Preserved Topic: transfer stereo to pc?

A buddy of mine wants to transfer stuff like LP's (remember them?) to his pc. He'll want to burn what he transfers.....

An example: "The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads" is available on LP, but not CD. He'd like to send it from his audio player (stereo) to his pc and make a copy on cd so he can listen in the car, etc (I want a copy , too---one of the best albums ever IMO)......how can this be done? What software is needed?

Some sort of ripper?

How about video? Any difference?

[This message has been edited by heddaLettis (edited 03-24-2001).]

once again eyezayer will be no help....
you need a sound card, and you would need to trim some o da tracks i bet... but that kinda software would come with a burner or with yo sound card...

Well, this one's a bit simple really.

Since you aren't encoding for download (mp3) you only need to run an input cable from the stereo output.

You'll have an output jack on your stereo, that you need to patch into the auxilliary input jack in the back of your comp (or the front of your burner). Then you simply run a wav recording program, and let your stereo run.

You'll want a nice quiet room, since the recording will pick up EVERY vibratory sound that comes through the stylus.

Now, the big problem will be space. Each wav file will probably be in excess of 30 megs. You'll need a good hard drive for those storage spaces, UNLESS you burn directly to disc using your burner software. Careful though...this way may be faster, but it's irreparable. Screw up, or have a skip, and you'll not find it until you listen to the whole CD....so, scrap one CD-R

recording to HD first then burning is the way to go....but can take a ton of time.


No need for rippers unless you plan to encode in mpeg format. Keeping them as wavs saves you having to decode them for CD transfer as well.

Hope it helps.

Peter

hmm... also, use the shortes cable possable. I am not joking, the longer it is the more quality you can loose. And record to the HD first. I have 120 wav file in one folder that take up 5gigs.... so, yeah, it does eat HD like a piece of pie.

One other tip, run the cables from your stereo to your pc (watch the levels start with volumn down low on the stereo) If you have a line out (many times the "tape out" or "recording" line) use that. The output from your phono usually will not be at "line" level it'll be lower and the preamp on the stereo will deal with this better than most standard sound cards

There may also be 2 inputs on your sound card, many have a line and a microphone in. The microphone is much lower if you put a hot signal through it, you might (rare but possible) fry the card. Use the line in input
Usually the microphone input will have a little mic on it.


[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 03-24-2001).]

hmm, I had another thought....
When recording to PC watch the levels of your Recording Volume... Dont let it get into the Red... red is bad. Make sure it fills the green bars, but only around half way up the yellow. If it hits the red it starts to distort...

hmmm...thanks for the help, but we're still confused!!

We want to take a record, upload it (do some "magic"--encode--transfer--something or other--) and then download onto CD.

It seems that converting to MP3 is the way to go??

What software would be required for this??

Is there any other efficient way to go about this???

Are .wav files better? Should we encode to MP3?

We're lost here!!

The main point I'm getting here is that you do NOT want to encode as an MP3...since you would just have to decode to transfer to the CD anyway. So unless you plan on putting them online for download, do it as WAV files. Then you won't need anything special other than the right cables