyl copying a few years ago using a soundcard that was more like 90db SNR, the results were still pretty good. The dynamics of the old (analogue recorded) records all came through nicely.

Im sure 2/3 output from a headphone jack would be fine, especially with a good soundcard. But the less output you use, the more noise you are likely to get. And I have never ever found I ran into headroom/distortion issues. Some old geezer recording technician told me to always use full, so thats the way ive always done it, and it seemed to work fine.