You two Bills, thanks so very much. I am storing your info until I get
this all digested.It sounds wonderful!. I guess these younger people
don't even own any LPs anymore, and I have hundreds of them still. Of
course I also still have these famous reel players. I have got whole
operas on them. I tell you, I could spend my life with this computer
and then some --
Marta
Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin a.D..
On Mar 20, 2004, at 22:06, Bill King wrote:
> on 03/20/04 21:41, Marta Edie at mledie at insightbb.com wrote:
>
>> People, are you talking about putting songs from the old records
>> 33rpms
>> unto a CD? I did not know that could be done by individuals like us! I
>> wish I could find a way to do that, but I guess it would be easier and
>> cheaper to buy these old labels on the new CDs that are springing up
>> everywhere now. But I do have some special old records with German
>> actors on them which are not reproduced. So let me hear of the
>> possibilities. I had never heard of ripping vinyl.
>> Marta
>
>
> Marta,
>
> We are talking about old 33 rpm vinyl LPs; in my case, LPs from the
> late
> 1950s through the early 1970s.
>
> All that is required is an iMic, which is a device to connect the
> analog
> audio from a turntable to the USB input of your Mac.
>
> Then download the free software to convert the analog signals to
> digital
> form. This software is Final Vinyl.
>
> The iMic and Final Vinyl are available from Griffin Technology
> (www.griffintechnology.com). The iMic as best I remember is around
> $35.
>
> Usually, the LPs are not converted one song at a time but one side at a
> time. Then another piece of software is used to separate each side
> into
> individual songs. I think this can be done with Final Vinyl but a free
> program, Audacity, would be a better choice.
>
> Audacity is available from www.audacity.sourceforge.net ( Not
> soundforge as
> in my earlier post.)
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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