Recording my Vinyl
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FLAC.
Go straight from LP to lossless *which will lose something in the digital conversion onto the pc anyway*
That way if you want to put them on a mobile device you can convert to a lower bitrate mp3 easily with no greater loss of quality.
It's quite a bit larger, but worth it.
Simon/~Flibster
Go straight from LP to lossless *which will lose something in the digital conversion onto the pc anyway*
That way if you want to put them on a mobile device you can convert to a lower bitrate mp3 easily with no greater loss of quality.
It's quite a bit larger, but worth it.
Simon/~Flibster
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To be honest you might as well save them in WAV format and not convert at all if you want THE BEST.
A 5 minute track will be 50 meg in size.
I have no idea how big a FLAC conversion of that would be (interested to know though).
A 5 minute track will be 50 meg in size.
I have no idea how big a FLAC conversion of that would be (interested to know though).
So you'll be:
- manually recording approximately one thousand tracks
- probably wanting to top-and-tail most [if not all] to remove overly long silences
- possibly normalising these tracks [depending upon how you record them in the first place]
That's a lot of time and effort to end up with a lossy format.
Go FLAC. The savings in file space you'll get over WAV will really add up over 1000 recordings, and you'll have as perfect a backup of your vinyl as you can hope to expect [depending upon your recording methods, of course].
You can always batch downcode to mp3, ogg or some other lossy format from these FLAC 'masters' at a later date.
[EDIT: Best size/quality compromise? If you're adamant about mp3s, then the best bet would be variable bit rate [VBR] files that are roughly equivalent to 256k-320k constant bit rate. Again, not something I'd do, though]
- manually recording approximately one thousand tracks
- probably wanting to top-and-tail most [if not all] to remove overly long silences
- possibly normalising these tracks [depending upon how you record them in the first place]
That's a lot of time and effort to end up with a lossy format.
Go FLAC. The savings in file space you'll get over WAV will really add up over 1000 recordings, and you'll have as perfect a backup of your vinyl as you can hope to expect [depending upon your recording methods, of course].
You can always batch downcode to mp3, ogg or some other lossy format from these FLAC 'masters' at a later date.
[EDIT: Best size/quality compromise? If you're adamant about mp3s, then the best bet would be variable bit rate [VBR] files that are roughly equivalent to 256k-320k constant bit rate. Again, not something I'd do, though]
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