Vinyl to digital ripper
Posted by: Holty on 09 August 2010
Is there a program out there thats recommended?
Steve
Steve
The way I do it is as follows :
Put the vinyl on my LP12, record on a standalone audio CD recorder (mine's a Denon) using CDRW. You have to use the pukka CDRWs sold for audio recording, but you can use them again and again. I've got half a dozen audio CDRWs sitting on the shelf for this purpose. DON'T erase or reformat them on your PC when you've copied them as below. This is because I find that for some reason this often seems to render them unusable on the audio CD recorder.
I used to have a Philip audio CD recorder, for which there was little "bodge" enabling you to use ordinary CDRs or CDRWs, but alas, this doesn't work on the Denon 1500 I currently use.
Why don't I put the track points on the CDRW as I create it? Well, I'd have to sit there poised to insert them at the appropriate time, and life is too short.
Finalise the CDRW on the audio CD recorder.
Take it to my Windoze laptop. Rip as wav. using whichever software you like. I tend to use the Rip function in Roxio Creator. No particular reason, just what I'm used to.
Then use Audacity (free download). To chop the wav. file into tracks. Save them as wav. if you intend to burn them to ordinary CD, to MP3 etc if you have other ideas. Erase the recordings from your CDRW and proceed to the next LP. Why Audacity? I prefer its editting interface to that in Roxio Creator.
I do the same for ripping cassettes to digital format. I hate to say it, but it's about the only think my Nakamichi is used for these days. Certainly the Nak has put an awful lot of time in copying my Audiobooks into digital format.
A little convoluted, but as SWMBO would "go spare" if I tried to do the recording in the living room where the LP12 lives, it's domestically much more acceptable. Also, IMO the Denon CD recorder has a better ADC than my laptop programs, so the end result is better.
I have also, on occasion, when not doing something like vinyl which needs RIAA equalisation, ripped direct to my laptop. That's using either Roxio Creator or the free Audacity. However, that does tend to tie the laptop up for the duration of the rip. This has usually been when I was dubbing something on my "other" system. (see profile) As an example I used this method when I wanted to get onto CD that lovely Sarah McLachlan song from Toy Story 2. Buggered if I was going to pay for the entire soundtrack for that one song, which never seems to have appeared on any of her albums. If it had been available on its own, I would have bought it.
BTW, if you've never used Audacity, it's one of the best and most useful pieces of free software I've ever come across.
Put the vinyl on my LP12, record on a standalone audio CD recorder (mine's a Denon) using CDRW. You have to use the pukka CDRWs sold for audio recording, but you can use them again and again. I've got half a dozen audio CDRWs sitting on the shelf for this purpose. DON'T erase or reformat them on your PC when you've copied them as below. This is because I find that for some reason this often seems to render them unusable on the audio CD recorder.
I used to have a Philip audio CD recorder, for which there was little "bodge" enabling you to use ordinary CDRs or CDRWs, but alas, this doesn't work on the Denon 1500 I currently use.
Why don't I put the track points on the CDRW as I create it? Well, I'd have to sit there poised to insert them at the appropriate time, and life is too short.
Finalise the CDRW on the audio CD recorder.
Take it to my Windoze laptop. Rip as wav. using whichever software you like. I tend to use the Rip function in Roxio Creator. No particular reason, just what I'm used to.
Then use Audacity (free download). To chop the wav. file into tracks. Save them as wav. if you intend to burn them to ordinary CD, to MP3 etc if you have other ideas. Erase the recordings from your CDRW and proceed to the next LP. Why Audacity? I prefer its editting interface to that in Roxio Creator.
I do the same for ripping cassettes to digital format. I hate to say it, but it's about the only think my Nakamichi is used for these days. Certainly the Nak has put an awful lot of time in copying my Audiobooks into digital format.
A little convoluted, but as SWMBO would "go spare" if I tried to do the recording in the living room where the LP12 lives, it's domestically much more acceptable. Also, IMO the Denon CD recorder has a better ADC than my laptop programs, so the end result is better.
I have also, on occasion, when not doing something like vinyl which needs RIAA equalisation, ripped direct to my laptop. That's using either Roxio Creator or the free Audacity. However, that does tend to tie the laptop up for the duration of the rip. This has usually been when I was dubbing something on my "other" system. (see profile) As an example I used this method when I wanted to get onto CD that lovely Sarah McLachlan song from Toy Story 2. Buggered if I was going to pay for the entire soundtrack for that one song, which never seems to have appeared on any of her albums. If it had been available on its own, I would have bought it.
BTW, if you've never used Audacity, it's one of the best and most useful pieces of free software I've ever come across.
thanks
quote:Nice offer but hardly worth it. I use a PHILIPS music CDR. Just like you I have 10 music CD-RWs sitting by the machine. Just rotate them by alternate finalising and then erasing once ripped.
I must admit I don't bother to split LP sides into individual tracks just rip as is. I guess that is because I am so used to listening thru' at least the whole side of an LP. It is bit dodgy trying to raise and lower a wobbly ARO arm for individual track play.
That's why you use something like Audacity - you split the tracks with it by selecting contents of say "Track 1" from your digital copy of the whole LP side, save it as a separate wav. file ... etc, etc.
Incidentally, why would you need to raise/lower the ARO? Just press the appropriate button on the Philips remote to insert the track break as you're recording it. But, as I said, easier to it afterwards in an editor such as Audacity.
Err...I do realise that. i was just explaining why I don't bother even though I have software ( Roxio) that can do itquote:That's why you use something like Audacity - you split the tracks with it by selecting contents of say "Track 1" from your digital copy of the whole LP side, save it as a separate wav. file ... etc, etc.
. The point about the ARO was in relation to tha way I normally play LPs and since I am used to listening to a whole side at a time I have no desire to split it into tracks. 
