Timothy Jaques asks:
| I have LPs. I have a turntable and tape deck and amp. I have a computer
| with a burnable CD drive in it. At the moment that computer does not have a
| sound card in it, but that is not insurmountable given how cheap they are
| these days.
| What do I need in terms of other equipment and software, what do I have to
| do, to record the LPs and tapes onto the burnable CD. List and explain as
| if you were explaining the process to a person who had never seen a
| turntable before, let alone a burnable CD drive.
I'd wonder whether you should maybe ask only half the question: How
would one get the sound from the vinyl records into a disk file, in
MP3 or some other likely format?
This in itself would be extremely useful. The question of how to get
those disk files onto a CD could then be asked as a separate
question. I'd predict that this half will get answered quickly; I
know a number of people who are doing it.
But getting data from an analog medium into a disk file is generally
something that takes a lot of wizardry, no matter what the medium
might be. Most of the answers usually amount to "Pay me a whole lot
of money, and I'll do it for you, but I won't explain how to do it in
language that you can understand."
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