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Anyone else burning all their Vinyl to WAV files and to their iTunes?

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Man, it's great to hear some of my old vinyl again...even the scratches are in "just the right places"! :laughing

I'm using this system, ($70 for hardware/software assuming you already have a turntable), which works very very well, though a bit time consuming if you want to get it just "right," (ie. with track dividers should you burn to CD or copy to iTunes...and then the track naming in iTunes takes a little time as well).

Works great...results are outstanding.

I record whilst wasting my time on BARF! :laughing

http://www.dak.com/Reviews/2020Story.cfm

Anyone have another system they're happy with?
 
This: http://www.tuneupmedia.com/ may speed up the file naming and such on iTunes.

Why into WAV? Not a higher quality file... or does it not matter with the source?
 
I've already converted all my VHS tapes to digital. That's the only analog stuff I had to convert. For music, and fortunately I only liked popular stuff, I find it just easier to rebuy it.
 
BigB said:
This: http://www.tuneupmedia.com/ may speed up the file naming and such on iTunes.

Why into WAV? Not a higher quality file... or does it not matter with the source?
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I thought WAV at 16 bit uncompressed 44.1kHz was CD quality?

It was either WAV or MP3.

Sounds great in any event.

The good news is once I record the vinyl I'm giving much of it away free to a friend of my daughter's whose huge into vinyl, (I guess it's making a bit of a revival with the 20 something set which is great).

Funny how pristine my wife's library of Bob Dylan albums is compared to my library of such things as Black Sabbath which I used to play at parties when I was drunk...despite my having state of the art turntables! :laughing

Turntable + drunks = scratches and schmutz! :laughing

The good old days! :thumbup
 
Been looking at these for years for a xmas gift for my father. He's got a huge library of vinyl that he doesn't listen to anymore, lots of bootlegs, unreleased stuff, and albums that they will not put on CD.

He'll have to wait til there's nothing else I"d rather buy I guess
 
GAJ said:
Anyone else burning all their Vinyl to WAV files and to their iTunes?
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No, why would anyone do this? If you want to listen to the albums why don't you just listen to the albums themselves instead of a degraded quality digital facsimile?

Even for archival purposes vinyl is far more resilient than any digital medium.
 
johnkol said:
No, why would anyone do this? If you want to listen to the albums why don't you just listen to the albums themselves instead of a degraded quality digital facsimile?

Even for archival purposes vinyl is far more resilient than any digital medium.
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Because it's a shit-pile easier to carry around 1000 songs on your phone than it is to carry around a stack of vinyl, a turn table, amp and speakers. :party

I realize that listening to digitized tracks isn't the same as listening to vinyl on a good hi-fi, but then there's that whole portability thing. I don't listen to my fon when I'm sitting at home in front of the stereo.
 
started doing this a couple years ago with all my old punk 7 inches, as well as the rest of the vinyl i own. I just bought one of the record players that will convert it for you and turned everything into MP3's. I kept the vinyl though so when i feel nostalgic i can listen to it on my old technic 1200 :teeth
 
Yup, did most of mine several years ago. The new USB turntables are sweet, but you can still do it with any old turntable and receiver that supports a tape deck. Just hook the Tape Rec connection to the Line In of your soundcard. I used an old Duel turntable and Marantz receiver.
 
aminalmutha said:
Because it's a shit-pile easier to carry around 1000 songs on your phone than it is to carry around a stack of vinyl, a turn table, amp and speakers.
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OK, I have a genuine question: when do you listen to tunes on your portable device? I really cannot think of a moment during the day where I could do that: on my commute to work I listen to CDs in my car. At work obviously I cannot listen to anything. Commute back home same as before, and when I get home I have my stereo to enjoy.

I can see how portable tunes can be useful for people that commute by public transport, or for students that have some dead time between classes, but these are a minority of the population.

So I'm clearly missing something here.
 
johnkol said:
OK, I have a genuine question: when do you listen to tunes on your portable device? I really cannot think of a moment during the day where I could do that: on my commute to work I listen to CDs in my car. At work obviously I cannot listen to anything. Commute back home same as before, and when I get home I have my stereo to enjoy.

I can see how portable tunes can be useful for people that commute by public transport, or for students that have some dead time between classes, but these are a minority of the population.

So I'm clearly missing something here.
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People that work in cube farms pretty much have 8 hours a day to listen to music. :laughing
 
johnkol said:
No, why would anyone do this? If you want to listen to the albums why don't you just listen to the albums themselves instead of a degraded quality digital facsimile?

Even for archival purposes vinyl is far more resilient than any digital medium.
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I'm only giving away the vinyl albums I'm lukewarm about, but burning them to digital for convenience.

I have my Dad's old Revox turntable with moving coil cartridge in my main listening room to play my vinyl any old time through my Usher speakers.

Nice to listen to old vinyl in the car on long trips...hard to do without burning it to digital...though I am aware the earliest form of music inside a car was, indeed, a flop down turntable which my car lacks! :laughing
 
johnkol said:
OK, I have a genuine question: when do you listen to tunes on your portable device? I really cannot think of a moment during the day where I could do that: on my commute to work I listen to CDs in my car. At work obviously I cannot listen to anything. Commute back home same as before, and when I get home I have my stereo to enjoy.

I can see how portable tunes can be useful for people that commute by public transport, or for students that have some dead time between classes, but these are a minority of the population.

So I'm clearly missing something here.
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Both of my cars accept input from iPods...even my 1994 MX5, (albeit with aftermarket stereo).

I rarely listen to my iPod with headphones; generally only plugged into the car.
 
johnkol said:
OK, I have a genuine question: when do you listen to tunes on your portable device? I really cannot think of a moment during the day where I could do that: on my commute to work I listen to CDs in my car. At work obviously I cannot listen to anything. Commute back home same as before, and when I get home I have my stereo to enjoy.

I can see how portable tunes can be useful for people that commute by public transport, or for students that have some dead time between classes, but these are a minority of the population.

So I'm clearly missing something here.
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At the gym
Jogging
Doing yardwork
At my desk and don't want to disturb others
Sometimes listen to podcasts while driving
 
GAJ said:
I'm only giving away the vinyl albums I'm lukewarm about, but burning them to digital for convenience.
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I'm sure the RIAA will be along shortly to slap a lawsuit on you. After all, you can't even use the defense of them being an archival copy if you no longer own the original. :laughing
 
I walk an hour every day with my iPod at lunchtime, and I can tune in whilst in my cube, though I tend to use my computer for that.

As for the system. I got a turntable that plugs into iMic etc. The thing that stopped me is a long-term bad relationship with Audacity. Over the years, I have had a very hard time figuring out correct sampling rate, suffering freezes and such as both my OS and Audacity versions changed. The thought of putting on a record, starting Audacity etc just seemed like it wouldn't work. My question is: do you run a single sound file for a whole side of an album or stop and start each track? The former seems like it would result in too big of a file. the latter would be a hassle. Curious to know. I have so many computer project work (graphic arts, ,music notation, songbook designs, that I am hesitant to ascend new learning curves in what little time I have in the evening.
 
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