# Turntable to Transfer LP's to Digital: Good Experience?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turntable-to-transfer-lps-to-digital-good-experience/522018>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 21, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turntable-to-transfer-lps-to-digital-good-experience/522018 "2009-12-21T01:57:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turntable-to-transfer-lps-to-digital-good-experience/522018/21 "2009-12-22T21:20:40Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> The software I have tries to split tracks this way, but it is less than successful. A lot of the integrated systems I see seem to be aimed at the less technically sophisticated (you don’t need a confusing computer!) and I don’t see how you’d even do manual intervention in that setup.

Yeah, seeing how my software can’t split record tracks, I wonder if the integrated systems try to split tracks, or if they just record the record as a whole.

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**Author:** ![HISSNLISSN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed8c4c/32.png) [@HISSNLISSN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HISSNLISSN)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turntable-to-transfer-lps-to-digital-good-experience/522018/22 "2009-12-22T23:55:04Z")

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Keep in mind that by some estimates (and in 2009, some practical, real life data), the average shelf life of a CD-R is right around 10 years. Hard drives can also be finicky.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Whatever you do with your archive, be sure to back up the most important stuff on multiple formats.

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