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Making music CD's from my old LP's
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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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. |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 $100. m-audio makes great cards. turtle beach used to but I think they're out of business. Stay away from creative, especially the soundblaster live. The SBLive does so much processing that it's barely FM quality. http://www.pcavtech.com is a good site for sound card information. |
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-- Tzortzakakis Dimitri?s major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr ? "David Kistner" ?????? ??? ?????? news:CMHzd.9738$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 |
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"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 ============================================== Might be some general help here : http://www.a-reny.com/iexplorer/restauration.html -- Allen Reny http://www.a-reny.com |
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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 ... On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:26:26 GMT, David Kistner wrote: snip |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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