Tape/Vinal to MP3.

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Hi.
A bloke at work wants me to explain to him about music/mp3s.
Having successfully (i hope), ive taught him to rip & burn a CD in WMP, as its pretty idiot proof.

What he wants to do now is convert his tape & vinal collections to mp3/wma.
I know he needs a audio cable going from his tape/vinal player to the line-in on his PC, but what i want to know, is that is there a program that makes it really really simple for him to do this.

Thanks in advance all. :)
 
Just need a basic wave edit program to record the music to wavs, then use something like MusicMatch Jukebox to convert to MP3s. There's probably better ways of doing it though.

Does he have a preamp for the turntable? (assuming it's a seperate) The output from a turntable is way below line level and very tinny. Most likely he has a phono preamp stage in his integrated amp, but it might not have line-out.

If the turntable is just built into an all-in-one system then it's not a problem.
 
Found this on hybrids website,while talking about mastering new album.I know a few folk who still prefer to listen on vinyl for the warmth

Such is the level of dedication to John's art, he's been known to compare the difference in sound between two connection leads just to get the perfect signal path to record through! One fact we learnt today is that mathmatically, analogue recordings have 5 times the amount of information compared to a 16bit CD. A low quality MP3 has roughly 10 times less information than a CD, so the track on your MP3 player has about a 50th of the information that was originally recorded. I think it's about time to start playing vinyl again...
 
I've *heard* vinyl is superior to cds for the first few times they're played and then due to the needle rubbing over the pits etc the quality slowly lessens to below cd quality.
 
Don't think this thread was intended as a vinyl vs CD vs MP3 discussion, but nevertheless while some people who work in the music industry who have acutely developed hearing may be able to tell the difference, a regular poster on these forum ran an experiment (a blind test) recently comparing CD to various bit rate MP3s and most people couldn't tell the difference once the bit rate reached 192 kbps and above. He basically prepared an audio CD in cd image format for people to download and it had 6 or so versions of the same track on, the original CD track, and then 320, 256, 192, 160, 128 and 64 kbps MP3s or something like that.

I know I didn't sucessfully distinguish CD from 320 from 256 on decent grado headphones.
 
Audacity is free wave recorder/editor and audiograbber is a great free cd ripper and encoder,just remember to grab the lame.dll to encode your mp3s with.
You might be able to grab some free vinyl clean up plug ins from http://www.kvraudio.com/

Theres a free guide here that`ll show him what to do,you don`t need to use any other software bar the ones i`ve pointed out
http://www.br0wn.co.uk/vinyltocd.htm

Why not discuss vinyl fish? you gave him a reccomendation on software anyway i just thought it was an interesting point
 
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luminous said:
Why not discuss vinyl fish? you gave him a reccomendation on software anyway i just thought it was an interesting point
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Fair enough, just thought it wasn't what the OP was asking about. Discuss away :)

Haven't heard vinyl myself for probably 20 years and even then it was just a cheapo system, never heard hi-fi quality vinyl. I'm curious to hear it someday.
 
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