[QUOTE=Mallory]
How do you transfer vinyl to CD? I’ve been wanting to do that for a while.
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Another Doper asked that question once, and this is what happened.
[QUOTE=Mallory]
How do you transfer vinyl to CD? I’ve been wanting to do that for a while.
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If you have a working turntable, you could just run the line out from your receiver to the line-in of your PC’s soundcard and use audio software such as Audacity to record the audio to WAV, MP3 or any other format. It should then be a simple matter to burn those files onto CD. This is what I’ve done in the past and I plan on doing some more over the weekend.
If you don’t have a working turntable, you could spring for a USB model.
I know there’s an old thread around here that goes into a lot of detail about how to optimize the recording but it’s been awhile and my searches don’t seem to be turning it up.
Another vinyl collector here: there’s a still a metric shitload of stuff that’s either not out on CD, or has been deleted from catalogue and costs an arm and a leg. There was a CS thread the other day, on someone looking to buy an old Shriekback CD, now out of print: secondhand copies are apparently going for $50; I picked up a great copy on vinyl for $2. A Flanders And Swann box set goes for $60 on CD; I got mine for another $2. A quick run through Audacity, trim out the clunks, pops and clicks, and they’re preserved forever on drive and CD. I’ve think I’ve got more vinyl now then I ever had when it was actually being issued.
How about Craigslist, or even your local pennysaver?
[QUOTE=John Carter of Mars]
My heirs can worry about what to do with my collection of vinyl records. They can have my SUN label recordings of Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison when they pry my cold, dead fingers from them! 
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Can I have first dibs on your cold, dead fingers, and all the vinyl enclosed therein?
(Long life and health to you, of course!)
Craig’s List ! Better yet- someone local can meet up with me and take the stuff. Maybe I can cover the cost of the CD Recorder device.
That thread, that thread was amazing- and pointed out everything vexing about Windows OS. Such hoops they wanted us to jump through. I bought a stand-alone CD recorder. Uses re-writable CD’s. I plan to re-use EACH ONE until it can no longer be burned into. Burn an LP, pop the RW-CD into the computer, burn in the music, pop out the RW-CD, rinse, repeat.
In related news, one of my cats threw up on my desk last night. If I hadn’t left that CD Recorder device still wrapped in layers of bubble wrapping, this thread would be in the Pit right now. :eek:
Craig’s List. I like it better than Freecycle, since it might yield me a coupla sheckels.