Putting LPs onto CD?

[GLOC]

To the gathered intelligent masses on YD, I have just had an email from my Mum who is contemplating putting all her Mum's LPs (my Gran) onto CD.

They have a record deck which I am sure has a headphone socket or phono out and a pretty basic PC.

What else do I need, hardware, software? Oh and I know she needs loads of time to do it

Regards

[Steven]

Originally Posted by GLOC

To the gathered intelligent masses on YD, I have just had an email from my Mum who is contemplating putting all her Mum's LPs (my Gran) onto CD.

They have a record deck which I am sure has a headphone socket or phono out and a pretty basic PC.

What else do I need, hardware, software? Oh and I know she needs loads of time to do it

Regards

and when you have told gareth can you explain to me in words of one syllable please
steven

[thehappychappy]

Lots of time and some software cooledit / Adobe Audition?

or a USB Turntable deck :-) and lots of time!

Then something to burn the MP's to CD, usually just Nero or the like.

Time is your biggest enemy here.

Lots of LP's / Cassettes dont convert very well as you end up with quiet bits in the tracks being converted into two seperate tracks and you need to join the tracks back together.


Hence a decent bit of software will let you put the LP on, record the lot and should do a decent job of splitting the tracks up.

Then all that matters is for you to edit the ID Tage info for the MP3's and if you wish to burn the MP3's off to Audio CD.

You can pay for this to be done, cant remember the name of the company that doe sit but you sould find a few on the interweb.

Hope that Helps

Davie.

[Conor]

couldn't you get a male to male headphone to mic cable and just record it on an MP3 player or PC?

about 50p at maplins and Bobs your proverbial

[Steven]

Originally Posted by thehappychappy

Lots of time and some software cooledit?

or a usb record deck :-) and lots of time!USB Turntable

can u say that in english????????????????????????????????

[GLOC]

Originally Posted by Conor

couldn't you get a male to male headphone to mic cable and just record it on an MP3 player or PC?

about 50p at maplins and Bobs your proverbial

And the software required?

[thehappychappy]

Sorry my first option was exactly that just not said very well.

You need a phono stereo jack to mini jack for headphone out to sound card in.

Then you need software to record the tracks (Adobe Audition or Cooledit Pro or the like)

Then you need to either A: edit the ID Tags for the MP3's or just burn them straight to CD using Nero.

[thehappychappy]

oh or buy your gran a itunes voucher and just get her to download all the tracks she wants from a legal source to the new ipod you could buy her for christmas!

[Conor]

Depends how complicated you want to make it. You could record each album into a .wav file using sound recorder (accessories->entertainment it think).

If you want you can record each track individually or you can get a sound editor (I'm sure there used to be one in Windows) to chunk it.

Then, if you want to convert it to MP3 using CDEX or similar. Do a search for 'fre sound editor' on google and you should find something easily enough.

Hope this helps

Conor

[MattS]

For free stuff have a look at audacity and the lame encoder.

It's a bit more powerful than Sound Recorder.