Cassette, vinyl to CD

I'm looking for software that will let me copy cassette tapes and vinyl records to CDs. I think I have to get the music to my hard drive and then burn onto a CD. Someone told me I should convert the music to MP3 for space reasons. Can someone please tell me all I need to know about all this? Thanks!

 

Just google "rip vinyl records"and there's tons of progs. I recently d/l'ed a free one but can't find it now

These programs all work thru your sound card's input jack and will also work for cassettes. I got the idea from Langalist or Techtv on what and how to use. Search their databases.

HTH

augie

BTW I'll keep looking in my disorganized drive.

 

Here it is. It's not free as I thought, but as I have over 500 jazz albums, I think that for me it would be worth it.

This was recommended by the peeps in previous post. Haven't had the time to try it. Will post back when I do.

There are also sound modifying progs out there, such as to get rid of hiss or skips. Haven't gotten there yet either and am not playing them till I record to CD.

augie

 

I use both WaveWorks and WaveRepair...

I think Waverepair is the best for me...

Record the music into a wav file.
(I have my turntables go through a mixer and then in the Line In of the sound card, you cannot plug your turntable directly in to the card, a pre-amp will do as well)

I then de-click it with WaveRepair (shareware, but worth the money)
and then convert it to MP3 with DBPowerAmp...

1 song in Wav format can be 50 to 100Mb while in MP3 format it is only 3 to 10Mb

Have fun

 

I use MusicMatch Jukebox. Seems to work fine for me. Record off my home amp. to CD.Besides it's free!

 

For copying I use Audiograbber (and Goldwave for eliminating noise and pops).

 

most important thing is that you can't plug your phono into the line in without some sort of amp, as exeter said.
build your own
http://www.paia.com/riaa.htm
Buy one
http://store.acousticsounds.com/category.cfm?id=67
or use your home amp to boost the signal and take a line out from that.

 

To run a turntable into the line-in of your computer, you need a phono pre-amp. This will do 2 things:

1 amplify the signal to the correct level
2 provide RIAA equalization to boost the low frequencies to the correct equalization.

I wouldn't convert to MP3 format if you want to retain the overall sound of vinyl.

 

Well, I am flummuxed. I started this thread on April 7, 2003, got some answers the same day, and found that augiedoggie had what I wanted. The link was to ripvinyl, which will do both vinyl and cassette tapes. I was quite remiss in not posting a thank-you...maybe that's why today's replies showed up all of a sudden. I've been using ripvinyl for my cassettes for over a year and like it a lot. Haven't tried my record collection yet, but I know that I will have to run a line from my stereo set (to which my turntable is connected) to my computer to do it. Thanks to everybody.

 

Lugztaz, FWIW, I keep a simple Excel spreadsheet record of any post I think may come on handy for me, or MG 'ers, at a later stage. It has just date I discovered the thread, thfread number, Description of thread, Subject, Operating system applicable and Links (Y/N) if links mentioned. Works for me, mainly W98SE and Xp stuff. Over 1300 entries so far. Uodate it nearly every day with the threads I write down in a Spirax notebook. Bazza
Tried to cut and paste example below, but it didn't work properly (## equals record number).

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