Hi All, First off - thanks for your patience... Hopefully this isn't a common thread, but given the expertise of the folks on these boards, I'm won't be surprised if it is...
This may be a bit off topic, but I'm hoping for some pointers. I have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1000 albums, and I'm looking to digitize them for use with my squeezebox, with a minimum of pain and discomfort. I have a Creative Labs Audigy card (probably one of the first ones made) in a box I've given over to Ubuntu as I was fed up with Windoze. Pretty good audio card, but I never really took advantage of its features. I have a few different turntables, a nd invested around $150 in a preamp (as turntables have different requirements than most other inputs). The pc I use for ripping my CD audio is a pretty non-descript machine. I put an LG DVD writer in it, but otherwise, its pretty vanilla. Works fine for the CDs I've put in so far, provided they're not completely hacked up... Here's the thing... My goal is to get my audio onto hard disk in the least painful fashion, but I don't want to sacrifice audio quality for the sake of convenience. My CD library is around 400GB at present in FLAC format, which is what I hope to use for my LP collection for the sake of consistency. So here's what I'm looking for: - pointers to the simplest way to digitize LP audio, and still maintain the highest quality recordings. - software (free, if possible for converting / tagging LP recordings to include them in my library. I'm familiar with, and use MP3Tag, EAC, and dbPowerAmp on a regular basis, so I suppose its possible that I already have the software I require, however, my experience has been that converting LPs to digitized audio is not as straightforward as you might expect... FYI - I have this amazing Jimmy Hendrix album, called 'Soundtrack to Rainbow Bridge' which I'm really keen to get converted... It has some really amazing not commonly heard tracks, including a studio version of the Spangled Banner (or is that the Star Scrambled Bammer... ;-) that really blew my mind back in the 70's - or maybe that was the red microdot acid... in any case, its certainly a keeper... Pointers greatfully accepted, and criticism taken with a grain of salt. :-) I'm open to any advice you're willing to provide. Peace! Brawny P.S. I bought my SB3 last summer, and I've been lurking ever since. I think the concept of the SP3, and the hardware implementation are both excellent. Hi to Mark Lanctot who lives nearby, and who always has a sensible word to add to any discussion (but whom I've never met in person) and Steve Taylor, who put me on to the Squeezebox, and to whom I am eternally grateful! P.P.S. For those of you who've made it this far in my post, I have a couple comments and words of advice. First, unlike me, don't post after drinking, secondly, the 70's were what the 60's wanted to be. Thirdly, don't take the brown acid ;-), and lastly, if you haven't had a good laugh lately, you should watch Up in Smoke. Again. Peace! (again!) Brawny (did I mention not to post after drinking.... ;-) P.P.P.S Are there any Zappa fans out there? I've been stuck listening to Heavy Duty Judy from "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" the last couple of days, and the trombone parts have turned into some sort of ear worm... Augh!!!! ;-) -- brawny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brawny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40894 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
