First of all, I'm cross-posting this because I'm not sure if this is
more of a "computer" question or an "audio" question. Please forgive me
if I'm in the wrong newsgroup.

I tried to "Goggle" on how to make music CD's from my old albums, but I
still have a few questions. I have read that I can use a freeware
package called "Audacity" to make the CD's. I will research on my own as
to how to use the software, but before I go any further I need help
understanding the higher-level "basic concept" of what I'm about to try.
Also, I'm not looking for high-end results here, I just want to use
these "oldies" albums to make decent music CD's to listen to. Here are
some questions that I have:

1. Is this simply a process of running my turntable output into my
sound card input and using the software to transfer the output into a
file on my hard drive and then burn a CD?

2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?

3. Do I need to buy an expensive sound card to do this? My computer
uses the Abit NFS-7 with integrated Realtek ALC650. I'm on a tight
budget so I'd like to use my existing NFS-7 audio if possible, but not
if it would result in poor results. I'm not an audiophile, just an old
guy who likes his "oldies" to listen to.

Thanks in advance for your help.

- David Kistner

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:26:26 GMT, David Kistner wrote:

2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?

Not going to happen. Decks that old work very poorly reading CDRs. Replace
the dinosour.

TCS wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:26:26 GMT, David Kistner wrote:


2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?


Not going to happen. Decks that old work very poorly reading CDRs. Replace
the dinosour.

Thanks for the information. I can replace the older CD deck if that's
the only problem. Could you help me with my other questions too.
Thanks in advance:

1. Is this simply a process of running my turntable output into my
sound card input and using the software to transfer the output into a
file on my hard drive and then burn a CD?

2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?

3. Do I need to buy an expensive sound card to do this? My computer
uses the Abit NFS-7 with integrated Realtek ALC650. I'm on a tight
budget so I'd like to use my existing NFS-7 audio if possible, but not
if it would result in poor results. I'm not an audiophile, just an old
guy who likes his "oldies" to listen to.

Thanks in advance for your help.

- David Kistner

What software are you using to encode music files and burn CDs? I like
Nero 6 for that purpose. It has a utility called Nero Soundtrax
designed for the purpose which you inquired about.

Oldies sound good to old fellas like me in 192kbps mp3 format
.....probably because we lost most of our hearing for the real high
stuff by age 40, and we already bought and paid for that stuff ten
times already and we won't get fooled again...

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:49:59 GMT, David Kistner wrote:
TCS wrote:
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:26:26 GMT, David Kistner wrote:


2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?


Not going to happen. Decks that old work very poorly reading CDRs. Replace
the dinosour.

Thanks for the information. I can replace the older CD deck if that's
the only problem. Could you help me with my other questions too.
Thanks in advance:

Easy enough to test. Use your CD software to copy an audio CD. If it works,
great. If not, replace the deck.

1. Is this simply a process of running my turntable output into my
sound card input and using the software to transfer the output into a
file on my hard drive and then burn a CD?

Yes. That simple. Turntable - phono preamp - sound card line input.
I used an external a-d, but I'm a bit of a snob. With $1400 worth of
turntable/cartridge/phono preamp/record cleaner, I wanted something a bit
better.


2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?
Save to .wav. Burn a data CD of the .wav for archival purposes. Make a
"music cd" with the wav file to play on your cd player.



3. Do I need to buy an expensive sound card to do this? My computer
uses the Abit NFS-7 with integrated Realtek ALC650. I'm on a tight
budget so I'd like to use my existing NFS-7 audio if possible, but not
if it would result in poor results. I'm not an audiophile, just an old
guy who likes his "oldies" to listen to.

You can get an extremely good sound card for under $100. m-audio makes
great cards. turtle beach used to but I think they're out of business.
Stay away from creative, especially the soundblaster live. The SBLive
does so much processing that it's barely FM quality.

http://www.pcavtech.com is a good site for sound card information.

--
Tzortzakakis Dimitri?s
major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician
FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker
dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr
? "David Kistner" ?????? ??? ??????
news:CMHzd.9738$h.1969@trnddc04...
First of all, I'm cross-posting this because I'm not sure if this is
more of a "computer" question or an "audio" question. Please forgive me
if I'm in the wrong newsgroup.

I tried to "Goggle" on how to make music CD's from my old albums, but I
still have a few questions. I have read that I can use a freeware
package called "Audacity" to make the CD's. I will research on my own as
to how to use the software, but before I go any further I need help
understanding the higher-level "basic concept" of what I'm about to try.
Also, I'm not looking for high-end results here, I just want to use
these "oldies" albums to make decent music CD's to listen to. Here are
some questions that I have:

1. Is this simply a process of running my turntable output into my
sound card input and using the software to transfer the output into a
file on my hard drive and then burn a CD?

not exactly.you must use the tape rec out jacks of your amplifier
2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?
..wav

3. Do I need to buy an expensive sound card to do this? My computer
uses the Abit NFS-7 with integrated Realtek ALC650. I'm on a tight
budget so I'd like to use my existing NFS-7 audio if possible, but not
if it would result in poor results. I'm not an audiophile, just an old
guy who likes his "oldies" to listen to.

no, you can have excellent results with your existing configuration, as I
did with my celeron 2.4/QDI P4 848 onboard audio/hitachi deskstar 80 GB 7200
rpm/512 MB DDR/geforce 4 mx 440 agp 8x budget computer
Thanks in advance for your help.

- David Kistner

"David Kistner" a écrit dans le message de news:
CMHzd.9738$h.1969@trnddc04...
First of all, I'm cross-posting this because I'm not sure if this is
more of a "computer" question or an "audio" question. Please forgive me
if I'm in the wrong newsgroup.

I tried to "Goggle" on how to make music CD's from my old albums, but I
still have a few questions. I have read that I can use a freeware
package called "Audacity" to make the CD's. I will research on my own as
to how to use the software, but before I go any further I need help
understanding the higher-level "basic concept" of what I'm about to try.
Also, I'm not looking for high-end results here, I just want to use
these "oldies" albums to make decent music CD's to listen to. Here are
some questions that I have:

1. Is this simply a process of running my turntable output into my
sound card input and using the software to transfer the output into a
file on my hard drive and then burn a CD?

2. What file format do I ultimately need to save my album output in,
for my CD to be readable on my older CD player (a 13 year old
Harman/Cardon)?

3. Do I need to buy an expensive sound card to do this? My computer
uses the Abit NFS-7 with integrated Realtek ALC650. I'm on a tight
budget so I'd like to use my existing NFS-7 audio if possible, but not
if it would result in poor results. I'm not an audiophile, just an old
guy who likes his "oldies" to listen to.

Thanks in advance for your help.

- David Kistner

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Might be some general help here :

http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html


--
Allen Reny
http://www.a-reny.com

Not going to happen. Decks that old work very poorly reading CDRs.

Not necessarily. At least try it first. Even if it doesn't work, just a
cleaning might perk it right up. There's nothing inherently wrong with the
vast majority of older players with regard to playing CD-R's. The discs were
designed originally with just these players in mind.
CD-RW's are another matter.

Mark Z.


"TCS" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:26:26 GMT, David Kistner
wrote:

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Buzz wrote:


==============================================
Might be some general help here :

http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html


--
Allen Reny
http://www.a-reny.com




Thank you Allen. That's a wonderful site that helped tremendously.
By-the-way, I was also very appreciative of all of the excellent advice
I received in this newsgroup. I was a bit worried people would flame me
for asking stupid questions (I figured everyone probably knew how to do
this but me). But everyone was GREAT to help me get started. I feel I
can do this now, and not spend a lot of money. Thanks again (to
everyone who helped me today.

- David Kistner

"David Kistner" wrote in message
news:e3Uzd.17372$_62.896@trnddc01...
Buzz wrote:
http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html
--
Allen Reny
http://www.a-reny.com

Thank you Allen. That's a wonderful site that helped tremendously.
By-the-way, I was also very appreciative of all of the excellent advice
I received in this newsgroup. I was a bit worried people would flame me
for asking stupid questions (I figured everyone probably knew how to do
this but me). But everyone was GREAT to help me get started. I feel I
can do this now, and not spend a lot of money. Thanks again (to
everyone who helped me today.

- David Kistner

David,

I don't know the software you're intending to use, but if there's an option
for you to create CD Text it might be worth you taking that into account
when saving your .wav files to hdd. I'm very new to this, use Nero 6 which
does CD text when making audio CDs, and have just discovered that my
new CD player displays CD Text, and in addition to displaying the disc title
(added by Nero), it will also display the track title which it copies from
the .wav filename on the hdd. So after capturing your .wav files, it's
worth
renaming them with composer, song title or movement no. etc. This info
will then be displayed when your CD Text capable CD player goes to the
next track
(Of over 140 commercial CDs, many of which were bought recently, only 1 uses
CD text to tell me what the track title is.)

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

david
i am using audacity under linux recording vinyl onto cd

i used to take the rec output into my soundblaster card--could not
however recorde from my tape deck


got another amplifier--pioneer sa 6500 2 --i now have no output from rec
out--got teh amp on auction

but i can take the output from phones into sound card--now can record
tape or vinyl


i save my stuff as org varis--workds great in my cd player

seems that wav aalso works


in audacity make sudre you select the appropriate input like line1, mic etc

problem i have had is consistancy in sound volumn--i have found the
sound slider about 0.7 ( what ever that means0 has helped


reading about enhancements normalization or equilization as been confusing

all my friends like the way my stuff sounds


hth

peter


and yes this has been teh most friendly site i have found

Try "wave repair" shareware program.

Will break albums into tracks (builds cue sheets) for Nero and other
burn programs.

Do a google search for wave repair.

Perhaps "How to turn vinyl LPs into CDs" at
http://www.mp3.com/tech/tutorials_00000002.php will also be useful.
- --

regards,
Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video
http://www.bhphotovideo.com