Re: [SLUG] vinyl conversions

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:10:28 EST


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On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:04 am, you wrote:
> you need to connect your turntable to your sound card. Make sure the
> connection is NOT going through a pre-amp or you will blow out your
> sound card. (personal experience). Start recording on the box, and then
> start the turntable. There is a lot of audio editing software out there.
> You'll then create .wav files. If you want just normal audio CDs, you
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which will be huge! 650 MB for 10 songs, aka your average cd. Hope you have
some serious disk space!

Russell

> can then use something like XCDRoast and just burn them. .wav is raw
> audio. They need to be between 128 and 192 kbps or they will sound
> weird.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Swider [mailto:swider@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: SLUG Suncoast Linux Users Group
> Subject: [SLUG] vinyl conversions
>
>
> I'm a newbie and don't get much time to become much more so I've created
>
> a task, the completion of which through linux should teach me some
> things along the way. Now I have to learn now.
>
> I have a bunch of old LPs. And a turntable. Really. And an extra desktop
>
> running Mandrake. I also have a spare CD burner that I've never
> connected to the linux box. You see where I'm going. Anyone have any
> suggestions on how best I can convert my LPs to mp3s (or other)? I'll
> eventually have to create a step-by-step for myself because I'll have to
>
> do this once in a while and for a long while (I have about 400 LPs). I
> am a blank slate.

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