Hi Jim & other audio enthusiasts,

I normally used gramofile with an old SB-compatible Logitech card. Then
either record WAV to audio CD, or encode with lame to MP3. I recently
converted some old audio cassettes, using a cheap Sony portable radio
/ tape recorder and just running the cable from the headphone output
straight into the sound card - worked amazingly well. Depending on the
kind of music and the inter-track gaps on your analogue source medium,
gramofile does a more or less good job at auto-detecting the tracks,
but it can easily be fine-tuned manually.

I am afraid my record-player is still in a box in the shed and has not
yet been unpacked after shifting to Chch - sorry. But it would
definitely work with a pre-amp between record player and sound card.

One thing I have been wondering is whether I should really replace the
vinyl records with CDs. Although the vinyl slowly degrades by
abrasion and collecting dust, the records are still good after many
decades. This is absolutely not the case with home-burnt CD-Rs. I have
experienced failures on several CDs which were not older than three
years...

Cheers,

Helmut.


On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> Do any of you guys have a working setup with a vinyl record player
> hooked up as an input source for an ogg or mp3 encoder?
...

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